New Curriculum Textbook
Research on new curriculum textbooks focuses on leveraging AI to enhance their creation and utilization, primarily aiming to improve educational quality and efficiency. Current efforts employ large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and other transformer-based architectures to generate lesson plans, interactive exercises, and even synthetic teacher-student dialogues directly from textbook content, often incorporating knowledge graphs and Bloom's taxonomy for improved question generation. These advancements offer the potential to personalize learning experiences, create more engaging educational materials, and address teacher shortages in resource-constrained environments.
Papers
Book2Dial: Generating Teacher-Student Interactions from Textbooks for Cost-Effective Development of Educational Chatbots
Junling Wang, Jakub Macina, Nico Daheim, Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Mrinmaya Sachan
Why Not Use Your Textbook? Knowledge-Enhanced Procedure Planning of Instructional Videos
Kumaranage Ravindu Yasas Nagasinghe, Honglu Zhou, Malitha Gunawardhana, Martin Renqiang Min, Daniel Harari, Muhammad Haris Khan