Textbook Construction from Lecture Transcripts

摘要

This paper presents ongoing work on the proposal for Techniques for Construction of Pedagogically Sound Syllabus Guided Textbooks through Quality Courses and Collaboration using collaborative platforms like Wikis, customized Open Educational Resources (OER) and natural language processing technologies.The course videos from NPTEL at IITs are quality courses presented by leading faculties of IITs. The problem with such rich video courses is the question of usability of the courses, it would be nice if there would exist a textbook companion for these courses customized to the syllabus of the student's home university. This will save the student's time by enabling the student to study only what is required to be studied and thus provide a customized textbook catering to the respective university syllabus or even allowing the student to generate ones own personalized textbook companion for the video courses.A suitable platform needs to be developed which would act as a central repository for collaboratively organizing, indexing and proper interfacing of these Instructional material. A major goal of this platform should be to generate customized textbooks according to the syllabus.