Narrative Pedagogical Agents to Enhance Reading Strategies in Geo-Histor Multimedia Learning Environment

A Team of Pedagogical Agents in Multimedia Environment for Children

This paper presents the multimedia product for teaching Natural Sciences to 10-12 years old children. In this product three pedagogical agents, Teacher and two pupils guide the learner through the virtual environment. The inclusion of a team of pedagogical agents permits us to create a micro-model of lesson activity and gives a reliable support of individual learner differences. The script-base...

Pedagogical Agents in Constructivist Multimedia

Objectives and Theoretical Framework What are the cognitive consequences of introducing the image of a pedagogical agent in a discovery-based multimedia learning environment? How should pedagogical agents communicate with students to promote constructivist learning? In order to answer these questions, we conducted two sets of studies. First, we varied whether the agent's words were presented as...

Animated Pedagogical Agents in Web-based Intelligent Learning Environment

Animated pedagogical agents are life-like characters used as cognitive tools to support student learning. Pedagogical agents are better substitutes for the expert/tutor module of a traditional intelligent tutoring system as they provide sophisticated, real-time problemsolving advice with strong visual appeal that make learning more engaging and effective. In addition to this, animated pedagogic...

Simulating pedagogical agents in a virtual learning environment

This paper presents and analyses data from a usability experiment conducted at the University of Bergen in Norway. The experiment is entitled CoPAS: Collaboration Patterns Agent Simulation. CoPAS is a simulation study carried out with the Wizard of Oz technique. Students used a groupware system, TeamWave Workplace, to solve a learning task in the domain of object-oriented analysis and design us...

Reading Strategies and Learning outcomes