Avatars for Education

Avatars for education are a 'bleeding edge' technology that is gaining attention. Avatars are no longer just for gaming. There are researchers at Vanderbilt University, Stanford University , and the University of Washington who are working to produce intelligent agents that are capable of teaching and/or learning. I stumbled upon this field when choosing a topic for an Innovations in Education course at the doctorate level. Though research is limited, pedagogical avatars and intelligent agents are sure to become more mainstream in the near future as humans look to computers as a source of artificial intelligence.