An agent based approach for promoting interactive teaching and active learning

This paper proposes an agent based support system for promoting interactive teaching and learning. The agent based system is developed with the emphasis on learning to know students' characters, habits, and preferences so that the teacher or the system can give students appropriate hints, encouragements, confidents, and as well as influence students gradually without their noticing and feeling of be persuaded and pressured. With more active participation of students in the interactive learning process, the teaching is more effective and the learning is more efficient.