Future Trends

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We believe that agent-based tutoring systems will provide a means of dealing with the knowledge acquisition, revision, and transfer that are essential in a learning process. Agents will use a variety of communication and representation modes to help us to understand and make use of course materials or knowledge. We are sure that learning environments employing multiagents systems allow students, teachers, and courseware developers to add flexibility in achieving their learning objectives. To make such a system more helpful, future study may concern the following problems:

• Different architecture design for different courses, topics, or disciplines

  Because different courses, topics, or disciplines involve knowledge that is very different in presentation or nature, such as history and mathematics, we may need different knowledge management architectures and techniques for them.

• How will Internet technology affect an agent-based tutoring system?

  Modern tutoring systems should be Web-based to maximize accessibility. With the integration of Web technologies, further investigation on tutoring system architecture and knowledge management is needed.

• Cooperation between an agent-based tutoring system and existing software tools

  Existing software tools can help in the development of an agent-based tutoring system and provide insights to a better learning environment. Such cooperation can also help reduce costs.

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