Cyber learning with cyber instructors

• Main Author: Gautam Rao.
• Other Authors: Alexei Sourin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer applications::Computers in other systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38929
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cyber-learning is an important and vital part of university education. It has become common to put on the web course materials and interactive elements. However, when more and more information is provided electronically, it often results in disorientation and exhaust of the students. The students become more and more interested in personalized education where, ideally, their personal mentors would be able to help with solving any problem. Creating and using cyber-instructors may become an excellent teaching tool implementing personal mentoring of students at affordable cost. Based on the existing ALICE chat bot and AIML language, the student has to design new brain components for the cyber-instructor, which will be able to maintain conversation with the students as well as offer different educational services. There must be also designed and developed interactive software tools with user-friendly interfaces allowing the lecturers to add content to the "brains" of the cyber-instructors. References: http://www.alicebot.org