Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Slowly but steadily Artificial Intelligence has transformed every area of our lives. From buying clothes to mobile banking to a workplace environment. This emerging technology has no signs of stopping. But how is it implemented in the education sector? Will it be a helping hand for teachers or will it make them antiquated?

Implementing AI in Education

Educators have pointed out some ways, where AI’s influence is needed:

• To help identify courses which should be improved.
• Introduction of “AI Tutors” as an additional support to students.
• Automatism in fundamental activities.
• To modify curriculum based on current learning standards.
• Changing the way how teacher & student communicates.
• Making trial and error learning less threatening.

Here’s illustrating how AI is changing education for the better. With the help of AI assistance in learning process, it will make teachers more effectual & efficient.

Examples of Artificial Intelligence in Education

The day is not far when AI tools will be as handy as smartphones and laptops are. With the omnipresence of AI in teaching & learning methods will eventually revamp the education system.

Debut of AI Software

Since teachers concentrate on completing their syllabus within given time framework, they might be unaware of gaps in their lectures and in educational materials. Such gaps can create confusion among students about certain topics. But these issues can be resolved with AI Software, which will help in finding a trend among students who submit wrong answer to a particular question or homework assignment and alert the teacher about it.

This will help the teachers to conduct a class on that particular topic or alter their presentations in a manner that solve the issue. Meanwhile AI is providing students with constant feedbacks which will help them in better understanding of the concepts.

• Virtual Facilitators

While it is pretty obvious that nobody wants virtual humans to come and replace educators. The idea to introduce virtual human-like characters who can think, act, react & interact just like human is a promising area of development.  Though not yet a reality, but the ultimate goal is to integrate live classroom methods with best fit virtual technologies including: virtual facilitators, augmented reality, intelligent tutor, and others.

• Advance Tutoring

Online teaching has been around for a while & it has been possible because of broadband Internet & cloud computing resources & services. These platforms are capable of teaching fundamentals to students struggling with basic concepts. It has managed to break geographical barriers to help students learn & improve their skills.

With AI, these platforms are moving to the next level & enhance tutoring experience. One such example is Brainly, a social media platform that connects millions of students to solve homework & assignments. It has a team of over thousand moderators to examine the quality of Questions and Answers that are being planned & exchanged between users.

To enhance the learning of students, AI algorithms work behind to detect and filter out spam & low-quality Questions & Answers. This help moderators to focus on providing quality services. Brainly also leverages algorithms to suggest people that can help students to get in touch with experts who can answer their queries. This is a crucial step towards providing benefits of one-on-one tutoring.

• Trial & Error Mode of Learning

Trial and error is a vital approach of learning but some students are not open to failure. Peer pressure is something, that can lead to nervous wreck, the idea of being judged by the higher authorities can degrade the performance of a student in a highly daunting manner. AI powered computer system can make students assess and analyze themselves in a judgment-free environment. Even if trial and testing fails, the intelligent computer system provides an optimal set of probable solutions by understanding the problem better.

• Automated Counselling

Data gathering by Artificially Intelligent computer systems has become sharp-witted. This gathered data will be used for counselling students helping them to choose their career options.

The data will be exploited by the colleges to alter the college experience according to the needs and goals of students. The day is not far when AI will be recommending best schools and colleges according to student’s interests just like YouTube or Amazon.

Classrooms, labs and libraries might remain more or less as they are today, but with AI software, digital assistants & more capable teachers, the future generation will hopefully have access to higher quality education & will be able to understand things at a much faster pace.

Final Thoughts:

The rising role of AI in education industry can be observed as a serious threat to some educators. While, some people take an optimistic view towards AI Implementation as it helps them to acquire mundane tasks. Since AI lacks metacognitive skills & compassion, it doesn’t hold the power to become a replacement of Teachers. The aforementioned examples of Artificial Intelligence in Education make better the process of trial & error learning and also create opulent opportunities for constant progress.