Talking in Class: the Roles of Software Agents and Other Participants in the Social Construction of Knowledge within Online Learning Environments
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Our current enthusiasm for online education leaves unanswered a number of questions regarding the social interactions that mediate learning within these new environments. This paper explores some of these issues in relation both to the human participants and to the roles of pedagogical software agents in the electronic classroom.
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