Designing a Chat Bot for Learning a Subject in a Telegram Messenger
Ivan M. Tsidylo, Sergiy Samborskiy, Іван-Станіслав Мазур, Maria Zamoroz
Abstract
The article deals with Telegram messenger as a tool that can be used for educational purposes, namely, for studying the academic discipline. The essence of the concept of messenger and statistics of its use in the world are clarified. Popular messengers such as WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram are compared, as well as their technological capabilities and potential for use in learning activities. The advantages of Telegram Messenger and requirements for the software product (chatbot) were highlighted. In the Telegram environment there was developed a chatbot for studying the educational discipline "Informatics" for the students of vocational education institutions. It was developed and described the stage of its development: creating a token API in BotFather, adding a new bot in ManyBot, as well as adding commands and responses to them, with a demonstration of illustrations. The final result of the chatbot is given, which contains such common divisions: lectures, lab, and homework. An experimental study to test the effectiveness of using the chatbot in the learning process is made, which describes its implementation in the learning process on the example of the subject " Informatics " and conclusions about the relevance of its use in the learning process.