arXiv AI

CourseGraph: Finding overlaps and differences in Computer Science courses across universities

arXiv:2608. 05910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Student mobility programs such as Erasmus+ enable students to take courses at other universities, broadening their academic and cultural horizons.

arXiv AI
Aug 21

A Tool to Map AI Programs in the U.S.: A Snapshot from April 2026 and an Analysis of Requirements for AI Majors and Minors

arXiv:2606. 12428v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we locate and analyze existing undergraduate Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs in the United States in Spring 2026, creating a historic record at a time of great change in this area.

By Felix Muzny, Carolyn Jones, Carter Ithier, Hasnain Sikora, Hrutika Harshadbhai Patel, Carla E. Brodley
arXiv AI
Aug 14

Measuring Curriculum-Labor Market Alignment at the Scale of a Program Portfolio

arXiv:2608. 12356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A college offering several overlapping computing degrees implicitly assumes that its programs are differentiated in line with how the labor market segments computing work and that, together, they prepare graduates for that market.

By Sherzod Turaev, Saja Aldabet, Mary John, Namya Musthafa, Mamoun Awad, Nazar Zaki, Khaled Shuaib
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Measuring Curriculum Alignment across Topical Coverage, Competency, and Cognitive Depth: A Longitudinal Framework Applied to CS2013 and CS2023

arXiv:2606. 19469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Undergraduate computer science is governed by international curricular guidelines revised about once a decade, yet programs lack a reliable, reproducible way to measure how completely they cover the current guidelines and how that coverage shifts when the guidelines are restructured.

By Sherzod Turaev, Mary John, Saja Aldabet, Mamoun Awad, Nazar Zaki, Khaled Shuaib
arXiv AI
Aug 25

AI University: An LLM-Powered Learning Assistant for Engineering---A Finite Element Method Case Study

AI University (AI‑U) is a flexible framework that uses a fine‑tuned large language model (LLM) combined with retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) and a reasoning synthesis model to produce style‑aligned responses from lecture videos, notes, and textbooks. In a graduate‑level finite‑element‑method (FEM) course, the authors created a pipeline to generate course‑grounded training data, fine‑tuned an open‑source LLM with Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA), and applied RAG‑based synthesis. Evaluation through cosine similarity, LLM‑based assessment, expert review, and user studies showed that the expert model outperformed the base model in alignment with course materials, with 86 % of test cases scoring higher and human users preferring the expert model roughly twice as often. whyItMatters":"The study demonstrates a practical method for building course‑specific learning assistants that improve alignment with instructional content, offering a template that can be extended across STEM fields."

By Mostafa Faghih Shojaei, Rahul Gulati, Benjamin A. Jasperson, Shangshang Wang, Simone Cimolato, Manas Vardhan, Dangli Cao, Willie Neiswanger, Krishna Garikipati
arXiv AI
Jun 2

An NLP-Driven Framework for Curriculum-Labor Market Alignment: Schema-Constrained LLM Extraction, ESCO-Anchored Semantic Matching, and Multi-Dimensional Gap Quantification

arXiv:2606. 01982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Schema-constrained information extraction from diverse educational and labor-market corpora remains an open challenge in natural language processing because existing pipelines rely primarily on lexical-surface methods that cannot recover implicit competencies, lack grounding in shared taxonomies, and provide no formal measures of extraction reliability or document-level completeness.

By Sherzod Turaev, Mary John, Mamoun Awad, Nazar Zaki, Khaled Shuaib
arXiv AI
Aug 5

ProPRL: Property-Aware Prerequisite Relation Learning in Educational Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2608. 03006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prerequisite relation learning is central to adaptive instruction, yet existing methods often formulate it as conventional link prediction, limiting their ability to adaptively integrate complementary educational evidence for individual candidate pairs and to discourage contradictory reverse predictions.

By Xinghe Cheng, Jiapu Wang, Chaobo He, Ruihai Dong, Quanlong Guan