Thoughts About Generative Textbooks in Higher Education
A few days ago, David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, posted a blog article titled Generative Textbooks. After a short introduction, he wrote that he “started wondering – what if, in the future, educators didn’t write textbooks at all? What if, instead, we only wrote structured collections of highly crafted prompts? In linear fashion, the learner would use the prompts to interact with a large language model (LLM).”