Design Perspective on the Role of Advanced Bots for Self-Guided Learning
Virtual worlds are rapidly gaining acceptance in educational settings; with bots play an important role in these environments to help learners. Authentic learning can be significantly supported by bots to help self-guided learning in authentic tasks. in this paper, we investigate what is stopping ed...
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| description | Virtual worlds are rapidly gaining acceptance in educational settings; with bots play an important role in these environments to help learners. Authentic learning can be significantly supported by bots to help self-guided learning in authentic tasks. in this paper, we investigate what is stopping educators from making more use of bots as a valuable resource and how these barriers can be overcome. This exploratory research uses interviews with six educators, who use educational bots. We show that while the experts have 'big plans' for bot use, the current educational implementations are 'low-level' and restrictive in their application. There is further confusion about appropriate pedagogical models and how to use them effectively as more than 'prompters' or 'extras'. While creation- and control-technologies are advancing, allowing use of bots as a 'hard technology' to guide learners through routine procedures; there is a lack of resources for automation as intelligence technologies are slower to develop and may required future partnerships with external parties before they are available useable by general educators. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-66342017-01-30T10:54:15Z Design Perspective on the Role of Advanced Bots for Self-Guided Learning Wood, Lincoln Reiners, Torsten Bastiaens, T. N/A Interaction Evolution of Bots Fidelity Virtual worlds are rapidly gaining acceptance in educational settings; with bots play an important role in these environments to help learners. Authentic learning can be significantly supported by bots to help self-guided learning in authentic tasks. in this paper, we investigate what is stopping educators from making more use of bots as a valuable resource and how these barriers can be overcome. This exploratory research uses interviews with six educators, who use educational bots. We show that while the experts have 'big plans' for bot use, the current educational implementations are 'low-level' and restrictive in their application. There is further confusion about appropriate pedagogical models and how to use them effectively as more than 'prompters' or 'extras'. While creation- and control-technologies are advancing, allowing use of bots as a 'hard technology' to guide learners through routine procedures; there is a lack of resources for automation as intelligence technologies are slower to develop and may required future partnerships with external parties before they are available useable by general educators. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6634 http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.970 Common Ground fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Interaction Evolution of Bots Fidelity Wood, Lincoln Reiners, Torsten Bastiaens, T. Design Perspective on the Role of Advanced Bots for Self-Guided Learning |
| title | Design Perspective on the Role of Advanced Bots for Self-Guided Learning |
| title_full | Design Perspective on the Role of Advanced Bots for Self-Guided Learning |
| title_fullStr | Design Perspective on the Role of Advanced Bots for Self-Guided Learning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design Perspective on the Role of Advanced Bots for Self-Guided Learning |
| title_short | Design Perspective on the Role of Advanced Bots for Self-Guided Learning |
| title_sort | design perspective on the role of advanced bots for self-guided learning |
| topic | Interaction Evolution of Bots Fidelity |
| url | http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.970 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6634 |