Word2Course: Creating Interactive Courses from as Little as a Keyword

Sébastien Foucher, Damián Pascual, Oliver Richter, Roger Wattenhofer

2022

Abstract

In this work, we introduce a novel pipeline that enables the generation of multiple-choice questions and exercises from as little as a topic keyword. Hence, providing users the possibility to start with a study objective in mind and then automatically generate personalized learning material. The main contributions of this project are a scraper that can extract relevant information from websites, a novel distractor generation method that can make use of context and a technique to automatically combine text and questions into interactive exercises. Our novel distractor generation method was tested in a human survey which showed that the distractor generation quality is comparable to hand crafted distractors. The pipeline is built into a web application that lets users refine the results for each step, openly accessible at https://adaptive-teaching.com.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Foucher S., Pascual D., Richter O. and Wattenhofer R. (2022). Word2Course: Creating Interactive Courses from as Little as a Keyword. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-562-3, pages 105-115. DOI: 10.5220/0011064700003182

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu22,
author={Sébastien Foucher and Damián Pascual and Oliver Richter and Roger Wattenhofer},
title={Word2Course: Creating Interactive Courses from as Little as a Keyword},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2022},
pages={105-115},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011064700003182},
isbn={978-989-758-562-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Word2Course: Creating Interactive Courses from as Little as a Keyword
SN - 978-989-758-562-3
AU - Foucher S.
AU - Pascual D.
AU - Richter O.
AU - Wattenhofer R.
PY - 2022
SP - 105
EP - 115
DO - 10.5220/0011064700003182