First Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks

Introduction

We are happy to announce that we will be organizing a full-day workshop at AIED 2019. AIED 2019 is held in Chicago, IL, USA during June 25-29, 2019. Our workshop is located on the Second Floor of DePaul University's College of Computing and Digital Media (DePaul CDM). The location is 3-min walk from the conference hotel; please see the AIED website for details. You can also look at the map and details on the Attendify App, maintained by the conference organizers.

To help workshop attendees in exchanging information, we created an open Mendeley group. We want everyone, including workshop participants and beyond, to share relevant papers on the topic of intelligent textbooks; doing so is very important to this new and diverse field. Please share any papers and resources that you think are relevant, no matter whether they are your own or not. Thank you!

Textbooks have evolved over the last several decades in many aspects. Most textbooks can be accessed online, many of them freely. They often come with libraries of supplementary educational resources or online educational services built on top of them. As a result of these enrichments, new research challenges and opportunities emerge that call for the application of AIEd methods to enhance digital textbooks and learners’ interaction with them. Therefore, we ask: How to facilitate the access to textbooks and improve the reading process? What can be extracted from textbook content and data-mined from the logs of students interacting with it? This workshop seeks research contributions addressing these and other research questions related to the idea of intelligent textbooks. It aims at bringing together researchers working on different aspects of learning technologies to establish intelligent textbooks as a new, interdisciplinary research field. See here for an article published in NewScientist on intelligent textbooks with contributions from our organizers.

• Modelling and representation of textbooks: examining the prerequisite and semantic structure of textbooks to enhance their readability;
• Analysis and mining of textbook usage logs: analyzing the patterns of learners’ use of textbooks to obtain insights on learning and the pedagogical value of textbook content;
• Collaborative technologies: building and deploying social components of digital textbooks that enable learners to interact with not only content but other learners;
• Generation, manipulation, and presentation: exploring and testing different formats and forms of textbook content to find the most effective means of presenting different knowledge;
• Assessment and personalization: developing methods that can generate assessments and enhance textbooks with adaptive support to meet the needs of every learner using the textbook;
• Content curation and enrichment: sorting through external resources on the web and finding the relevant resources to augment the textbook and provide additional information for learners;
• Knowledge visualization: augmenting textbooks with concept maps, open learner models and other knowledge-rich extensions;
• Smart interactive content: extending online textbooks with various kinds of smart interactive content to improve learning, engagement, learned modeling, and personalization;
• Intelligent information retrieval and question-answering for digital textbooks.

Tentative Schedule

Important Dates

Call for Papers

Workshop Organizers and Program Committee