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Wednesday, August 14, 2002
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0235.pdf Conceptualizing Intelligent Agents for Teaching and Learning Ali Jafari ...The different brands of CMS range from homegrown software environments to sophisticated commercial products. Although new versions include easy-to-use Web authoring tools, most offer passive services. As a result, some instructors spend more time teaching a distance-learning course than teaching the same course in a classroom setting. This problem results mostly from the time-consuming operational nature of online courses. It is not unfair to call the typical CMS a “dumb software environment.” For instance, the instructor is expected to regularly check students’ progress by visiting many Web pages and using different tools within the CMS system to verify student progress and participation. This includes monitoring the message board activities log to verify student participation, consulting the drop box tool to see if students have submitted assignments, and regularly visiting the course activity log to monitor the magnitude of students’ online activities. Performing these tasks in addition to handling hundreds of e-mail messages has become a major time-consuming operation for most instructors. Intelligent agents perform tasks for students and instructors in a dynamic, personal, and smart teaching and learning environment or a campus portal could perform some of these tasks...
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