Pedagogical Agents for Teacher Intervention in Educational Robotics Classes: Implementation Issues

Abstract

Teachers working in robotics classes face a major problem: how to keep track on individual students' or even small groups' progress in a class of 30-40 students. A multi-agent environment to help teachers with this problem is based on having pedagogical agents to monitor students' interaction, robots' movements, and the construction and programming process of robots. Mobile interaction agents move in local area network delivering other agents' observations to teacher's visualization agent. The implemented prototype system has revealed the strengths and the weakness of the proposed architecture.