Traditional research in distance education using agent technology is focused on system description, but lack of precise and detailed design specification. So they cannot satisfy the requirements for realizing a practical system. This paper studies intelligent distance education from a new point, focuses on agent's independent decision-making process; proposes a novel concept, namely education agent, argues its significance in construction of intelligent distance education system; in order to explain the concept clearly, formally defines multi-agent distance education system 's abstract concept model, which is made up of three sub-concept models, they are education environment, education process and education agent; finally, on the basis of concept model, designs student and teacher agent's architecture, which can directly lead to practical software implementation.
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