Simulating Classroom Education with LLM-Empowered Agents

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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Zheyuan, Zhang-Li, Daniel, Yu, Jifan, Gong, Linlu, Zhou, Jinchang, Hao, Zhanxin, Jiang, Jianxiao, Cao, Jie, Liu, Huiqin, Liu, Zhiyuan, Hou, Lei, Li, Juanzi
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author Zhang, Zheyuan
Zhang-Li, Daniel
Yu, Jifan
Gong, Linlu
Zhou, Jinchang
Hao, Zhanxin
Jiang, Jianxiao
Cao, Jie
Liu, Huiqin
Liu, Zhiyuan
Hou, Lei
Li, Juanzi
author_facet Zhang, Zheyuan
Zhang-Li, Daniel
Yu, Jifan
Gong, Linlu
Zhou, Jinchang
Hao, Zhanxin
Jiang, Jianxiao
Cao, Jie
Liu, Huiqin
Liu, Zhiyuan
Hou, Lei
Li, Juanzi
contents Large language models (LLMs) have been applied across various intelligent educational tasks to assist teaching. While preliminary studies have focused on task-specific, independent LLM-empowered agents, the potential of LLMs within a multi-agent collaborative framework for classroom simulation with real user participation remains unexplored. In this work, we propose SimClass, a multi-agent classroom simulation teaching framework. We recognize representative class roles and introduce a novel class control mechanism for automatic classroom teaching, and conduct user experiments in two real-world courses. Using the Flanders Interactive Analysis System and Community of Inquiry theoretical frameworks from educational analysis, we demonstrate that LLMs can simulate a dynamic learning environment for users with active teacher-student and student-student interactions. We also observe group behaviors among agents in SimClass, where agents collaborate to create enlivening interactions in classrooms to improve user learning process. We hope this work pioneers the application of LLM-empowered multi-agent systems in virtual classroom teaching.
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spellingShingle Simulating Classroom Education with LLM-Empowered Agents
Zhang, Zheyuan
Zhang-Li, Daniel
Yu, Jifan
Gong, Linlu
Zhou, Jinchang
Hao, Zhanxin
Jiang, Jianxiao
Cao, Jie
Liu, Huiqin
Liu, Zhiyuan
Hou, Lei
Li, Juanzi
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
Large language models (LLMs) have been applied across various intelligent educational tasks to assist teaching. While preliminary studies have focused on task-specific, independent LLM-empowered agents, the potential of LLMs within a multi-agent collaborative framework for classroom simulation with real user participation remains unexplored. In this work, we propose SimClass, a multi-agent classroom simulation teaching framework. We recognize representative class roles and introduce a novel class control mechanism for automatic classroom teaching, and conduct user experiments in two real-world courses. Using the Flanders Interactive Analysis System and Community of Inquiry theoretical frameworks from educational analysis, we demonstrate that LLMs can simulate a dynamic learning environment for users with active teacher-student and student-student interactions. We also observe group behaviors among agents in SimClass, where agents collaborate to create enlivening interactions in classrooms to improve user learning process. We hope this work pioneers the application of LLM-empowered multi-agent systems in virtual classroom teaching.
title Simulating Classroom Education with LLM-Empowered Agents
topic Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19226