Integrating textbooks with smart interactive content for learning programming

Isaac Alpizar-Chacon; Jordan Barria-Pineda; Kamil Akhuseyinoglu; Sergey Sosnovsky; Peter Brusilovsky

Integrating textbooks with smart interactive content for learning programming

Isaac Alpizar-Chacon, Jordan Barria-Pineda, Kamil Akhuseyinoglu, Sergey Sosnovsky, Peter Brusilovsky

University of Pittsburgh

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Online textbooks with interactive content emerged as a popular medium for learning programming and other computer science topics. While the textbook component supports acquisition of programming concepts by reading, various types of “smart” interactive learning content such as worked examples, code animations, Parson's puzzles, and coding problems allow students to immediately practice and master the newly learned concepts. This paper attempts to automate the time-consuming manual process of augmenting textbooks with “smart” interactive content. We introduce an ontology-based approach that can link fragment of text with “smart” content activities, demonstrate its application to two practical linking cases, and present the results of its pilot evaluation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4-18
Number of pages	15
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	2895
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks, iTextbooks 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 15 Jun 2021 → …

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Electronic textbook
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Introductory programming

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