Provide authoring tools that make pedagogical agents easy to create for wide adoption¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 1 study (1 review), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

The authors argue that for pedagogical agents to be adopted widely there need to be authoring tools that make it easy to create them. Earlier work benefited from off-the-shelf tools such as Microsoft Agent, which has been discontinued without a comparable replacement, while human figures are becoming standard features of e-learning authoring tools such as Adobe Captivate and Articulate Studio, and Alelo's VRP MIL product makes it easy to populate training simulations with virtual role-players from reusable libraries. When such technologies are integrated into an easy-to-use package, agents will become part of the standard repertoire instructional designers use.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Integration of agent creation into an easy-to-use authoring package

Constraints¶

• No comparable tool has taken the place of the discontinued Microsoft Agent

Target Learners¶

• instructional designers
• teachers and students as creators of blended learning solutions

Target Learning Goals¶

• creation of e-learning applications incorporating pedagogical agents

Claims¶

• Pedagogical agents enhance learning compared with learning environments that do not feature agents [+W]

Related Strategies¶

• Combine real people and artificial agents as complements in blended learning environments

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• W. Lewis Johnson & James C. Lester. (2015). Face-to-Face Interaction with Pedagogical Agents, Twenty Years Later. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-015-0065-9