Students and professors who complain that online education is impersonal may soon have a solution to their problem.

Researchers at Florida State University's Center for Research of Innovative Technologies for Learning (RITL) are creating " pedagogical agents&lrquo; : moving, talking characters who ' teach' courses through the computer.

Read more on this innovative development :Depending on the underlying system's intelligence, students can interact with such characters in ways similar to their interaction with a human teacher. Pedagogical agents can adapt to the student's strengths and weaknesses in a particular subject and provide emotional and cognitive feedback, which makes the computer more user-friendly and improves learning and motivation.It's nice to see Florida State being recognized for something other than being the #1 party school in America.

Posted by Rhys Alexander