Education is one of the most relevant domains in which the integration of emerging computer and telecommunication technologies is enabling significant innovations. A prerequisite for this development are appropriate frameworks to guide education professionals in exploiting advanced information and communication technologies to significantly enhance the quality and efficiency of traditional mana...

tem, a simulator of crime in an urban region. In ExpertCop, the students (police officers) configure and allocate an available police force according to a selected geographic region and then interact with the simulation. The student interprets the results with the help of an intelligent tutor, the pedagogical agent, observing how crime behaves in the presence of the allocated preventive policin...

This paper looks at a recipe for the construction of an intelligent Learning Management System from the perspective of a learning community focussed LMS research and development team. Four key ingredients; the Educational Activity Toolset, the Learning Object Library, the Adaptive Intelligent Agent and the Learning Community Agents, are defined and mixed well. However, this basic recipe only so...

In this paper, we present a study to evaluate the impact of adaptive feedback on the effectiveness of a pedagogical agent for an educational computer game. We compare a version of the game with no agent, and two versions with agents that differ only in the accuracy of the student model used to guide the agent’s interventions. We found no difference in student learning across the three condition...

Reusing learning material is very important to design learning environments for real-life learning. The reusability of learning objects results from the product of three main features: modularity, discoverability and interoperability. We proposed learning objects built based on agent architectures, called Intelligent Learning Objects (ILO). This paper discusses how the ILO approach can be used ...

C-VIBE is an advanced learning system taking advantage of simulation, multimedia, virtual reality, agents/avatars-based, and multi-user, distributed communication technologies to deliver a realistic learning experience addressing the dynamics of change and innovation processes in organizations. This paper illustrates and discusses the pedagogical effectiveness of the core layers of C-VIBE, the ...

The use of Internet as a general vehicle to support distance learning is a recent orientation of learning with multiple positive and negative consequences. The important disadvantage of such an approach is to forget the difference between information and knowledge, between consultation and pedagogy, leading to poor training as a consequence. The need of providing access to information to a larg...

Affect has been the subject of increasing attention in cognitive accounts of learning. Many intelligent tutoring systems now seek to adapt pedagogy to student affective and motivational processes in an effort to increase the effectiveness of tutorial interaction and improve learning outcomes. However, the majority of research on tutorial feedback has focused on pedagogical content, often at the...

Education is one of the most relevant domains in which the integration of emerging technologies such as multimedia, groupware, and the Internet, is enabling significant innovations. A prerequisite for this development are appropriate frameworks to guide education professionals in exploiting advanced information and communication technologies to significantly enhance the quality and efficiency o...

This paper introduces AMPLIA, an intelligent learning environment employed as a resource in medical students’ training. The development of AMPLIA raised several research topics, due to the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Learning Environments. The core topics are: probabilistic diagnostic learning in the medical area, application of teaching strategies based on Pedagogical Negot...