Intelligent Textbooks
Sergey A. Sosnovsky, Peter L. Brusilovsky, Andrew Lan · International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education · 2025
Textbooks remain one of the main methods of instruction, but—just like other educational tools—they have been evolving over the last several decades in many aspects (how they are created, published, formatted, accessed, and maintained). Most textbooks today have digital versions and can be accessed online. A large number of textbooks (and other structured instructional texts, such as tutorials) are freely available as open educational resources (e.g., Baraniuk et al., 2017 ). Many textbooks come with libraries of supplementary educational resources (Ericson & Miller, 2020 ; Gordon et al., 2021 ) or even distributed as parts of online educational services built on top of them (Ritter et al., 2019 ). The transition of textbooks from printed copies to digital and online formats has facilitated numerous attempts to enrich them with various kinds of interactive functionalities including search and annotation, interactive content modules, automated assessments, question ans, chatbots, etc.