Sixth Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks (iTextbooks)

@ The 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED’2025)

Introduction  

This full-day workshop will be organized at AIED 2025.

The most likely date of the workshop is July 26, 2025.

AIED 2025 will be held in Palermo, Italy during July 22-26, 2025.

See here: https://aied2025.itd.cnr.it/

The webpages of the previous workshops of this series: 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023

Recent special issue on Intelligent Textbooks in the International Journal of AI in Education: Link

Workshop Description

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 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.

We expect that this year’s workshop will reflect on the potential of generative AI techniques in intelligent textbooks. Many recent works on intelligent textbooks incorporate these technologies, especially large language models (LLMs). Digital textbooks have contributed a lot to the pre-training of LLMs, providing them with information on knowledge and structure of textbooks’ content. This opens up many pathways to explore the synergy between LLMs and textbooks to enhance textbooks’ functionality with intelligent and adaptive services and enrich interaction between textbooks and their readers.

This workshop builds on the success of the five previous events and the recent special issue on Intelligent Textbooks published by the International Journal of AI in Education.

As in previous years, the workshop will be supported by the SPLICE Infrastructure project. We will also offer limited assistance to help participants attend the workshop.

Topics of Interest

• Modeling and representation of textbooks: examining the prerequisite and the 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;
• 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;
• Knowledge visualization: augmenting textbooks with concept maps, open learner models and other knowledge-rich extensions;
• Collaborative technologies: building and deploying social components of digital textbooks that enable learners to interact with not only content but other learners;
• Smart interactive content: extending online textbooks with various kinds of smart interactive content to improve learning, engagement, learner modeling, and personalization;
• Intelligent information retrieval and question-answering for digital textbooks;
• 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.

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