An intelligent collaborative learning environment (iCLE) provides an online learning community with an interactive and multi-functional work area with intelligent support for the whole cycle of collaborative education, including organizing teams, advising on group work and communication, tutoring, and testing individual contributions. An agent-based approach lends itself to developing iCLE syst...

Multiagent techniques improves student learning in ComputerSupported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments through multiagent coalition formation and intelligent support to the instructors and students. Researchers designing the multiagent tools and techniques for CSCL environments are often faced with high cost, time, and effort required to investigate the effectiveness of their tools and...

This paper introduces a collaborative learning approach to digital architectural design within a 3D real-time virtual environment within which students Inhabit, Design, Construct and Evaluate (IDCE) their designs virtually and collaboratively. The paper articulates the development and implementation of the IDCE model utilized within the 3D virtual environment for achieving collaborative digital...

The marketplace for synchronous and asynchronous services and products is becoming very competitive. Although there are over fifty providers of e-learning tools and services many problems still remain. This paper describes the Intelligent Distributed Virtual Training Environment project (INVITE) which addresses some of these. INVITE is a collaborative European project which offers a platform fo...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are facing challenges to improve its traditional focus on individual learning towards social learning. Despite the great success in distributing learning materials and managing students, the availability of the read and write features of social networking applications had encouraged educators to move their learning spaces toward a more interactive applications....