Feb 3, 2021 | EDSCOOP A professor and former student at the University of Michigan have developed a new interactive platform that combines conventional learning materials with digital assessments and tools. The cloud-based platform, called Mynerva, allows instructors to customize lessons based on a system of “codices,” presenting material to students as they’re ready for it. Each codex can be built using various types of questions — such as multiple choice quizzes or auto-graded exercises — that students must answer before advancing to the next section. “Our vision is an interactive computational textbook platform designed to stimulate deeper conversation between students and the material they are attempting to master,” Raj Nadakuditi, one of the tool’s creators, and a professor in the university’s electrical and computer engineering department, told the university. “We also want to enable a dynamic experiential conversation with the learner, where the material is revealed as the student progresses and is ready for it.”