Freeversity: Syllabus-Aware Personalization of Free Educational Resources

Dhurve, Aniruddh; Khan, Mubashshir; Sahu, Aaryan; Meshram, Alok

doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i10.165

Published on: October 2026

FREEVERSITY: SYLLABUS-AWARE PERSONALIZATION OF FREE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Aniruddh Dhurve Mubashshir Khan Aaryan Sahu Alok Meshram

Department of Computer Science and Data Science, Guru Nanak Institute of Engineering and Technology, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

DOI:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i10.165

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Abstract

Free educational resources are abundant but fragmented across providers, formats, difficulty levels, languages, and curriculum structures. This paper presents Freeversity, a lightweight prototype that converts a learner profile and an uploaded syllabus into a module-organized learning roadmap. The methodology combines an 11-question placement quiz, cumulative level filtering, content-modality weighting, language and resource filters, PDF/DOCX/TXT extraction, and a hybrid score of TF-IDF cosine similarity and tag overlap. In a descriptive case study on a 39-resource catalogue, seven roadmap modules, and one bundled sample syllabus, the heuristic assigned non-zero syllabus-match scores to 38 of 39 resources; the highest score was 46.5/100 (Khan Academy: Statistics and Probability). These are heuristic ranking scores, not probabilities or accuracy estimates. Eighteen core-logic tests passed; nine API tests could not be run because Flask was unavailable. A validation protocol based on expert relevance judgments, ranking metrics, ablations, and inter-rater agreement is specified. No learning gains or superiority over neural recommenders are claimed.

Keywords—educational recommender systems, syllabus alignment, personalized learning paths, free educational resources, TF-IDF, explainable ranking.

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Dhurve, A., Khan, M., Sahu, A. & Meshram, A. (2026). Freeversity: Syllabus-Aware Personalization of Free Educational Resources. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(10), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i10.165

Dhurve, Aniruddh, et al.. "Freeversity: Syllabus-Aware Personalization of Free Educational Resources." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 10, 2026, pp. 1-9. doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i10.165.

Dhurve, Aniruddh,Mubashshir Khan,Aaryan Sahu, and Alok Meshram. "Freeversity: Syllabus-Aware Personalization of Free Educational Resources." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 10 (2026): 1-9. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i10.165.

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