A virtual cooperative learning environment using human companion

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This paper describes the architecture of an Interactive Learning Environment (ILE) on the internet using companions which one is a human and geographically distant of the learning site.

The achieved system rests on a three-tier customer / server architecture (customer, web server, data and applications server) where human and software actors can communicate via the internet and uses the DTL learning strategy.

It contains five main actors: a tutor actor in charge to guide the learner; a system actor whose role is to manage and to control the accesses to the system; a teacher actor in charge of the management and the updating of the different bases; a learner actor who represents the main actor of the system for whom is dedicated the teaching.

Also, a learning companion actor whose role can be sometimes as an assistant, and other times as a troublemaker.