Like depending on the user's goal it activates only those nodes aka only those problems that are relevant to their background knowledge, interest and goal

The challenge of this is defining the data attributes of both start state and end state in a way that the system can establish similarity

Lets say the start state and the end goal state doesn't have much dependencies between them (for example lets say start state is a sociology student who knows qual research and his end state goal is to learn differential equations)

Now the system has to find out set of problem nodes that can find some degree of similarities between them such that solving those problem nodes gets them closer to end state

Why would a sociologist care about modelling how one thing changes when another thing changes smoothly (what a differential equation does)

The motivations behind that could be a bridge

A friend suggested to just go search for sociology papers that have the words "differential equation" in them and and just look at what they use them for

"Simulate how misinformation spreads in a protest"

Kate Starbird's Research Group Archive | Human Centered Design & Engineering

Kate Starbird studies the spread of rumors.

https://www.hcde.washington.edu/research/archives/starbird

Misleading Ourselves: How Disinformation Manipulates Sensemaking
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385107666_Misleading_Ourselves_How_Disinformation_Manipulates_Sensemaking

How Misinformation Spreads On The Internet : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2017/04/09/523170115/how-misinformation-spreads-on-the-internet-and-how-to-stop-it