Conversational Agents as Group-Teacher Interaction Mediators in MOOCs

Stavros Demetriadis, Stergios Tegos, Georgios Psathas, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Armin Weinberger, Santi Caballe, Yannis Dimitriadis, Eduardo Gómez-Sánchez, Pantelis M. Papadopoulos, Anastasios Karakostas

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Abstract

This paper presents the colMOOC project perspective for integrating a conversational agent service in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to facilitate peer dialogue during chat-based activities. Furthermore, it provides high level system architecture to highlight key aspects of the technology infrastructure and the functionality of the software system. The rationale of the approach follows the tenets of several converging theoretical perspectives emphasizing the value of learners' dialogue and constructive argumentation as knowledge building processes during collaborative activities. The MOOC teacher (domain expert) is expected to play a key role by entering in the system conceptual links that guide the agent to make relevant questioning interventions. Thus, the agent tool is mediating group-teacher interactions in a MOOC environment aiming to increase the transactive quality of peer dialogue. The paper discusses also the 'Academically Productive Talk' model that provides the basis for the agent interventions and the major software components of the system, including the colMOOC Editor and the colMOOC Player.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2018 Learning With MOOCS, LWMOOCS 2018
PublisherIEEE
Pages43-46
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538665336
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Nov 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Learning with MOOCs, LWMOOCS 2018 - Madrid, Spain
Duration: 26 Sept 201828 Sept 2018
Conference number: 5

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Learning with MOOCs, LWMOOCS 2018
Abbreviated titleLWMOOCS 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMadrid
Period26/09/1828/09/18

Keywords

  • Academically Productive Talk (APT)
  • Conversational agent
  • MOOCs
  • Peer interaction
  • Transactivity

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