DynamiQue - A Technical Intervention To Augment Static Textbook with Dynamic Q&A

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 f...

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Published in:Interactive learning environments 2022-10, Vol.30 (9), p.1693-1707
Main Authors: Venigalla, Akhila Sri Manasa, Chimalakonda, Sridhar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to Information
Dirichlet problem
Dynamic Textbook
E-books
Educational Technology
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
LDA
Likert Scales
Novice Programmers
Program Effectiveness
Programming
Q&A
Questions
Stack Overflow
Textbooks
Usability
Web Sites
Websites
Young Adults
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1049-4820
1744-5191
DOI:10.1080/10494820.2020.1744016