Enhancing the Learning Experience: Using Vision-Language Models to Generate Questions for Educational Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01790v1
• Date: Sat, 03 May 2025 11:37:31 GMT
• Title: Enhancing the Learning Experience: Using Vision-Language Models to Generate Questions for Educational Videos
• Authors: Markos Stamatakis, Joshua Berger, Christian Wartena, Ralph Ewerth, Anett Hoppe,
• Abstract summary: We investigate the capabilities of vision-language models for generating learning-oriented questions for educational videos.<n>Our findings delineate the capabilities of current vision-language models, highlighting the need for fine-tuning and addressing challenges in question diversity and relevance.
• Score: 6.689443785478135
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Web-based educational videos offer flexible learning opportunities and are becoming increasingly popular. However, improving user engagement and knowledge retention remains a challenge. Automatically generated questions can activate learners and support their knowledge acquisition. Further, they can help teachers and learners assess their understanding. While large language and vision-language models have been employed in various tasks, their application to question generation for educational videos remains underexplored. In this paper, we investigate the capabilities of current vision-language models for generating learning-oriented questions for educational video content. We assess (1) out-of-the-box models' performance; (2) fine-tuning effects on content-specific question generation; (3) the impact of different video modalities on question quality; and (4) in a qualitative study, question relevance, answerability, and difficulty levels of generated questions. Our findings delineate the capabilities of current vision-language models, highlighting the need for fine-tuning and addressing challenges in question diversity and relevance. We identify requirements for future multimodal datasets and outline promising research directions.

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