#digital-textbooks

#digital-textbooks

Designed for a comparative literature course on medieval and Renaissance-era writing and announced by UCLA at the end of 2024, the digital textbook was immediately met with widespread mockery and derision from educators. Its AI-generated cover was riddled with incomprehensible text - "Of Nerniacular Latin To An Evoolitun On Nance Langusages," for example - and featured generic visuals that had little to do with the period it was supposedly covering. At the time, Elizabeth Landers, a grad student who helped put together the volume, said that the errors "aren't a failure of AI." Instead, she argued, "they're an intentional artistic choice that prompts students to question their assumptions about language, meaning and historical truth."

Learn Your Way is built on two pillars: generating multiple representations of specific content, and personalizing it to fit learners' needs. , Google references the dual coding theory, which suggests that creating connections between different representations of information strengthens our understanding of it. Google also asserting that students who engage with information in multiple formats have a firmer grasp of the topic. Thus, Google aims to offer students numerous ways to choose how they engage with specific material to improve motivation and deepen learning.