A study of designing an authoring tool for scripting animated pedagogical agents in multimedia learning system for elementary education

• Main Authors: Lee Ming-Fu, 李明富
• Other Authors: Hong Zeng-Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01833088124516976933

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 資訊工程學系碩士在職專班 === 97 === The main purpose of the study is to describe a project of courseware which has an authoring tool for elementary school teachers to construct interactive multimedia teaching materials that incorporate animated pedagogical agents. The authoring tool allows a teacher to design teaching materials that incorporate external multimedia objects (i.e., on-screen texts, images, video/audio files, etc.), and further script animated pedagogical agents to be tutors in these materials. The courseware was examined in an elementary school. The results of questionnaire reveal that participants including teachers and students were satisfied with the design of courseware. They also agreed that animated tutors in multimedia materials edited form the courseware can promote instructional effect. Thus, the courseware provides the opportunity for teachers to enhance their pedagogical value to the curriculum, further promotes students’ interest and motivation in learning.