Section A: Project Information
The IDEAL-Gen.AI platform, developed by the DREAM Team (Digital Resources for Enhancing Adaptive Methodologies), is revolutionizing instructional design through the innovative use of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). This cutting-edge chatbot platform empowers educators to create customized learning materials effortlessly by streamlining the content creation process. Teachers, instructors, and educators can generate tailored lesson plans, activities, and assessment tasks that align perfectly with their specific pedagogical needs.
A key innovation of IDEAL-Gen.AI is its Automatic Prompt Generator, which allows users to specify detailed criteria through advanced filtering options, including subject discipline, degree level, and class size. This feature produces fully editable prompts that enhance the quality of the generated content, ensuring it is relevant and engaging for diverse learners. Unlike traditional one-size-fits-all solutions, IDEAL-Gen.AI delivers personalized outputs that cater to individual instructional requirements.
Designed with user accessibility in mind, the platform features an intuitive interface that supports educators across various contexts such as traditional classrooms, online environments and hybrid models. By integrating sound pedagogical principles, IDEAL-Gen.AI promotes active learning and critical thinking, fostering deeper student interaction, engagement and enhanced learning outcomes. This project not only enhances the efficiency of educators but also cultivates immersive learning environments that advance educational outcomes for students.
With a US provisional patent and Hong Kong short-term, IDEAL-Gen.AI establishes a new benchmark in AI-enhanced education, transforming the processes of instructional content creation and delivery by harnessing the power of generative AI. Aligned with UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4), aiming to transform educational practices and enhance student experiences, the platform democratizes advanced instructional design, equipping educators with the tools needed to create dynamic, student-centered learning experiences that adapt to the evolving educational landscape. Ultimately, IDEAL-Gen.AI positions itself as a pivotal resource in the future of educational technology, encouraging innovation in teaching and learning practices.
Section B: Participant Information
| Title | First Name | Last Name | Organisation/Institution | Faculty/Department/Unit | Phone Number | Contact Person / Team Leader | |
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| Dr. | Ronnie | SHROFF | Lingnan University | Teaching and Learning Centre | ronnieshroff@Ln.edu.hk | 96332747 |
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| Dr. | Sean | McMINN | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Center for Education Innovation | smcminn@ust.hk | 2358-6811 | |
| Prof. | Irwin | KING | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Department of Computer Science & Engineering | iking@cuhk.edu.hk | 3943-8398 | |
| Dr. | Laura | ZHOU | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Educational Development Centre | laura.zhou@polyu.edu.hk | 2766 6316 |
Section C: Project Details
In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, educators face the challenge of creating engaging and relevant learning materials that cater to diverse student needs. Traditional content creation approaches are often time-consuming and lack adaptability, leaving educators overwhelmed and students disengaged. This realization sparked the idea for the IDEAL-Gen.AI platform, developed by the DREAM Team (Digital Resources for Enhancing Adaptive Methodologies). The team was inspired by the potential of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline instructional design, making it more efficient and responsive to educational demands.
The hypothesis underlying this project is that by leveraging generative AI, we can empower educators to create customized, high-quality learning materials that align with their specific pedagogical goals. We believe that IDEAL-Gen.AI will succeed because it addresses a critical gap in the current educational ecosystem: the need for personalized and adaptable instructional content. By providing an easy-to-use platform with an Automatic Prompt Generator, IDEAL-Gen.AI allows educators to input specific criteria, across advanced filtering options, to generate tailored learning activities, lesson plans and assessment tasks.
Moreover, the integration of sound pedagogical principles ensures that the generated content fosters active learning and critical thinking, essential for student engagement. The DREAM Team is confident that this approach will enhance teaching efficiency and improve student outcomes by delivering more relevant and interactive learning experiences. As educational institutions increasingly seek innovative solutions to meet diverse learner needs, IDEAL-Gen.AI is poised to make a significant impact, transforming how instructional content is created and delivered. In an era of shifting educational demands, the IDEAL-Gen.AI platform revolutionizes instructional design by harnessing generative AI to empower educators with innovative, pedagogically robust tools. By seamlessly combining advanced AI capabilities with evidence-based teaching practices, the DREAM Team’s initiative enhances teaching efficiency while fostering deeper student engagement and improved learning outcomes across diverse educational contexts.
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The IDEAL-Gen.AI chatbot platform employs a modular, layered architecture designed to seamlessly integrate generative AI into instructional design, prioritizing scalability, adaptability and user-centric functionality. Designed for ease of navigation, it ensures efficient prompt generation. At its core, the platform comprises a user interface (UI) and a robust AI processing engine for tailored content generation, underpinned by a three-tier architecture:
1. Frontend: A streamlined React-based UI allows users to input criteria, such as degree level, instructional design models (e.g., ADDIE, Bloom’s Taxonomy), rubric requirements, and delivery methods, through an intuitive dashboard;
2. AI Layer: Transforms the selected criteria (e.g., degree level, course title, delivery method, instructional design model, rubric criteria, etc.) into structured actionable AI prompts using Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, generating tailored outputs such as learning activities, lesson plans and assessment tasks;
3. Backend: A Node.js server validates input and interfaces with third-party LLMs (Mistral AI, DeepSeek) for real-time processing to generate tailored instructional content.
The workflow follows a structured sequence: users select parameters, the backend validates and formats inputs, and the AI engine produces customized content, ensuring pedagogical relevance. Key innovations include a dynamic prompt generator feature that merges form-based inputs with NLP to guide LLMs in generating pedagogically sound resources, and advanced filters enable control over outputs.
Development followed an agile methodology across four phases:
1. Phase 1: Drafted Software Requirements Specification (SRS) and designed UI/UX mock-ups;
2. Phase 2: Developed the platform and integrated LLM APIs;
3. Phase 3: Conducted rigorous testing and optimization for accuracy, usability and scalability;
4. Phase 4: Deployed the platform to end-users.
Performance metrics include:
1. User Engagement: Targeting 80% active usage among users;
2. Response Accuracy: Aiming for 95% accuracy in generated prompts;
3. User Satisfaction: Seeking 90% positive feedback through post-interaction surveys, assessing ease of use, relevance and iterative refinements.
The IDEAL-Gen.AI platform's pioneering use of generative AI revolutionizes the instructional design landscape, empowering educators with unprecedented personalization, ease and time-saving efficiency in content creation. By leveraging generative AI, particularly through its fully editable Automatic Prompt Generator feature, the platform distinguishes itself from its competitors and stands as a game-changer in the education AI-enhanced technology landscape and market.
What makes this platform truly innovative is the level of personalization and customization it offers to educators. Applying generative AI-powered instructional design, the platform enables educators to specify detailed criteria across a comprehensive set of filtering options, such as the subject discipline, area of study, degree level, technology use, class size and activity size. The platform's use of advanced AI algorithms enables the generation of tailored learning activities, lesson plans and assessment tasks that perfectly align with the user's specific requirements and pedagogical needs.
Moreover, the automatically generated prompts are fully editable and customizable, allowing the user to fine-tune the prompts for high-quality, discipline-specific outputs. This flexibility enables educators to further refine and enhance the prompts to seamlessly align with their unique instructional design requirements and pedagogical needs. This level of personalization is unparalleled in the current market, where other solutions in the market offer one-size-fits-all static templates that generate generic, non-discipline-specific outputs, lacking the depth and specificity required for effective instructional design.
In contrast, the platform’s ability to generate highly customized learning materials using generative AI sets a new standard for education technology. This level of customization and personalization is unmatched in the current AI-enhanced technology landscape, making IDEAL-Gen.AI a game-changing solution. By providing educators with the tools to effortlessly create personalized, AI-driven instructional content, the platform positions itself as a true disruptor in the education technology market, poised to redefine the way educators approach learning design and instructional content creation.
To ensure the IDEAL-Gen.AI platform scales effectively to meet growing user demand, fosters long-term engagement, and adapts to evolving needs, we plan to implement the following strategic enhancements.
Scalability Strategies:
1. Enhanced Filtering Options: Introduce advanced filtering for AI-generated rubric grading, exam questions, and assessment criteria, enabling tailored content creation.
2. Robust AI-Driven Assessments: Leverage advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate diverse question types (multiple-choice, short-answer, essays) and automated grading, streamlining the assessment process.
3. Expanded AI Tools: Incorporate AI-driven features such as automatic scoring and personalized feedback on textual content to optimize content creation efficiency.
Fostering Long-Term Engagement and Adaptability:
1. Collaborative Community: Build a global resource repository where educators share AI-generated materials, promoting collective instructional design and sustained engagement.
2. Responsive Evolution: Continuously update the platform based on user feedback and emerging educational trends, ensuring alignment with diverse pedagogical needs. Multilingual support and compatibility with global standards (e.g., HKQF, US Common Core) will enhance adaptability across contexts.
These strategies will ensure IDEAL-Gen.AI remains a scalable, user-centric, and adaptive solution, transforming education through AI-driven innovation.
In the short term, the DREAM Team aims to achieve an 80% adoption rate for the IDEAL-Gen.AI platform across Hong Kong’s 8 UGC-funded higher education institutions. Key priorities include 1) refining the AI engine and LLM to improve instructional content quality, and 2) expanding platform features, such as multilingual content creation. Over the next 3-5 years, we plan to target 500,000 global users, positioning IDEAL-Gen.AI as a leader in AI-driven instructional design. Success will be measured by user adoption rates, platform usage metrics, and the demonstrable impact on teaching and learning outcomes. In summary, our strategic focus will not only enhance the platform's capabilities but also ensure a dynamic and collaborative learning environment that meets the diverse needs of educators and students alike.
The IDEAL-Gen.AI platform, developed by the DREAM Team, addresses critical social issues by democratizing access to AI-driven instructional design tools, thereby championing equity and inclusion in education. By providing a free, globally accessible platform, IDEAL-Gen.AI enables educators worldwide to create personalized, high-quality learning materials tailored to each learner's unique needs. This aligns with UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4), which advocates for inclusive and equitable quality education, significantly reducing disparities in educational access and outcomes. As a result, the platform enhances the learning experience and inspires a new generation of educators to leverage technology for transformative teaching.
For educators, IDEAL-Gen.AI streamlines content creation, saving valuable preparation time and enabling adaptive, interactive lesson design. Multilingual support and customizable features, grounded in established pedagogical frameworks such as ADDIE and the Hong Kong Qualifications Framework (HKQF), ensure equitable and evidence-based practices. For students, IDEAL-Gen.AI provides opportunities for active learning and the development of higher-order skills, preparing them for the workplace and future challenges.
Social Impact Metrics:
1. Adoption Rate: Achieve 80% faculty adoption in Hong Kong’s UGC-funded universities within 24 months, scaling to 500,000 global users within 3–5 years.
2. Engagement: Secure 80% student participation in AI-generated activities, tracked via platform analytics.
3. Learning Outcomes: Target a 20% improvement in assessment scores, measured through pre- and post-intervention studies.
4. Equity: Track usage demographics and resource accessibility to ensure inclusive access.
To remain responsive to user needs, the DREAM Team will conduct regular feedback surveys, focus group interviews, and usability testing to refine platform features. Workshops will foster a collaborative community among educators, ensuring the platform evolves in line with emerging pedagogical best practices and maintains its transformative impact on the global education landscape. Ultimately, the DREAM Team envisions a future where every teacher has access to the tools needed to deliver high-quality education.
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