Innovative practice articles
Design of a chatbot as a distance learning assistant
Authors:
- Pedro Antonio TamayoEmail Pedro Antonio Tamayo
- Ana Herrero
- Javier Martín
- Carolina Navarro
- José Manuel Tránchez
Abstract
Within the process of progressive digitization of materials and tools for teaching and distance learning of a subject of introduction to Microeconomics (quarterly, in year three of the Degree in Social Work), taught by the authors at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), a virtual assistant in the form of chatbot, or conversational robot, called EconBot, has been designed and made available to students from 2017. This paper presents the reasons that led to its adoption, the process of its development, differentiating two phases, its characteristics and functions, the assessment of its usefulness and the role of teachers in the implementation of this type of technological innovation.
- Year: 2020
- Volume: 12 Issue: 1
- Page/Article: 145-153
- DOI: 10.5944/openpraxis.12.1.1063
- Submitted on 22 Oct 2019
- Accepted on 3 Feb 2020
- Published on 31 Mar 2019
- Peer Reviewed