The Research And Application Of Multi-Agent In The Modern Distance Education

With the extensive demand of the society and the repid development of the information technology, a revolutionary teaching mode in the history of mankind Modern Distance Education, has emerged as the times require. Modern Distance Education is based on advanced technology, such as multimedia, network, etc. Its characteristics, such as openness, variety, individuation, advance, etc., have formed a new-type modern education and teaching system, It is not only fundamental transforming and challenges to the traditional teaching mode, but also has the solid foundations of change and development. Meanwhile, Modern Distance Education is the realistic way of achieving life-long education. However, taking a broad view of the existing distance teaching system based on Internet, we can find a series of ubiquitous questions.The distance education is a kind of new-type educational form, that comes along with modern information technical development. Since most present network teaching systems lack intelligence, adaptation, independence and interaction. Agent technology should be adopted to carry on research and improvement on the above-mentioned defects.Agent technology can make the course more interesting and human, and improved the teaching effect and quality. It can trace the student's behavior dynamically, and offer more reliable basis for setting up student's model by utilizing Agent to manage the learner's information. It regard each learner as one Agent, with the mechanism of Agent, the learners can finish their studies in coordination with others. At the same time the teacher can be regarded as one Agent too, so they can communicate with students, and grasp students' study state at any time. We can analyze the overall requirement of the online education system and design the solution by using Agent thought. It can fully reflect the intelligence and initiative of teaching, especially in applying Agent technology to popular Web technology foundation today. This system will be superior to the traditional network tutoring system on teaching effect, teaching mode and systematic function, thus play a positive role to the implementation of the whole reform in teaching and quality-oriented education.This article has discussed the concept, characteristic, system structure and relevant technology of Multi-Agent system, and based on this, it has explained the cooperation technology, communication mechanism and KQML communication...