QuestEd

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  Questy-an AI Learning Assistant

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  QuestEd platform

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  Quest- An Interactive Learning Experience

Inspiration

I have worked in education industry for years, and a consistent problem that I have faced is in creating an engaging and inspiring learning experience in an efficient way. Videos are great, but effective learning needs Doing. Educational games are great, but they don't deal with real life problems and can be distracting.

That's where QuestEd comes in, helping create instructor a story based learning experience, that their learners will enjoy working on! With AI-powered content generation and learner's guidance, QuestEd stands at the frontiers of educational technology, which not only creates fun learning experience, but increases the efficiency with which one can be created!

What it does

QuestEd is an educational technology that allows instructors to create gamified learning experience using Generative AI. Instructors can create interactive gamified learning experience by adding keywords or even a lesson plan (in the form of pdf, or document file). Using generative AI, QuestEd develops a story-based learning experience, that can be accessed by a learner.

The learning experience is a story-based gamified learning experience provided by Questy, an AI learning assistant that guides the learner through their learning quests, and help them solve problems and challenges as they appear in the learning experience.

How we built it

We used the MERN (MongoDb, Express, React, Nodejs) stack along with Gemini API to build QuestEd.

Challenges we ran into

Adding interactivity using Generative AI was a challenge. We had to try some prompting approaches that worked better with our use-case. Given our use of Express Backend, there were some issues with Websocket library and making 2-way connection between client and server. We used the socket.io library to work through the issue.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We faced some issues with Websocket library making 2-way connection between client and server. We solved this with an alternative approach using the socket.io library to work through the issue.

We are figuring out a novel structure to incorporate Gemini APIs (and other generative AI models) into a learning experience.

What we learned

We learned that Generative AI is indeed capable of generating educational content and has a huge potential in education industry. Using Generative AI to improve learning techniques, we can significantly improve learning approaches, make them more engaging and fun, and invoke greater learning satisfaction at the user's end. And guess what, as the AI models become more powerful with complex reasoning abilities, so will QuestEd!

What's next for QuestEd

The current QuestEd version is in its infancy, and has a lot of potential for improvement. Learning experiences only incorporate text-based prompting. Adding images and videos generated by AI could add another level.

QuestEd only covers limited learning experiences associated with few topics. Further development will cover more in-depth topics, such as mathematics, software development, statistics, and other science subjects. This will need more sophisticated systems of prompting.

Currently, QuestEd is available on web only. We aim to integrate it with Learning Management Systems like Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, D2L etc to make it more accessible for instructors who already use these platforms for their classrooms/ and or training.

Built With

• express.js
• mongodb
• node.js
• react