Intelligent Textbooks: The Fifth International Workshop

Abstract

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 can we use intelligent and adaptive technologies to facilitate the access to digital textbooks and improve the learning process? What new insights about knowledge and learning can be extracted from textbook content and data-mined from the logs of students interacting with it? How can these insights be leveraged to develop improved intelligent texts? How can we leverage new language technology to manage and augment textbooks? The Fifth International Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks features research contributions addressing these and other research questions related to intelligent textbooks. It brings together researchers working on different aspects of learning technologies to establish intelligent textbooks as a new, interdisciplinary research field.