Journal Name:
- The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
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Abstract (2. Language):
The traditional learning paradigm invoving face-to-face interaction with students is shifting
to highly data-intensive electronic learning with the advances in Information and
Communication Technology. An important component of the e-learning process is the
delivery of the learning contents to their intended audience over a network. A distributed
learning system is dependent on the network for the efficient delivery of its contents to the
user. However, as the demand of information provision and utilization increases on the
Internet, the current information service provision and utilization methods are becoming
increasingly inefficient.
Although new technologies have been employed for efficient learning methodologies within
the context of an e-learning environment, the overall efficiency of the learning system is
dependent on the mode of distribution and utilization of its learning contents. It is therefore
imperative to employ new techniques to meet the service demands of current and future elearning
systems. In this paper, an architecture based on autonomous mobile agents
creating a Faded Information Field is proposed. Unlike the centralized information
distribution in a conventional e-learning system, the information is decentralized in the
proposed architecture resulting in increased efficiency of the overall system for distribution
and utilization of system learning contents efficiently and fairly. This architecture holds the
potential to address the heterogeneous user requirements as well as the changing
conditions of the underlying network.
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