Agent-based cooperative learning: A proof-of-concept experiment

Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 368-372

  Soh, Leen Kiat ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a   Ansorge, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative Learning; Multiagent Systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTANCE EDUCATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

BUDDY GROUP; COOPERATIVE LEARNING; I-MINDS; LEARNING RESOURCES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 2642532089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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