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# iTextbooks 2025
Intelligent Textbooks 2025

### Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks 2025
co-located with the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2025)

### Palermo, Italy, July 26, 2025.

Edited by

### Sergey Sosnovsky *
Peter Brusilovsky **
Andrew Lan ***
Isaac Alpizar-Chacon *

* Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands
** University of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Information, 135 North Bellefield Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
*** University of Massachusetts Amherst, College of Information and Computer Sciences, 140 Governors Dr., Amherst, MA 01003, USA

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 8 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 6 papers were accepted for this volume, 3 as regular papers and 3 as short papers.

### Session 1

- AI-driven Interactive Hierarchical Concept Maps for Digital Learning Environments and Intelligent Textbooks 3-16
  Sergiy Tytenko
- AI Enhanced Intelligent Texts and Learning Gains 17-24
  Scott Crossley, Joon Suh Choi, Wesley Morris, Langdon Holmes, David Joyner
- LLM-powered Framework for Automatic Generation of Metacognitive Scaffolding Cues for Introductory Programming in Higher Education 25-36
  Anushka Durg, Can Kultur, Adam Zhang, Jaromir Savelka

### Session 2

- Lessons from a Multimodal and Trustworthy AI System for Intelligent Textbooks 37-44
  Karan Taneja, Anjali Singh, Ashok Goel
- Improving Textbook Accessibility through AI Simplification: Readability Improvements and Meaning Preservation 45-58
  Benny Johnson, Bill Jerome, Jeffrey Dittel, Rachel Van Campenhout
- Using Digital Textbook and Classroom Data to Explore Multimodal (Audio, Visual, & Textual) LLM Retrieval Techniques 59-70
  Brian Wright, Vishwanath Guruvayur, Luke Napolitano, Doruk Ozar, Ali Rivera, Ananya Sai, Bereket Tafesse

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