Informal eLearning using Multi Agent Systems

Learning resources which were earlier limited to libraries only are available on the Web as well these days. These learning resources can be in the form of eBooks, eJournals, experts' blogs, and even a general communication over a topic among the community can be used as an important source of information. Retrieving relevant informative resources from the huge voluminous Web and, organizing them for later use is a tedious and time consuming job. This paper proposes a Multi Agent System for automatic retrieval and organization of the Web content for learning purposes. The system is designed to provide the relevant and useful content from the Web to a learner at any time and, hence can be used for informal e-Mentoring, a sub-task of e-Learning. A prototype of the system is implemented using JADE.