A computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment aims to facilitate student learning by letting them work in small teams with the support of computer technology. Two important factors that affect work in such scenario are: interaction among the students and compatibility or interactivity of the team members. I-MINDS is a tool designed to support structured Computer Supported Colla...

iii Preface Applied Mathematics: Body&Soul is a mathematics education reform program including a series of books, together with associated educational material and open source software freely available from the project web page at www.bodysoulmath.org. Body&Soul reflects the revolutionary new possibilities of mathematical modeling opened by the modern computer in the form of Computational Calcu...

Preface This is a draft of an upcoming book with a computational approach to quantum mechanics based viewing the the Schrödinger equation for a many-electron atom or molecule as a non-linear system of of one-electron equations in the spirit of Hartrees classical method, which is solved in a collective computational process with each electron updating its own three-dimensional wave function acco...

Professor Allen (this issue) critiques the value of using “weird” hypotheticals to mine intuitions about legal systems. I respond by supporting “thin” for providing information how people reason generally, rather than revealing peoples’ specific answers. note that because systems are products many minds thinking other operate, object inquiry is metacognition—that is, understanding reasoning wor...

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning environments (CSCL) are used today as a platform for delivering distance education and as a tool to improve student understanding using collaborative learning methods. The success of a CSCL environment in improving the knowledge of a student depends on the quality of group work of its participants. However, forming human user groups that allow all the u...

In this paper, we describe a computer-supported cooperative learning system in education and the results of its deployment. The system, called I-MINDS, consists of a set of teacher agents, group agents, and student agents. While the agents possess individual intelligent capabilities, the novel invention of I-MINDS lies in multiagent intelligence and coalition formation. I-MINDS supports student...

In this paper, we introduce I-MINDS (Intelligent Multiagent Infrastructure for Distributed System in Education), an application based on multiagent system intelligence that enables students to actively participate in a virtual classroom rather than passively listening to lectures in a traditional virtual classroom. IMINDS agents, equipped with intelligence of their own, and knowledge about othe...

In this paper, we describe an Intelligent Multiagent Infrastructure for Distributed Systems in Education (or I-MINDS) framework that applies an agent-oriented information system to education purposes. Our design employs distributed computing principles (i.e., Java Object Passing Interface and the Distributed Shared Object model) to facilitate cooperation among agents, data gathering and informa...