Supporting Cognitive Competence Development in Virtual Classrooms - Personal Learning Management and Evaluation Using Pedagogical Agents

Self-directed learning with learning management systems can be intelligently supported and enriched using available log data in combination with detailed competence ontologies. The approach described here implements a mechanism to adaptively generate quizzes for self-assessment in a Moodle environment. The underlying agent architecture uses a tuple space in the role of a blackboard. The approach has been worked out with a distance course on Genetics.