This paper presents the results that we have been achieving with our research involving educational environments based on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) architecture using a MAS (Multi-Agent System approach. A general guideline was idealized to be use as a reference for our research group to design and to implement intelligent educational software. Specially, interactive educational softwar...

Researchers had recently begun to investigate various techniques to help learners to improve learning effects using e-learning systems. In this paper, we propose an e-learning architecture with a recommendation module consisting of several different kinds of pedagogical agents which actively participate in learning processes, provoking learners and motivating them to learn more effectively. Dif...

Research into and practice of Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) have been increasing during the last two decades. These have focused on providing sustainability education to future generations of professionals. In this context, there has been considerable progress in the incorporation of SD in universities’ curricula. Most of these efforts have focussed on the design and deliv...

Technological advancements have improved the capabilities of pedagogical agents to communicate with students. However, an increased use in learning environments calls for a deeper understanding student–agent communication assess effectiveness learning. This study is two-phase systematic review scientific papers on agent research published between 2010 and 2020, including original papers. In fir...

In this chapter, it is argued that the scope of simulation pedagogy can be extended beyond the medical health field with the development of actor agents on virtual stages. The literature on animated pedagogical agents is reviewed with a focus on embodied intelligence, and in particular, conversational ability. The embedded intelligence of virtual worlds is also reviewed, including the deploymen...

abstract the present study aims to evaluate efl course contents used in language schools and institutes in teh-ran. to that end, 230 participants in tehran were conveniently sampled. at the outset of the study, two questionnaires were given to all groups, and according to their responses, the data were analyzed. each of the questionnaires was given to participants individually. each group had...

In the last few years there has been a strong growth of interest in pedagogical agents. Typically, these agents are represented to learners as simulated beings (dogs, bugs, ants, humans) existing in some virtual environment. Along with this new way of communicating with children there has been a corresponding rise of interest in emotional agents, agents that manifest some behaviour based on an ...

Animated pedagogical agents have become popular in multimedia learning with combined delivery of verbal and non-verbal forms of information. In order to reduce unnecessary cognitive load caused by such multiple forms of information and also to foster generative cognitive processing, multimedia design principles with social cues are suggested (Mayer, 2014a). This study presents the design model ...

The existing intelligent tutoring systems available integrate various tutorial strategies, to improve the acquisition of knowledge. However, none of them are concerned with the role that the learner’s emotions can play. The design of a ITS which takes account of these emotions can be now considered using intelligent agents. This article deals with such an experiment and its results. We show in ...

The paper presents an overview of arguments for and against visual naturalism in virtual humanlike agents, with a focus on pedagogical settings, concluding that there is: (i) a need for a distinction between static and dynamic qualities in the visual appearance of virtual agents; (ii) little general support for visual naturalism in virtual humanlike agents; and (iii) a definite need for more em...