Virtual Instructor and Pedagogical Issues

The scope of implementing a virtual instructor is to achieve enhanced learning outcomes during an autonomous training (education) sessions of a human learner. Based on the evidence of traditional education, the desired outcomes are also depending on the effectiveness of the instructor (trainer). A good and effective instructor often implies improved learning outcomes. But what makes a traditional instructor effective? How virtual instructor technology can benefit from traditional instructors? Will distance education become potential affected of the findings? Those are some of the issues discussed in the current paper.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICALT
• Authors: Avgoustos A. Tsinakos
• Keywords: ICALT 2006, Machine Learning, Traditional Instructors, Virtual Instructor, Virtual Instructor Technology