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In this paper an agent-based approach to interactive learning environments (ILE) is proposed. It is argued that current interactive learning systems, especially the intelligent tutoring systems, do not satisfy the minimal requirements of an ILE. A specification is given of an agent-based approach to ILE in which situated agents are associated with different aspects of the teacher's behaviour. It is argued that the interaction between these teacher agents and the student agent results in a highly adaptive and interactive learning system that satisfies the requirements of an ILE.The most promising is perhaps that the behaviour of the teacher seems already fairly complex even with a very limited amount of simple behaviours of the agents.
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Masthoff, J., van Hoe, R. (1996). APPEAL: A multi-agent approach to interactive learning environments. In: Perram, J.W., Müller, JP. (eds) Distributed Software Agents and Applications. MAAMAW 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61157-6_23
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