Abstract
With the proliferation of computers at home and in the work place, email, internet browsers, chat rooms, and network bandwidth availability, the traditional concept of skill training passed from experts to apprentices can now take on a new paradigm shift where these skills can be taught over the internet. With the primary goal of developing a general tool that supports the transfer of skill from an expert to a group of users, this paper proposes a new approach to distance learning, which we consider a subset of the above group, from the current one-to-one (or top-down) approach to a many-to-many (or bottom-up) approach. We introduce the concept of a network centric intelligent agent that will support the passing of knowledge from teacher to students.