Community-organizing agent: An artificial intelligent system for building learning communities among large numbers of learners

Computers and Education

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-147

  Yang, Fan ^a   Wang, Minjuan ^b   Shen, Ruimin ^a   Han, Peng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative collaborative learning; Distributed learning environments; Learning communities

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; DISTRIBUTED LEARNERS; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING COMMUNITIES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 34248662420     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2005.04.019     Document Type: Article

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