Agent-Assisted Collaborative Learning - Using Agent Teamwork as a Collaborative Method to Facilitate e-Learning

Mario Mallia-Milanes, Matthew Montebello

2017

Abstract

e-Learning was a major shift in the learning medium to reach out to vast amounts of people and enable the possibility for them to catch up on lost time or acquire new skills from the comfort of their home and at the time most suitable to them. However numerous issues have been attributed to e-learning over the years amongst which is the low retention rate that sheds a shadow on its validity and effectiveness. In this paper we discuss how we propose to employ artificially intelligent agents that collaborate together and with human counterparts to optimise the medium and extract academic benefits.

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Mallia-Milanes M. and Montebello M. (2017). Agent-Assisted Collaborative Learning - Using Agent Teamwork as a Collaborative Method to Facilitate e-Learning . In Doctoral Consortium - DCAART, (ICAART 2017) ISBN , pages 3-8


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@conference{dcaart17,
author={Mario Mallia-Milanes and Matthew Montebello},
title={Agent-Assisted Collaborative Learning - Using Agent Teamwork as a Collaborative Method to Facilitate e-Learning},
booktitle={Doctoral Consortium - DCAART, (ICAART 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={3-8},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={},
isbn={},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Doctoral Consortium - DCAART, (ICAART 2017)
TI - Agent-Assisted Collaborative Learning - Using Agent Teamwork as a Collaborative Method to Facilitate e-Learning
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AU - Mallia-Milanes M.
AU - Montebello M.
PY - 2017
SP - 3
EP - 8
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