World History Encyclopaedia has launched a new History AI Chat to guide inquiry-based engagement with the Encyclopedia’s corpus of history materials. With the Chat tool, students and teachers can more easily sift through the over 23,000 peer-reviewed and unbiased resources and primary sources in the Encyclopedia’s database as well as Open University’s CORE Index of 420M academic papers.
When asked a question, the History AI Chat returns a brief answer, usually in a list, along with the links to each cited source and additional sources that present a more complete picture. Answers are brief so that students need to investigate all the sources to get the full answer. They can explore and learn, not simply focus on the shortest path to an answer.
“Inquiry-based learning is a powerful way to learn history but it is being lost in the quick-answer world of AI. We worked very closely with teachers and college-level faculty to make sure that the History AI Chat is a learning tool, not an answer tool. Its purpose is to guide investigation and the study of multiple viewpoints to questions about history,” said Jan van der Crabben, Founder and CEO of World History Encyclopedia.
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