Share Paper: The use of pedagogical agent as a tool to improve learning interest: Based on the distinction between individual interest and situational interest

  1. Sanghoon Park, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, United States
  2. Kioh Kim, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, United States
Wednesday, March 5 11:20-11:40 AM Royale Skybox 208

Abstract: Pedagogical agents have been studied as a tool to support learners’ active cognitive process by promoting learners’ interest through their persona and messages delivered. Especially, they can be used to promote students’ situational interest that lead to a high degree of attention and will foster the readiness of learners to get involved in the learning process. In this paper, the role of pedagogical agents was discussed based on the learning interest theory, and some examples of using pedagogical agent as a learning interest promoting tool are presented.