About Zybooks

zyBooks has redefined CS education through a simple but powerful idea: less text, more action. Rather than reading dense paragraphs, students learn by doing. Interactive content, hands-on coding environments, and immediate feedback keep students engaged and accelerate real understanding, consistently driving measurably higher outcomes for instructors and institutions alike.

As AI reshapes both the classroom and the industry, zyBooks takes a responsible, learning-first approach: developing tools that give instructors deeper insight and help students build genuine understanding, not just answers. Built directly into programming assignments, AI-powered hints meet students in the moment of struggle, guiding them toward solutions in ways that build confidence and reinforce real learning. zyBooks also provides content that evolves alongside the real-world AI landscape, along with robust safeguards that protect academic integrity without limiting possibility.

Consortium Involvement 

zyBooks is excited to be part of the consortium because our learning-first philosophy aligns directly with its mission of integrating generative AI into CS education in ways that are responsible, equitable, and effective. We believe that AI's greatest potential in the classroom is not to replace the hard work of learning, but to support it, and this consortium is exactly the right venue to advance that idea collectively.

Our involvement includes building new AI tools grounded in learning science and sharing what we discover with the broader community, contributing data and insights on student outcomes to inform the group's research agenda, and collaborating on best practices for academic integrity in AI-assisted learning environments. We will also be hosting a series of faculty development webinars and workshops to help instructors confidently integrate generative AI into their CS courses. As we continue to build, we warmly invite faculty to participate in early betas and share their feedback, helping us shape tools that truly serve students and instructors from the ground up.