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Salvador Lorca 📚 ⭕️'s avatar

Interesting and good insight 😌 Can i translate part of this article into Spanish with links to you and a description of your newsletter?

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Doan Winkel's avatar

I love this! I don’t use textbooks or any kind of resources like that in my classes, but thinking back to my student years this would have been a killer study tool

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Mamie Rheingold's avatar

🙋🏻‍♀️ Same

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listleestdoor's avatar

Amazing. I wonder how it would work with fiction. Like Kurt Vonnegut or Astrid Lindgren.

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Dr. Jeanne Beatrix Law's avatar

I think a literature OER textbook is a great idea. Of course, all of the knowledge base texts would need to also be OER or out of copyright. Lumen, in partnership with SUNY, has an OER literature textbook. Might be interesting to build a custom GPT off of that work. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-introliterature/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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Dr. Jeanne Beatrix Law's avatar

I think a literature OER textbook is a great idea. Of course, all of the knowledge base texts would need to also be OER or out of copyright. Lumen, in partnership with SUNY, has an OER literature textbook. Might be interesting to build a custom GPT off of that work. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-introliterature/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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Elbert's avatar

@jeannebealaw this is amazing! Did you really upload just one file as the knowledge base in the final version of the GPT? I see the hand book has 756 pages (https://assets.openstax.org/oscms-prodcms/media/documents/WritingGuide-WEB.pdf).

In the last video in the post it also sounded like you were experimenting with different ways to present the knowledge base to the GPT but seems that part of the video was cut out. Is there a full video of the presentation we can watch?

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Stephen Fitzpatrick's avatar

I love this - nice to see others are experimenting with GPT's to help students interact with texts. Google's NotebookLM is also terrific in this regard and you can share a notebook you make with students as well. It's interesting that with the advent of Projects, OpenAI seems to have gotten away from GPT's a little bit, but I still find them useful.

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