Simulating Classroom Education with LLM-Empowered Agents
TranSirius
Abstract
SimClass, a multi-agent framework with LLM-empowered agents, effectively simulates classroom interactions, enhancing user experience and learning processes through collaboration.
Large language models (LLMs) have been employed in various intelligent educational tasks to assist teaching. While preliminary explorations have focused on independent LLM-empowered agents for specific educational tasks, the potential for LLMs within a multi-agent collaborative framework to simulate a classroom with real user participation remains unexplored. In this work, we propose SimClass, a multi-agent classroom simulation framework involving user participation. 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. Utilizing the Flanders Interactive Analysis System and Community of Inquiry theoretical frame works from educational analysis, we demonstrate that LLMs can simulate traditional classroom interaction patterns effectively while enhancing user's experience. We also observe emergent 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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This paper introduces SimClass, a novel multi-agent framework designed to simulate teaching and learning activities in a traditional classroom setting. We invite students to participate in SimClass to learn two real-world courses and conduct user experiments on these courses. Our results show that multiple large language models can effectively simulate traditional classroom interaction patterns, while enhancing the overall user experience.
Pause for a moment and consider the world a decade from now, where every person with a phone, has access to a personal Einstein that can teach them anything. Think of the children who grow up with this tech, nothing will be impossible. Surely the next generation of humanity will be a generation of geniuses.
It won't be limited to the first world either. Children in the third world will have access to an education greater than our current best universities can provide.
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Absolutely! And open source will play a crucial role in democratizing education.
Really interesting! I love the idea of using large language models in a multi-agent setup to create a virtual classroom with real user participation. It’s cool that you’re focusing on making the classroom interactions feel natural and improving the user experience. I’m curious about the class control mechanism you mentioned—how does it work differently from traditional teaching methods? Also, how do the Flanders Interactive Analysis System and the Community of Inquiry frameworks help in evaluating the classroom interactions? This sounds like a promising step forward in virtual education!
Thank you a lot! We are delighted that you like our design to make the class natural. Regarding your question about our control mechanism, we aim to simulate certain interaction patterns from traditional classrooms. As an automated LLM agents system, our overall design focuses on enabling class roles to perceive the current class state, ensuring that the most appropriate role speaks appropriately at the right time.
In terms of evaluation methods, FIAS is applied to evaluate the interaction patterns (e.g. the teacher praise the students, the students initiate questions), and we have found that these interaction patterns demonstrate similar traits to those in traditional classrooms (section 4.3). The CoI theory, on the other hand, assesses whether users experience the three types of Presence in the classroom (section 4.4). Thanks again for your interest!
This work sounds great! I'm excited for the dataset release. Do you have an estimated release date?
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