Socio-cultural Modelling of the Student as the Main Actor of a Virtual Learning Environment

In our paper we are presenting a socio-cultural model of the student as the main actor of a virtual learning environment. The model is part of a larger project DANTE – Socio-Cultural Models implemented through multi-agent architecture for e-learning – that has as main objective the development of a model for the virtual education system, student centred, that facilitates the learning through collaboration as a form of social interaction. The model requires its own universe in which the human agents interact with the artificial ones (software agents). The project presumes the combination of the artificial intelligence (multi agent) system with elements of the socio-cultural theory of learning by collaboration and human actors. Key-Words: virtual systems, real systems, decision behavior, learning models, agent technology