An agent framework for learning systems

Personalized learning systems must allow learners to choose their learning goals and learning process. This paper describes a way for providing agent support that can assist learners to do this. The paper then proposes a framework of software agents made up of two parts. One are customizing agents that assist learners to select learning materials to satisfy learning objectives and set up a learning plan. The other are managing agents that help learners to follow a study program to progress through that material and dynamically change the process as needed. The paper describes a way to describe learning process that can be used by such agents and illustrates with a small prototype.