Putting the Intelligent Collaboration Model in Practice within the Cleverpal Environment

Collabora : A Collaborative Architecture for Evaluating Individuals Participation During the Development of Activities

“…As means to promote collaboration among the students of virtual environments, [4] and [5] worked with intelligent agents and suggested the used of i-collaboration virtual collaboration model, it has as a primary objective to promote collaboration among AVAs students using virtual learning companions (CVA) along with collaborative tools and also, adapting interfaces and environment perceptions based on the preferences of each student.…”

“…Studies such as [1], [7], [6], [11], [5] and [8] show that through the creation of criteria and categorization of the interactions, which will further generate quantitative data, it is possible to build scenarios to promote indicators that will somehow map users collaboration or even a group of users collaboration. This information can be useful such as: stimulating students contribution within a work group; creating evaluation scores, analyzing learning, or other strategies that will lead to new and specific approaches in the learning process.…”

“…These tools can be used as work devices which encourages discussion, confront of ideas, interchanges of experiences, information and knowledge, aiming to build or rebuild new ideas through collaborative group activities [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. CSCL is an educational strategy that creates an encouraging environment to an individual actively participate in the process of building its own knowledge and of the group as a whole.…”

“…The most commonly used devices assess information and collaboration, for example using categorizing messages; log files; agents and multi-agents; data mining; among others [4], [5] and [6].…”