Condensing or shortening E-learning academic material can be quite beneficial for students. As it will allow them to quickly understand the main idea/meaning of the lengthy material.
However, if you (the student) are condensing E-learning material manually, then it will not require a lot of time and effort but also contain a chance of human errors.
Thankfully, with the introduction of advanced AI-powered summarized tools, this issue has been resolved. These tools can assist students in quickly condensing their E-learning material in some ways. In this article, I am going to explain those ways in detail.
What Are AI Summarization Tools?
AI summarization tools are online tools that summarize the given text using AI technologies. These tools are widely used by students, teachers, bloggers, organizations, and many more.
They usually operate on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) – both of these are the most advanced AI technologies.
The NLP helps the tools to efficiently understand both the language and original meaning of the input text, whereas ML helps in performing the summarization of the input text.
Ways Through Which AI Summarizing Tools Help In Condensing E-Learning Material
Below are some of the ways through which AI summarizing tools can help in condensing lengthy E-learning material.
1. By Quickly Retrieving The Main Points Of The Material
We all know that, to condense academic material students must go through the entire document, article, or paper. So that they can get familiar with the main points.
Doing this manually will require a lot of time and effort because they have to read each sentence. This means, that students may not have enough time to deal with other tasks related to academics.
Fortunately, that’s not the case with AI summarization tools as they have the ability to quickly scan lengthy text and provide main points. The good thing is most tools available online provide students with the option to display retrieved points in the form of bullets for ease of understanding.
Example:
To provide you with a better idea, I have summarized lengthy academic material with an AI summarizer. Take a look at the picture to see how it provided the main points of the input text.
As you can see, the AI text summarizer quickly scanned the lengthy text and came up with only the main points in the form of bullets. So that students can easily get familiar with the core concept – which is the main purpose of condensing E-learning material.
2. Adjust The Length Of The Summarized Text
While condensing E-learning material manually, there is a strong chance that most students may not be able to come up with a summarized version that they want. This can be either due to a lack of summarizing abilities or too much length of the material they are summarizing.
If you are also one of them, then an AI summarization tool can help you. Most AI-powered summarizing tools available on the internet provide an adjustable summary length feature. With this, students can adjust the length of the summarized text that the tool will generate according to their requirements or personal preferences.
The summary length can be adjusted in terms of both words and percentages. The fewer words or percentages you (the student) will select, the more condensed version of the input text or material the tool will generate.
Example:
I have summarized a lengthy E-learning material by selecting a summary length of 40%. The condensed version I got can be seen in the attachment below:
So, this is how students can condense their E-learning material according to their personal length requirements with ease using AI summarization tools.
3. Providing The Best Sentence Or Idea
If you are a student who wants to condense E-learning material only to get familiar with its core concept or idea not more than one sentence or line, then AI summarizers can help you to do this. Let me explain how.
For instance, the AI-powered summarization tool I have been using throughout this article to provide you with examples gives the option of “best sentence.”
With this feature, the summarizer will provide you with a condensed version of the input academic material (no matter how lengthy it is) by extracting the “best sentence” from it.
When you (the student) will get a condensed version of academic material in not more than one line or sentence. It will further save the time and effort that will be spent on the summarized version generated by the text.
Example:
I have provided the same academic material (that was used in the example above) to the AI summarizer. Take a look at the picture below to see how the tool provides its condensed version in only one sentence.
As you can see in the picture above, the AI summarizer condensed the main concept or idea of the lengthy text (about 300 words) into just one sentence.
4. No Compromise On Quality And Accuracy
This is the final way through which AI summarization tools can assist in shortening E-learning material. While condensing academic data manually, there is a strong chance that you may not be able to maintain the required quality due to a lack of writing skills.
Besides this, there is a chance that you may get confused between the main points and end up condensing an inaccurate version of the learning material.
Thankfully, by utilizing advanced AI summarizing tools, students can easily tackle both these issues. The AI text summarizers generate a concise version of the given text quickly and accurately without compromising on quality, all thanks to the AI technologies on which they work.
Example:
I am going to provide an academic article (containing multiple important points) to the summarizer to show you how the tool will condense it without compromising on quality and accuracy.
As the above picture shows, the summarizer has provided the condensed version of the given article without damaging its overall quality and meaning.
Final Words
Students often need to condense E-learning material so that they can quickly understand its main idea without spending much time and effort in reading from A to Z. With the advancement in technology, there are now AI-powered summarization tools available that assist students in quickly condensing lengthy E-learning material in multiple ways. In this blog, I have explained those ways in detail.
