This book discusses an agent system to work as a tutor to interact with learners without educator’s involvement. There are three different agents integrated together for the PBL system: the GDSS-agent settles students’ conflicts in meetings; the tutor-agent consults students during the learning; the assessment-agent evaluates individual student’s formative and summative progresses in PBL classes.
目 錄
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 PBL BACKGROUND
1.2 CHARACTERISTICS OF PBL
1.3 PBL VERSUS TRADITIONAL TEACHING METHODS
1.4 MOTIVATION
1.5 RESEARCH PROBLEMS
1.6 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.7 THESIS STRUCTURE
CHAPTER 2: PBL WORKLOADS AND SUPPORTING SYSTEMS
2.1 PEDAGOGY
2.2 COURSE DESIGN
2.3 ASSESSMENT
2.4 COURSE EVALUATION
2.5 PBL WORKLOAD SUMMARY
2.6 SUPPORTING SYSTEMS FOR PBL
2.7 WEAKNESSES OF THE EXISTING PBL SUPPORTING SYSTEMS
2.8 PBL SUPPORTING SYSTEM VS. PBL WORKLOADS
CHAPTER 3: A COGNITIVE TUTOR MODEL FOR PBL
3.1 INTELLIGENT DEVICE ANALYSIS
3.1.1 Group Decision Support System - Ma’s GDSS (1996)
3.1.2 Visualized Mind Mapping Software - Belvedere (1997)
3.1.3 Computer Assistant Instruction - Magix (1999)
3.1.4 Kim’s Virtual Clinic (2002)
3.1.5 Mann’s Game-based Tool - (2002)
3.1.6 Intelligent Tutoring System – COMET (2004)
3.1.7 Oliveira’s PBL Pedagogical System - (2005)
3.1.8 Summary
3.2 A COGNITIVE TUTOR MODEL FOR PBL
3.2.1 A Cognitive PBL Scheme
3.2.2 Assembling the Cognitive Components
3.2.3 Cognitive PBL Model
3.2.4 Device Summary
3.3 CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 5: COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS IN MALESABRAIN
5.1 CRITICAL THINKING CYCLE IN MALESABRAIN
5.2 SCHEMA VERSUS AK-CELL
5.3 REINFORCEMENT VERSUS CRITICAL THINKING
5.4 EXAMPLE OF FUZZY CALCULATION
5.5 COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS IN MALESABRAIN ALGORITHMS
5.6 CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 6: PBL CLASSROOM WITH MALESABRAIN FACILITATION
6.1 EXPERIMENT DESIGN
6.2 COURSE DESIGN
6.3 EXPERIMENT
6.3.1 General introduction & Practice unit
6.3.2 Teaching Unit
6.3.3 PBL Discussion Unit
6.3.4 Presentation Unit
6.3.5 Experiment Discussion
6.4 SYSTEM SURVEY
6.5 CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION
7.1 REVIEW
7.2 CONTRIBUTION
7.3 LIMITATION
7.4 FUTURE WORK
7.5 FURTHER RESEARCH
