Use of intelligent agents in collaborative m-learning: case of facilitating group learner interactions
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Date
2017Author
Njenga, Stephen T.
Oboko, Robert O.
Omwenga, Elijah I.
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ArticleLanguage
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Intelligent agents have been used in
collaborative learning. However, they are rarely used to
facilitate group interactions in collaborative m-learning
environments. In view of this, the paper discusses the use
of intelligent agents in facilitating collaborative learning
in mobile learning environments. The paper demonstrates
how to design intelligent agents and integrate them in
collaborative mobile learning environments to allow
group learners to improve their levels of group
knowledge construction. The design was implemented in
a collaborative mobile learning system running on
Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
Environment (Moodle) platform. The application was
used in some experiments to investigate the effects of
those facilitated interactions on the level of group
knowledge construction. The results showed improved
levels of group knowledge construction in instances
where the facilitations were enabled compared to where
they were disabled. The paper concludes that the use of
intelligent agents in facilitating learner group interactions
in collaborative mobile learning environments improves
the levels of group knowledge construction. For future
work, the use of intelligent agents can be tested in other
areas of group interactions to enhance group learning.
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http://www.mecs-press.org/ijmecs/ijmecs-v9-n10/IJMECS-V9-N10-3.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11295/102374
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University of Nairobi
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