Abstract for Animated Pedagogical Agents in Knoweldge-Based Learning Environments
Smart Machines in Education, 2001

      Since their inception more than a quarter of a century ago, knowledge-based learning environments (Carbonell 1970, Hollan et al. 1987, Lesgold et al. 1992) have offered significant potential for fundamentally changing the educational process. It has long been believed that presenting knowledgeable feedback to students increases learning effectiveness. Despite this promise, few learning environments have made the difficult transition from the laboratory to the classroom, and the challenge of developing learning environments that are pedagogically sound and intrinsically motivating has played no small part in this impasse.




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