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The Design of a Teacher-Driven Intelligent Agent System for Supervising Lessons in LAMS

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This chapter presents the design of an intelligent agent based system that aims to support teachers in supervising and evaluating learners and activities of lessons in the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS). A monitoring agent has been designed to collect and aggregate information from LAMS database, related to the participation of learners in lesson’s activities, at time intervals which indicates the teacher through a scheduler agent. A user notification agent diagnoses conflicts in the learning and collaborative processes and issues alert and awareness messages to the teacher, learners and groups of learners via rules that are based on a teacher defined participation model. The system, based on this model, generates also evaluation reports of learners and activities of the lesson, in order to assist the teacher to intervene effectively in the course of a lesson.

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Chronopoulos, T., Hatzilygeroudis, I. (2012). The Design of a Teacher-Driven Intelligent Agent System for Supervising Lessons in LAMS. In: Daradoumis, T., Demetriadis, S., Xhafa, F. (eds) Intelligent Adaptation and Personalization Techniques in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 408. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28586-8_10

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