Abstract:
Computer supported 'collaborative learning (CSCl) is one promising technical means to facilitate e-learning over the
Internet. However, most current CSCL systems do not actively provide support for collaborative learning (CL). In such
systems, students get little assistance from system for the CL, activities, e.g. the formation of a Cl, group, the partition of
a learning task, the combination of learning outcomes, etc. This paper seeks to actively assist and guide students to
conduct CL, by using software agents. The challenges that students are confronted with in Clover the Internet are
investigated at first. Based on the challenges, a multi-agent architecture to facilitate CL, is proposed. Then, the
implementation on one particular CSCL system, LiveNet, is presented and the agent services to support CL, are explored.
