LLMs in Education: Novel Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities
It targets researchers and practitioners in NLP and education, offering a timely but incremental perspective on challenges and opportunities.
This tutorial addresses the problem of integrating large language models (LLMs) into education by providing an overview of their applications in teaching, learning, and assessment, focusing on reading, writing, speaking skills, and intelligent tutoring systems.
The role of large language models (LLMs) in education is an increasing area of interest today, considering the new opportunities they offer for teaching, learning, and assessment. This cutting-edge tutorial provides an overview of the educational applications of NLP and the impact that the recent advances in LLMs have had on this field. We will discuss the key challenges and opportunities presented by LLMs, grounding them in the context of four major educational applications: reading, writing, and speaking skills, and intelligent tutoring systems (ITS). This COLING 2025 tutorial is designed for researchers and practitioners interested in the educational applications of NLP and the role LLMs have to play in this area. It is the first of its kind to address this timely topic.