In a one-year PBL deployment, the AI-assisted pipeline was associated with instructor preparation time falling from an average of eight hours to two hours per instruction (an estimated 75% reduction).¶
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q2 i? Authoring a complete modular technical slide deck dropped from an average of eight hours of continuous manual effort to an average of two hours of active human-in-the-loop workload. → Henrique Mohallem Paiva 2026
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Henrique Mohallem Paiva 2026¶
Henrique Mohallem Paiva. (2026). Curriculum as Code: An AI-Assisted Architecture for Instructional Design in STEM Education. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07364 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.07364
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Observational time tracking over a one-year deployment at a single institution, compared against historical baselines from previous academic years. The article reports the workload "dropped to an average of two hours per instruction", an estimated 75% reduction; no effect size or inferential test is printed.
"Traditionally, developing customized PBL slide decks—complete with complex mathematical typesetting, accurate Python plots, and institutional formatting—required an average of eight hours of continuous manual effort per instruction. With the proposed pipeline, the heavy lifting of coding LaTeX and Python was entirely offloaded to the AI. Consequently, the active human-in-the-loop workload dropped to an average of two hours per instruction."
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In a one-year PBL deployment, the AI-assisted pipeline was associated with instructor preparation time falling from an average of eight hours to two hours per instruction (an estimated 75% reduction). |
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In a one-year PBL deployment, the AI-assisted pipeline was associated with instructor preparation time falling from an average of eight hours to two hours per instruction (an estimated 75% reduction). |
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