Agent-based architecture of intelligent distance learning system

Abstract

During several recent decades a lot of research projects have been done in the area of intelligent distance learning systems. Such systems became wide spread in different educational and industrial organizations due to rapid evolution of network engineering and Internet. The physical presence of teacher and students in one class is not required due to usage of such systems. Usually, such systems have distributed architecture. This was a major motivation to make a research to analyze possibility of multiagent technologies usage in intelligent distance learning systems. The paper presents the developed architecture of agent community for such systems and a research prototype allowing to model agents' interaction for user interface control based on several pedagogical strategies. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.