Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating educational materials for a user includes a computer receiving a user data item representative of educational interests of the user. The computer extracts a plurality of words from the user data item, classifies the user data item into a related knowledge domain, and determines a frequency score for each of the plurality of words. The computer uses frequency score determined for each of the plurality of words to select a plurality of educational material items associated with the related knowledge domain. Next, the computer determines a similarity score for each of the plurality of educational material items indicative of each respective educational material item's similarity to the user data item. The computer uses the similarity score for each of the plurality of educational material items to select a subset of the plurality of educational material items.