Java-based Mobile Agents for Educational Use
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Chen, H.C. & Tu, J.J. (2003). Java-based Mobile Agents for Educational Use. In D. Lassner & C. McNaught (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2003 (pp. 471-474). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2003
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2003
ISBN 1-880094-48-7
David Lassner & Carmel McNaught
AACE
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Mobile agent technology offers a flexible, versatile, and powerful framework for efficiently developing distributed applications on the Internet. Mobile agents can be designed to take full advantage of the many features this new technology offers and used to benefit students, researchers, and instructors in a more natural way. Most of the educational software agents currently in use on the Internet, however, are still stationary. In this paper, we propose using Java-based mobile agents called aglets as educational tools to improve teaching/studying environments so as to speedup the learning process of students, to lessen the administration burden of instructors, and to increase the interaction among them. Two specific applications of Java aglets are addressed to serve as examples to illustrate the advantages of using mobile agents as educational tools. These aglets offer mobile capabilities that are not easily achievable with the current stationary technology.
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