Monitoring and Analysing Students’ Systematic Behaviour – The SCY Pedagogical Agent Framework

In this paper we present an agent-based architecture to monitor and analyse students’ behaviour while working with a simulation tool. This architecture is based on the blackboard principle and implemented using a TupleSpaces approach. The agents are divided into several groups according to their tas...

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Published inSustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice pp. 602 - 607
Main Authors Weinbrenner, Stefan, Engler, Jan, Wichmann, Astrid, Hoppe, Ulrich
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2010
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Agents
Assessment
Blackboard
SCY
Systematic Behaviour
TupleSpaces
VOTAT
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Summary:In this paper we present an agent-based architecture to monitor and analyse students’ behaviour while working with a simulation tool. This architecture is based on the blackboard principle and implemented using a TupleSpaces approach. The agents are divided into several groups according to their tasks to maximise autonomy and reusability. This separation was done with the idea of perceive-react-cycles in mind. An implemented example scenario that demonstrates how agents interact in generating meaningful context-aware student feedback is described. The visualisation of the agents’ analysis results facilitates a deeper understanding of the learners’ activities.
ISBN:3642160190
9783642160196
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-16020-2_61