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This article presents the tutoring systems that we have been developing. AUTOTUTOR is a conversational agent, with a talking head, that helps college students learn about computer literacy. ANDES, ATLAS, AND WHY2 help adults learn about physics. Instead of being mere information-delivery systems, our systems help students actively construct knowledge through conversations
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