RoboTA: An Agent Colony Architecture for Supporting Education

Abstract

Resources in education and training are always limited, and instructors almost never have enough time to spend on the problems of their students. We believe that using a distributed agent architecture to provide coaches that operate outside software installed on the student's machine can provide valuable advantages in education and training. This paper describes RoboTA, an architecture for a colony of distributed agents aimed at supporting instructional tasks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA465991

Entities

People

  • Ken Forbus
  • Sven E. Kuehne

Organizations

  • Northwestern University

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  • Abstracts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Education
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  • Feedback
  • Information Operations
  • Infrastructure
  • Instructors
  • Military Research
  • Students
  • Training
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • STEM Education