Multi-agent Based Virtual Learning Environment. A Socio-Cultural Approach

摘要

In our paper we are proposing a complex model of the student (learner) in a virtual educational environment, supported by a multi-agent system. The whole system is centered on the student and it mainly takes into account Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory that states that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition. The model is part of a larger project - DANTE - Socio-Cultwal Models implemented through multi-agent architecture for e-learning - that has as main objective the development of a student centred framework for the virtual educational universe that facilitates collaborative learning. The virtual educational world is inhabited by agents: human agents and artificial agents that interact. Agents can be mediating agents, semiotic agents or social agents; they can be intelligent software entities or simple ones, like interface agents.