Investigating 5th-grade students' opinions and attitudes towards using an Arabic pedagogical agent

ABSTRACT

Due to covid-19, educational institutions all around the world resorted to e-learning regardless of the readiness of e-learning tools used or the students' attitude and readiness towards using them. In this paper, we developed a pedagogical conversational agent, which is an e-learning tool and considered as a solution for the lack of social interaction that e-learning suffers from, to know the attitude of 5th-grade students in an elementary school in Tunisia towards learning « Fractions» with the help of a pedagogical conversational agent as learning support. The attitude towards using the conversational agent was favorable with the suggestions of providing a more natural interaction that focuses on making the conversational agent have more personality and emotionally intelligent and making the conversations longer with including multi-media elements. © 2021 IEEE.