Using Conversational Agents To Support Learning By Teaching
This work addresses the challenge of enhancing educational interactions for students by leveraging conversational agents in a teaching role, representing an incremental advancement in educational technology.
The paper tackles the problem of supporting learning by teaching using conversational agents, introducing Curiosity Notebook to facilitate student learning through conversational interventions, resulting in improved student engagement and insights into agent design.
Conversational agents are becoming increasingly popular for supporting and facilitating learning. Conventional pedagogical agents are designed to play the role of human teachers by giving instructions to the students. In this paper, we investigate the use of conversational agents to support the 'learning-by-teaching' paradigm where the agent receives instructions from students. In particular, we introduce Curiosity Notebook: an educational application that harvests conversational interventions to facilitate students' learning. Recognizing such interventions can not only help in engaging students within learning interactions, but also provide a deeper insight into the intricacies involved in designing conversational agents for educational purposes.