Divide and Conquer: How LLMs Learn to Teach

Divide and Conquer: How LLMs Learn to Teach Designing effective lessons for training online tutors is no small feat. It demands pedagogical nuance, clarity, scenario realism, and learner empathy. A recent paper by Lin et al., presented at ECTEL 2025, offers a compelling answer to this challenge: use LLMs, but don’t ask too much at once. Their research reveals that breaking the task of lesson generation into smaller, well-defined parts significantly improves quality, suggesting a new collaborative model for scalable education design. ...

June 24, 2025 · 3 min · Zelina

The Art of Control: Balancing Autonomy, Authority, and Initiative in Human-AI Co-Creation

In the expanding domain of artificial intelligence, creativity is no longer a human-only endeavor. From music composition to visual art and storytelling, AI agents are taking on increasingly creative roles. But as these systems become more proactive, one question looms large: who’s really in control? Enter MOSAAIC — a framework developed to guide the design of co-creative systems by managing autonomy, initiative, and authority in shared human-AI decision-making. The Three Pillars: Autonomy, Initiative, and Authority The authors define three interrelated yet distinct aspects of control: ...

May 25, 2025 · 3 min