Sistema multiagente para apoiar a percepção e o acompanhamento de atividades em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem

Abstract

With the widespread use of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) in various educational institutions, usually in education courses distance, the task of monitoring the activities of students per guardians and mediators to achieve levels of quality have been a increasing work. To follow up the students in these new technologies require new thinking and attitudes of educators in these environments and new solutions by the designers of this class of systems. This paper describes architectures based on Multiagent Systems, focused on the concept of perception, designed to assist students and tutors on completion and monitoring of activities in distance education courses. The systems implemented according to the proposed architectures, help tutors and students through a discussion forum, solving doubts about the course and recommend the realization of activities that the student has not completed, favoring facilitating the smooth running of the course and collaboration among the other participants. Each proposed architecture there was a prototype implemented and evaluated, resulting in proposals for improvements in the next version. The results obtained during the experiments demonstrate the importance of using Multi-agent Systems in Virtual Learning Environments, supporting the realization of activities of the course participants and monitored by the tutors.