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Dear members
New discussion starts on Monday 28th September. Please go through the
pre-discussion summary below and browse through the related links this
weekend to get background picture of the discussion. Professor Scott
Overmyer, our moderator for this discussion, will start the discussion
by sending his perspective on the subject to the list.
Regards.
Kinshuk.
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Title: If only my intelligent pedagogical agent could ... !
Moderator & Summariser:
Scott Overmyer, Associate Professor, Drexel University, USA
Time schedule:
Discussion: 28 Sept. - 7 Oct. 98
Summing-up: 8 Oct. - 9 Oct. 98
Pre-discussion summary:
This discussion is to talk about the requirements for an intelligent
pedagogical agent, and it's role in an overall pedagogical strategy
for distance or other on-online education. Recognizing that there are
domain-specific requirements for pedagogical agents, perhaps it would
be possible for us to arrive at a set of basic functional capabilities
that are common to all or most agents. It would be interesting to
brainstorm a "wish-list" of capabilities that we would all like
intelligent agents to be able to do, and then partition the list into
those things we can currently do, will be able to do in the forseeable
future, and those capabilities that may never be possible. We could then
try to fit those capabilities into an overall pedagogical strategy for
distance education. It's a large topic, and this start could provide a
bit of structure for future discussions on pedagogical agents.
A few interesting related links to stimulate discussion:
The IntelliMedia Initiative:
http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/eos/users/l/lester/www/imedia/
Virtual Environments for Training:
http://www.isi.edu/isd/VET/vet-body.html
WebPersona: A Life-Like Presentation Agent for Educational Applications
on the World-Wide Web:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~plb/AIED97_workshop/Andre/Andre.html
Opportunities for human-computer collaboration through intelligent agents:
http://www.uta.fi/~ph/papers/EuroAIED96/node2.html
Pedagogy: Pedagogical Issues Concerning Remote Work and Learning:
http://granite.cyg.net/~jblackmo/diglib/peda.html
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