Design of an Educational Virtual Assistant Software

Abstract

Despite the great creators’ efforts of e-learning educational materials, it is not possible to define the content of these materials specifically for all students. Based on this, it is necessary to provide in e-learning education the possibility of a more detailed interpretation of specific parts of the educational material that may be unclear to specific students. Based on this fact, we decided to take the first step in the form of software design, which will represent a virtual assistant in teaching computer science. The role of this assistant will be the ability to answer technical questions related to the presented curriculum. From an architectural point of view, it will be a set of micro-services, each of which will serve a specific task. The prerequisite is the use of decision trees to determine a specific micro-service, which will be implemented in the form of a neural network. Main aim of this paper is to provide detail description of global software architecture for such a virtual assistant

Students' Perception about the Use of an Educational Web Application During the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…In the educational field, ICTs allow the organisation of creative activities that meet the educational needs of the students during the COVID-19 pandemic (Alawajee, 2021;Amka & Dalle, 2022;Halvoník & Psenak, 2021). In particular, 42.86% of students consider that the web application increases much the satisfaction during the learning process.…”

“…The design and construction of technological tools play a fundamental role in facing the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (Georgieva-Tsaneva & Serbezova, 2021;Liu & Lu, 2021). In fact, the creation and use of technological applications improved the teaching-learning process about the English language (Huang & Zhu, 2021), Computing (Halvoník & Psenak, 2021), Mathematics (Fan et al, 2021) and Medicine (Georgieva-Tsaneva & Serbezova, 2021).…”

“…In the English course, Huang and Zhu (2021) built a technological tool that allowed the consultation with multimedia resources such as audios, videos and digital presentations from any location. Likewise, Halvoník and Psenak (2021) built a technological application to facilitate the assimilation of knowledge about computing through a virtual assistant.…”

“…Finally, educational institutions can update course activities, encourage the active role, facilitate the assimilation of knowledge and develop the students' skills through the construction of technological applications (Fan et al, 2021;Georgieva-Tsaneva & Serbezova, 2021;Halvoník & Psenak, 2021). Even Fan et al (2021) mention that web tools are the future of education.…”

“…Educators can improve the learning process from anywhere and encourage the participation of the students at any time by building educational web applications (Halvoník & Psenak, 2021;Huang & Zhu, 2021;Rodriguez-Lora & Herrera-Caballero, 2021). Likewise, web tools allow the autonomy of the students during the educational process (Demir, Kaleli-Yilmaz, & Sert-Celik, 2021;Fan et al, 2021;Tawafak, Alfarsi, & Jabbar, 2021).…”