scholarly journals Pedagogical Agents: Back to the Future

AI Magazine ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Lewis Johnson ◽  
James C. Lester
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Interactive Learning Environments ◽  
Pedagogical Agents ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
The Future ◽  
Improved Learning ◽  
Autonomous Characters

Back in the 1990s we started work on pedagogical agents, a new user interface paradigm for interactive learning environments. Pedagogical agents are autonomous characters that inhabit learning environments and can engage with learners in rich, face-to-face interactions. Building on this work, in 2000 we, together with our colleague, Jeff Rickel, published an article on pedagogical agents that surveyed this new paradigm and discussed its potential. We made the case that pedagogical agents that interact with learners in natural, life-like ways can help learning environments achieve improved learning outcomes. This article has been widely cited, and was a winner of the 2017 IFAAMAS Award for Influential Papers in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS, 2017). On the occasion of receiving the IFAAMAS award, and after twenty years of work on pedagogical agents, we decided to take another look at the future of the field. We’ll start by revisiting our predictions for pedagogical agents back in 2000, and examine which of those predictions panned out. Then, informed what we have learned since then, we will take another look at emerging trends and the future of pedagogical agents. Advances in natural language dialogue, affective computing, machine learning, virtual environments, and robotics are making possible even more lifelike and effective pedagogical agents, with potentially profound effects on the way people learn.

scholarly journals Multimodal Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Bettyjo Bouchey ◽  
Jill Castek ◽  
John Thygeson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Multimodal Learning ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future

AbstractThe widespread use of technology in the digital age continually shapes how individuals consume knowledge and learn. In the digital age, ideas are shared and represented in multiple formats and through the integration of multiple modes. Technological advances, coupled with considerations of the changing needs of today’s learners, call for exploring new directions for multimodal teaching and learning. Yet, society’s increasing reliance on, and use of, technologies for communication and learning has introduced expanded forms of meaning-making. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the online networks that are facilitated by their use encourage educators to transform the way education is delivered. Learning environments are in need of becoming transformed so students are able to use immersive technologies to expand their learning opportunities. This chapter explores emerging trends and pedagogies in multimodal learning that seek to take advantage of the digital tools, texts, and learning approaches that are continually shaping the ways learning occurs inside and outside of higher education.This chapter is outlined to highlight what is found in the literature on multimodal instruction, what findings were realized at eXploring the Future of Innovative Learning Environments (X-FILEs) workshops, and lastly how multimodal instruction can be used to transform the classroom of the future. Throughout this chapter, readers will get to know a student of the future, Juan Delgado. He attends a 4-year university in Dallas, Texas, and is majoring in Mechanical Engineering taking his Introduction to the Fundamentals of Science course. Each aspect of the learning process as it relates to multimodal instruction in 2023 is outlined through the experiences of Juan to situate the impact to learners.

Rivigo

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
G. Raghuram ◽  
Pooja Sanghani
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Logistics Industry ◽  
Iot Platform ◽  
The Future

Rivigo, a new entrant in the trucking business in India, believed that a new paradigm in the trucking/logistics industry could be brought about that would not only improve the quality of service dramatically, but also upgrade a truck driver's lifestyle. While the industry faced driver shortage largely due to long stays away from home, Rivigo hoped to attract drivers by offering them roles which would bring them back home in 24 hours. Drivers would be part of a relay, handing over the truck at pit stops. Further, they leveraged an IT-enabled IoT platform on a fleet of owned trucks. All this revolutionized most of the traditions then followed in the industry. The entrepreneur and his core team comprised professionals from premium institutes of the country, with experience in professional organizations in related domains. By offering services like assured delivery at half the time and full shipment visibility, Rivigo had to charge a premium to market segments that would value this. The case raises the question of sustainability in the future.

Swarm organization — a new paradigm for the E-enterprise of the future

2005 ◽  
pp. 509-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Neef ◽  
Klaus Burmeister
Keyword(s):  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals How Inclusive Interactive Learning Environments Benefit Students Without Special Needs

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Molina Roldán ◽  
Jesús Marauri ◽  
Adriana Aubert ◽  
Ramon Flecha
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Interactive Learning ◽  
Interactive Learning Environments ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Educational Inclusion ◽  
The Impact

Growing evidence in recent years has led to an agreement on the importance and benefits that inclusive education has for students with special educational needs (SEN). However, the extension and universalization of an inclusive approach will also be enhanced with more evidence on the benefits that inclusion has for all students, including those without SEN. Based on the existing knowledge that learning interactions among diverse students are a key component of educational inclusion, the aim of this study is to identify the impact on students without SEN of being educated with students with SEN in shared, inclusive, interactive learning environments. Data were collected in three schools using a qualitative approach with a communicative orientation. Semistructured interviews were held with teachers as well as community volunteers participating in the schools. Further, focus groups were conducted with students and teachers. The results show that students without SEN benefit from participating in interactive learning activities with peers with SEN in different ways: (1) they learn to respect others, accept differences, and acknowledge different abilities, thereby creating opportunities for new friendships to develop; (2) they learn about abilities related to helping others participate and learn, to be patient and to gain the satisfaction in helping others learn and behave better; and (3) they benefit from the cognitive effort required to explain themselves and from the contributions of peers with SEN from which they can learn.

scholarly journals Pedarchitecture: Which Learning Environments for the Personalisation of Teaching and Learning? An Educational Architecture for the Schools of the Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-107
Author(s):  
Mariagrazia Francesca Marcarini
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teacher Collaboration ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
New Learning Environments ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Improved Learning

AbstractThis project investigates how to overcome traditional learning environment’s rigidity; those established practices that may hinder full use of what we might call new learning environments. It addresses how teachers adapt their teaching to changing learning environments, what impact new educational spaces have on teachers and students, how to organise students with different criteria, and how learning environments can be redesigned in old schools with limited investments. The research studies four schools: in Denmark, the Hellerup Folkeskole in Gentofte and the Ørestad Gymnasium in Copenhagen; in Italy, the Enrico Fermi High School in Mantua and IC3 Piersanti Mattarella secondary first grade in Modena. New learning environments are intended to enhance teacher collaboration and stimulate the exchange of new teaching methods, enabling learning personalisation. This is often facilitated by team teaching, which in this chapter is seen as a “bridge-culture” concept, offering a wider vision including structural and organisational details. The chapter discusses how this strategy lead to students improved learning skills, them taking on greater personal responsibility and displaying aptitude to study in different ways. In this sample of “architecture feeds pedagogy” schools, some key concepts are explored that might guide future learning environments design: readability, “semantic-topical”, flexibility, invisible pedagogy and affordances.

scholarly journals Augmented Reality in STEM Education: Bibliometric Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-623
Author(s):  
Tarık Talan
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Interactive Learning Environments ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Number Of Citations

Augmented reality applications in STEM education have increasing importance in recent years and it draws attention that scientific studies on this subject have gained momentum in the literature. The purpose of this research is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of studies on the use of augmented reality applications in STEM education in the literature. The Web of Science database has been used to collect the data. A total of 741 studies were accessed by going through various screening processes for the research. Content analysis and bibliometric analysis have been used in the analysis of the data. In the research, the distribution of publications by years and countries and the most published authors, journals, and countries were accessed. As a result of the research, in terms of the institutions with which the authors work, "National Taiwan University of Science Technology" ranked near the top for the number of citations and "National Taiwan Normal University" ranked near the top for the number of publications as the most productive institutions. It has been detected that "Wu, H. –K." and "Chang, H. –Y" are the most effective and productive researchers. According to the analysis conducted in the context of journals, "Computers Education" and "Interactive Learning Environments" have been the journals that contributed the most to this subject. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the co-authorship network structure is predominant in England and Spain. Concepts that become apparent in clusters in co-occurrences analysis are "augmented reality", "virtual reality", "mobile learning", "science education" and "mixed reality".

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