Book+Builder

Betty and Billy, teachable agents created at the Teachable Agents Group at Vanderbilt University. These agents interact with users by asking to be taught concepts necessary to solve problems in the program. The AutoTutor program and research on the use of teachable agents, created at the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. The animated agent dialogs with the user as a tutor, eliciting deep reasoning and explanations. The iSTART (Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking) offers online modules based on research on reading comprehension and self-explanatory teaching. Pedagogical agents provide students with interactive and adaptive training to use active reading strategies. Peedy the Parrot is a Microsoft agent that can be incorporated into multimedia programs. Check out how this teachable parrot is being used by a Stanford University group and their explanation of pedagogical agents. BookBuilder is an online tool to develop e-books with three different embedded agents that offer strategic comprehension prompts. There is even an agent to help authors create the books. This library will grow as users post the books they have created.
 * Betty and Billy**
 * AutoTutor**
 * iSTART**
 * Peedy the Parrot**
 * BookBuilder**