Earthovia 2.0: Curriculum Building and Auditing Software

Abstract

The project aims to embed interdisciplinary learning objectives in higher education curriculum using Earthovia 2.0 software developed by the research team. Earthovia 2.0 is a full stack web application deployed on the internet that uses an LLM engine to integrate interdisciplinary learning objectives. It achieves this by using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to provide the LLM engine with factual interdisciplinary education data as context and by following the backwards design curriculum development paradigm. A survey was administered to evaluate the impact of manual integration and Earthovia integration tasks. Finally, a focus group semi-structured interview was conducted to develop a comprehensive understanding of the similarities and differences in the integration approaches