Application of intelligent agents for mobile tutoring

We propose in this paper, that the popular e-learning process can also be pursued through the use of mobile devices, which we call as mobile learning (m-learning), another application under mobile commerce. It may be mentioned that to pursue m-learning through PDAs or mobile phones, is difficult because of their memory size being very limited and also the screen size is not that big enough to view the learning material or download them and hence we here propose considering mobile learning with Notebooks or Tablet PCs. Taking into consideration the constraints on the availability of internet connectivity and a tutor to be physically present at the other end for information dissemination, we here propose an intelligent agent replicating the tutor in the m-learning domain. The implementation of the scheme has been done using JADE development kit and the details are presented in this paper.