Intelligent Agent based Mobile Learning System

Abstract

We propose in this paper, that the popular elearning process can also be pursued through the use of mobile devices, which we call as mobile learning (m-learning), another application under mobile commerce. It may be mentioned that it is difficult to pursue mlearning through PDAs or mobile phones because of their memory size being very limited and also the screen size is not that big enough to view the learning material or download them. In view of this we here propose considering mobile learning using Notebooks or Tablet PCs, since these have also become as mobile devices these days. Taking into consideration the constraints on the availability of internet connectivity and a human tutor to be physically present at the other end for information dissemination, we propose an intelligent agent, replicating the tutor, in the m-learning domain. The validation of the proposed scheme has been carried out using JADE development kit and the details are presented in this paper.