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MentorChat is a CSCL system that utilizes a conversational pedagogical agent to engage students in fruitful collaboration. This conversational agent attempts to promote students’ productive dialogue by providing unsolicited prompts aimed to elicit explicit reasoning. Using MentorChat a teacher is able to design and deploy the phases and the tasks of a collaborative activity along with the support that the agent provides. In this paper, we present (a) the theoretical background MentorChat is based on, (b) the main technical features of the system and (c) some encouraging preliminary results.
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Tegos, S., Demetriadis, S., Karakostas, A. (2013). MentorChat: A Teacher-Configurable Conversational Agent That Promotes Students’ Productive Talk. In: Hernández-Leo, D., Ley, T., Klamma, R., Harrer, A. (eds) Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact. EC-TEL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8095. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40814-4_63
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