ERIC Number: EJ1369415
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
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"DynamiQue" -- A Technical Intervention to Augment Static Textbook with Dynamic Q&A
Interactive Learning Environments, v30 n9 p1693-1707 2022
E-books have become more prevalent in the present day, due to their availability and numerous advantages over textbooks, and more so in the domain of computer science and programming. On the other hand, learners also use Q&A websites such as Stack Overflow as these websites provides a platform for asking and answering questions in communication with the developer community. Even though learning programming requires dynamic content, the current e-books are observed to be static in nature. To address this challenge, we propose an approach to overlay related Q&As throughout the e-book, bringing dynamic content into a static textbook. The approach consists in summarizing different parts of the text, identifying core keywords from the text, finding related core Q&As from Stack Overflow and finally integrating Q&As into the e-book. To achieve this, we take an e-book as input, apply Latent Dirichlet Allocation and generate augmented e-book with relevant Q&As. We have evaluated "DynamiQue" prototype with 30 volunteers in the age group of 18-25 years using a likert scale-based questionnaire. The initial results are promising with all the questions having a mean score greater than 3.4. Volunteers also suggested the scope to improve user interface as well as the relevance of Q&As.
Descriptors: Electronic Books, Textbooks, Web Sites, Programming, Educational Technology, Access to Information, Usability, Program Effectiveness, Young Adults, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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