Agent-based modelling (ABM) is a widely endeavoured simulation and modelling technique to realise the interaction between autonomous agents and the situated environment, facilitating the analysis of the effect of their interactions in the system as a whole (Wooldridge 2009).
The WATA system provides teachers with personalized learning resources and situated environment to practice assembling, administering tests on-line, and appraising test-related statistical information to reflect and revise test items.
More specifically, the PTs and the students who struggle in mathematics are both experiencing aspects of service learning, and both develop agency through their mediated learning experiences from the situated learning environment and critical reflection.
The situated learning environment is established in an authentic activity where the task is defined cognitively and pragmatically; it is through this authentic activity that learning becomes more contextualized [27].
The purpose of this experimental study is to investigate the efficacy of a situated learning environment for facilitating transfer during tasks requiring the evaluation of information in an online information literacy course.
Besides the perception that participants did not feel the need of having a regular primary care doctor, their situated social environment, illness experiences, personal cultural preference, and cultural beliefs also combined to generate their doctor shopping behavior.
The main characteristics of situated learning environments (SLEs) are: to provide authentic contexts, activities, expert performances and integrated assessment; to support multiple roles and perspectives, collaborative knowledge construction, coaching and scaffolding; and to promote reflection and articulation.
We understand agents as autonomous entities situated in an environment that perceive events occurring in the environment, reason based on knowledge, and act on the basis of perceived events.
An agent is a computer system that is situated in some environment, and that is capable of autonomous action in this environment in order to meet its delegated objectives (Wooldridge 2009).
A Multi-Agent System is built up of several software agents; a software agent is defined as a "computer system that is situated in some environment and that is capable of autonomous action in this environment in order to meet its design objectives" [30].
Generally, agents can be defined as computer systems that are situated in some environment and that are capable of autonomous action in this environment, based on mechanisms and representations somehow incorporated.
