Animated Agents Teaching Helping Skills in an Online Environment: A Pilot Study

Autor/inn/en	Duggan, Molly H.; Adcock, Amy B.
Titel	Animated Agents Teaching Helping Skills in an Online Environment: A Pilot Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 6 (2007) 1, S.56-71 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1541-4914
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Communication Skills; Distance Education; Technology Uses in Education; Web Based Instruction; Electronic Learning; Helping Relationship; Intelligent Tutoring Systems; Interaction; Scripts; Skill Development; Empathy; Human Services; Professional Personnel; Professional Education; Pretests Posttests; College Students; Vignettes; Attitude Measures; Student Attitudes; Likert Scales; Statistical Analysis; Online Courses + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kommunikationsstil; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Web Based Training; Helfende Beziehung; Intelligentes Tutorsystem; Interaktion; Skript; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Empathie; Humanitäre Hilfe; Personalbestand; Berufsausbildung; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Likert-Skala; Statistische Analyse; Online course; Online-Kurs
Abstract	Human service educators constantly struggle with how to best teach students the communication skills required of entry-level human service professionals. While teaching such skills is easier in a traditional face-to-face environment, teaching communication skills via distance learning presents its own challenges. Developing interactive web-based learning environments to teach helping skills may solve this dilemma. This article describes a pilot study of three web-based environments. The interactive environment assigns learners to serve as helpers while an animated agent portrays a client. A modeling environment has participants observing a client-helper interaction between two agents. The helper-client script environment presents a text-based script. Data collected to assess skill acquisition and usability indicate improvement in skills and positive user perceptions in all three environments. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	University of Alabama. 152 Rose Administration, P.O. Box 870104, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. Web site: http://www.ncolr.org/jiol
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01