Ruffle&Riley: From Lesson Text to Conversational Tutoring

Conversational tutoring systems (CTSs) offer learning experiences driven by natural language interactions. They are recognized for promoting cognitive engagement and improving learning outcomes, especially in reasoning tasks. Ruffle&Riley is a novel type of CTS that explores the potential of LLMs for efficient AI-assisted content authoring and for facilitating structured free-form conversational tutoring. This interactive event enables participants to engage with the LLM-based CTS introduced in our recent AIED2024 paper in two ways: (1) Attendees will interact with the web application using their personal devices. (2) Attendees will learn how to import learning materials into the system and generate custom tutoring scripts through a detailed tutorial. Ruffle&Riley is an extendable, open-source framework that promotes research on effective instructional design of LLM-based learning technologies. The interactive event will foster related discussions.