InteliWeb: adaptation of the self-efficacy in an intelligent e-learning system

This article presents InteliWeb, an intelligent e-learning system, which has an agent responsible for promoting the sense of self-efficacy and motivating the student. Self-efficacy means the student´s belief on his own capacity of performing a task. This belief affects his behavior, motivation, affectivity and the choices he makes. This environment is composed of the student model manager agent (SMM) and of an animated pedagogical agent and offers instructional material on biological sciences implemented with servlets and JSP pages.