This thesis is a comprehensive study of collaborative problem solving, its advantages and pitfalls, but mainly its improvement by autonomous dynamic reconfiguration. Autonomous dynamic reconfiguration deals with two common problems in collaborative problem solving – high communication effort and poor problem solving results because of restricted overview. The main idea of autonomous dynamic rec...

Even though collaboration in peer learning has been shown to have a positive impact for students, there has been little research into collaborative peer learning dialogues. We analyze such dialogues in order to derive a model of knowledge co-construction that incorporates initiative and the balance of initiative. This model will be embedded in an artificial agent that will collaborate with stud...

This study aims to develop an assessment instrument that is able measure collaboration and problem solving abilities in project-based physics learning valid, reliable practical. type of research Research Development by adapting 7 stages development from Borg Gall. Product expert validation was carried out assess aspects construction, substance language, the results were 87.85% with very valid c...

High-school students’ understanding of science as a result of using the RiverWeb Water Quality Simulator (WQS), a Web-based water management simulation, is described. Eight student pairs participated in a series of science activities, which revolved around using the WQS to explore the impact of land use on water quality. Students received scaffolded pedagogical support from several teachers whi...

INTRODUCTION This work addresses the problem of helping learners develop concepts and skills needed to be productive in the fast-changing technical workplace. It marries the kind of informal, on-demand learning preferred by workplace professionals and advocated by learning theorists with the support for learning at a distance afforded by networked computing environments (Schlager, Means, O’Day,...

Collaboration is an important problem-solving skill; however, novice collaboration generally benefits from some kind of support. One possibility for supporting productive conversations between collaborators is to encourage pairs of students to provide explanations for their problem-solving steps. To test this possibility, we contrasted individuals who were instructed to self-explain problem-sol...

to building intelligent systems that can collaborate naturally and effectively with people. But true collaborative behavior requires an agent to possess a number of capabilities, including reasoning, communication, planning, execution, and learning. We describe an integrated approach to the design and implementation of a collaborative problem-solving assistant based on a formal theory of joint ...

We present a formal model of agent collaborative problem solving and use it to define a novel type of dialogue model. The model provides a rich structure for tracking dialogue state and supports a wide range of dialogue, including dialogue which contributes to interleaved planning and execution of domain goals.