RAISE EduStax: AI-Enhanced OpenStax Planning Tool

Written By Michael Wiemeyer

Joined 2024

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What are we building?

  • An AI-powered instructional tool designed to be integrated with OpenStax math resources

  • Supports teachers in boosting confidence, reducing planning time, and improving instructional practices

  • Key features include:

    • Support for instructional planning

    • Encouragement of active learning in the classroom

    • Scaffolding strategies that adapt to diverse learner needs

What are we learning?

  • Teacher Effectiveness: Whether use of EduStax improves teacher confidence and reduces instructional planning burden

  • Student Outcomes: Impact on motivation, engagement, persistence, and academic performance

  • Tool Adoption and Usage: How many teachers and schools adopt EduStax and how deeply they engage with its features

Products

  • EduStax instructional planning tool

  • AI-driven scaffolding recommendations

  • Integrated OpenStax-aligned learning supports

Teacher dashboard showing EduStax home screen with buttons for lesson creation, subject mastery, strategies, and differentiation.
Screen asking teachers to select their book and section or add their own topic before generating an activity.
Screen for narrowing results with options for new topic or practice and a time slider for selecting activity length.
Grid of suggested classroom activities for systems of equations, with debate tasks repeated across four cards.
Lesson plan screen showing objectives, materials, learning strategy, and implementation steps beside navigation controls.
Michael Wiemeyer
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