Reflections on the Value of an AI-assisted Textbook

Reflections on the Value of an AI-assisted Textbook

When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching and learning. But the textbook boosted student engagement and freed up instructors’ time, the professor says. When a literature professor debuted an AI-assisted textbook last year, she hoped it would free up more time for students in her medieval literature survey course to engage in meaningful discussion about the material.