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Transparency and Explainability Matter in Educational AI: The framework prioritizes interpretable feedback and learner-centered explainability, addressing a key gap where "most existing learning path planning approaches lack transparency, adaptability, and learner-centered explainability." This suggests that responsible AI in education should prioritize students' ability to understand why they're receiving specific learning recommendations.
Multi-Agent Collaboration Can Improve AI Decision-Making: The system uses three specialized agents (learner analytics, path planning, and reflection) that work together through structured rules rather than a single black-box model. This collaborative approach "significantly outperforms baseline models in path quality, knowledge sequence consistency, and cognitive load alignment," demonstrating that breaking complex educational decisions into transparent, specialized components can enhance both performance and trustworthiness.
Grounding AI Systems in Educational Theory Enhances Responsibility: The framework is explicitly grounded in Cognitive Load Theory and Zone of Proximal Development, ensuring recommendations are "cognitively aligned and pedagogically meaningful." This illustrates that responsible AI development in education should be anchored in established learning science rather than purely optimizing for performance metrics.
Validation Across Multiple Models Strengthens Reliability Claims: Testing on seven different LLMs and conducting ablation studies demonstrates commitment to rigorous evaluation. This methodological approach helps verify that improvements aren't dependent on a single model or framework choice, supporting more generalizable and trustworthy conclusions about the system's effectiveness.

Abstract

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into intelligent tutoring systems offers transformative potential for personalized learning in higher education. However, most existing learning path planning approaches lack transparency, adaptability, and learner-centered explainability. To address these challenges, this study proposes a novel Multi-Agent Learning Path Planning (MALPP) framework that leverages a role- and rule-based collaboration mechanism among intelligent agents, each powered by LLMs. The framework includes three task-specific agents: a learner analytics agent, a path planning agent, and a reflection agent. These agents collaborate via structured prompts and predefined rules to analyze learning profiles, generate tailored learning paths, and iteratively refine them with interpretable feedback. Grounded in Cognitive Load Theory and Zone of Proximal Development, the system ensures that recommended paths are cognitively aligned and pedagogically meaningful. Experiments conducted on the MOOCCubeX dataset using seven LLMs show that MALPP significantly outperforms baseline models in path quality, knowledge sequence consistency, and cognitive load alignment. Ablation studies further validate the effectiveness of the collaborative mechanism and theoretical constraints. This research contributes to the development of trustworthy, explainable AI in education and demonstrates a scalable approach to learner-centered adaptive instruction powered by LLMs.

Key Takeaways

Transparency and Explainability Matter in Educational AI: The framework prioritizes interpretable feedback and learner-centered explainability, addressing a key gap where "most existing learning path planning approaches lack transparency, adaptability, and learner-centered explainability." This suggests that responsible AI in education should prioritize students' ability to understand why they're receiving specific learning recommendations.
Multi-Agent Collaboration Can Improve AI Decision-Making: The system uses three specialized agents (learner analytics, path planning, and reflection) that work together through structured rules rather than a single black-box model. This collaborative approach "significantly outperforms baseline models in path quality, knowledge sequence consistency, and cognitive load alignment," demonstrating that breaking complex educational decisions into transparent, specialized components can enhance both performance and trustworthiness.
Grounding AI Systems in Educational Theory Enhances Responsibility: The framework is explicitly grounded in Cognitive Load Theory and Zone of Proximal Development, ensuring recommendations are "cognitively aligned and pedagogically meaningful." This illustrates that responsible AI development in education should be anchored in established learning science rather than purely optimizing for performance metrics.
Validation Across Multiple Models Strengthens Reliability Claims: Testing on seven different LLMs and conducting ablation studies demonstrates commitment to rigorous evaluation. This methodological approach helps verify that improvements aren't dependent on a single model or framework choice, supporting more generalizable and trustworthy conclusions about the system's effectiveness.

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Multi-Agent Learning Path Planning via LLMs

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Multi-Agent Learning Path Planning via LLMs

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