Title :
Interactive pathway design for learning through agent and library augmented shared knowledge areas (ALASKA)
Author :
Hamilton, Eric ; DiGiano, Chris ; Cole, Ron ; Ward, Wayne ; LaBine, Dave
Author_Institution :
US Air Force Acad., USA
Abstract :
This paper outlines a recently funded NSF-funded effort to integrate three learning technologies (perceptual agents; collaborative workspaces; and digital libraries). Each has emerged and matured over the past decade and each has presented compelling and oftentimes moving opportunities to alter educational practice and to render learning more effective. The project seeks a novel way to blend these technologies and to create and test a new model for human-machine partnership in learning settings. The innovation we are prototyping in this project creates an applet-rich shared space whereby a pedagogical agent at each learner´s station functions as an instructional assistant to the teacher or professor and tutor to the student. The platform is intended to open a series of new - and instructionally potent nteractive pathways.
Keywords :
cooperative systems; digital libraries; groupware; intelligent tutoring systems; agent library augmented shared knowledge areas; collaborative workspaces; digital library; heterogeneous network; human-machine partnership; instructional assistant; interactive pathway design; multitier system; pedagogical agent; perceptual agents; Animation; Collaborative work; International collaboration; Man machine systems; Prototypes; Software libraries; Space stations; Space technology; Technological innovation; Testing; applets; collaborative workspace; heterogeneous network; multi-tier system; pedagogical agents;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2005. PerCom 2005 Workshops. Third IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2300-5
DOI :
10.1109/PERCOMW.2005.41