| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 資訊教育學系 === 96 === The purpose of this study was to develop and verify the feasibility of an evaluation instrument for the design of pedagogical agent, and to provide guidelines for e-Learning courseware design. The study was developed based on literature review, and questionnaires were adopted for the evaluation of e-Learning courseware. The four courseware evaluated in this study were identified as the browser-based agent, instruction-based agent, simulation-based agent and scenario-based agent based on the design mechanism of pedagogical agent. There were a total of three dimensions and nine sub-criteria in the evaluation framework including instructional design (presentation, instructional guidance, assessment & feedback), technological support (media, interface design, navigation) and social presence (physical cues & language, social interaction, social role).
The results showed that (1) the importance of criteria were ordered as instructional guidance, navigation, presentation, assessment and feedback, interface design, social role, media, social interaction, physical cues and language; (2) the evaluation framework was feasible through investigation; (3) the evaluation revealed that the quality of the four pedagogical agents was acceptable but there was a gap toward the performance evaluation among experts. Finally, it was suggested that the design of an pedagogical agent should provide explanatory feedback and adaptive navigation for enhanceing evaluation and navigation, emphasize persona effect to improve physical cues and language, and provide peer model, motivational comments, and facial expressions to enrich social interactions.
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