Textbooks have evolved over the last several decades in many aspects. Most textbooks can be accessed online, many of them freely. They often come with libraries of supplementary educational resources or online educational services built on top of them. As a result of these enrichments, new research challenges and opportunities emerge that call for the application of AIED methods to enhance digital textbooks and learners’ interaction with them. Therefore, we ask: How to facilitate access to textbooks and improve the reading process? What can be extracted from textbook content and data-mined from the logs of students interacting with it? This workshop seeks research contributions addressing these and other research questions related to the idea of intelligent textbooks. It aims at bringing together researchers working on different aspects of learning technologies to establish intelligent textbooks as a new, interdisciplinary research field.

We expect that this year’s workshop will reflect on the potential of generative AI techniques in intelligent textbooks. Many recent works on intelligent textbooks incorporate these technologies, especially large language models (LLMs). Digital textbooks have contributed a lot to the pre-training of LLMs, providing them with information on knowledge and structure of textbooks’ content. This opens up many pathways to explore the synergy between LLMs and textbooks to enhance textbooks’ functionality with intelligent and adaptive services and enrich interaction between textbooks and their readers.

This workshop builds on the success of the five previous events and the recent special issue on Intelligent Textbooks published by the International Journal of AI in Education.

As in previous years, the workshop will be supported by the SPLICE Infrastructure project. We will also offer limited assistance to help participants attend the workshop.