Open AccessSocial Presence Approach Within the Question and Answering eLearning Model: An Experiment with a Multi-Agent System
Author(s) -
Cecilia Avila,
Jorge Bacca,
Josep Lluís de la Rosa,
Silvia Baldiris,
Ramón Fabregat
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
respuestas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2422-5053
pISSN - 0122-820X
DOI - 10.22463/0122820x.415
Subject(s) - contrast (vision) , social network (sociolinguistics) , ask price , social learning , computer science , inclusion (mineral) , question answering , social psychology , social influence , psychology , mathematics education , artificial intelligence , knowledge management , world wide web , social media , economy , economics
The model of Questions Answering (Q&A) for eLearning is based on collaborative learning through questions that are posed by students and their answers to that questions which are given by peers, in contrast with the classical model in which students ask questions to the teacher only. In this proposal we extend the Q&A model including the social presence concept and a quantitative measure of it is proposed; besides it is considered the evolution of the resulting Q&A social network after the inclusion of the social presence and taking into account the feedback on questions posed by students and answered by peers. The social network behaviorwas simulated using a Multi-Agent System to compare the proposed social presence model with the classical and the Q&A models.Keywords: Social presence, social network, eLearning, Q&A Model, MultiAgent System.