Designing Animated Pedagogical Agent (APA) to scaffold student learning in online problem-based learning environment

Abstract

This paper describes on the idea in integrating animated pedagogical agent (APA) as an alternative approach as scaffolding in Problem- Based Learning (PBL). APA will be operated as a virtual tutor and guided learners through the learning process in PBL. It is suggested to provide the potential solution to replace the human tutor request in PBL.