With an emphasis on interactive learning and creating personalised education model, artificial intelligence is relied upon to make education progressively effective and fun, writes Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO of Engineer.ai
In recent years, innovation has changed the manner in which we see the reality of our world. Be it associating with individuals over the world via social media, shopping garments from an online store or having food supplies conveyed directly at our doorstep, today, human endurance sans innovation is simply unimaginable.
Through these years, science fiction, authors, futurists, and movie makers the same have additionally been foreseeing the astonishing (and some of the time disastrous) changes that will emerge with advent of widespread artificial intelligence (AI) – saw as the 'subsequent stage in human development'. Those not so much acquainted with AI may imagine a future loaded with robots that behave like humans. However, in truth,, AI is nothing but advanced algorithms assisting machines in impersonating human behaviour, particularly in excess errands across industries. With so broad an impact, education makes certain to be touched by AI but the question is how?
AI capabilities matter
Artificial intelligence has made inroads into our lives and is transforming the way we execute the simplest of tasks, regularly. Based on user history, experiences or current usage pattern displays, AI can fulfill a myriad of demands for multiple users. It rests heavily upon profound learning principles and NLP (natural language processing techniques), wherein machines can read large amounts of data and process it to produce appropriate output, without needing any user intervention. Artificial intelligence involves the sophisticated application of smart algorithms to provide results and even, the ability to read the user intention for future implementation. Some critical aspects of AI are expert systems, speech recognition, and machine vision, apart from deep learning and NLP. Hence, it has emerged as the most capable choice to automate several administrative tasks, which otherwise involves layers of human intervention for businesses and key economic sectors, impacting the ROI drastically.
Transforming education
Encompassing and influencing the working models across sectors such as retail, banking and finance, healthcare, security and among others, AI is offering robust support for even deeper application in the education industry. From classroom teaching to textbook-based syllabus and even the simple grading system, it has the power to evolve the way education is being imparted. The technology can overhaul the individual learning journeys and turn them more – personalised, predictive, efficient and effective. Since education has been proven to be more impactful through practical application, AI will register a noteworthy contribution by customised availability of content via cloud capabilities, free plug-ins, and extensions to access information, in the language, they understand the best.
Pushing the traditional pedagogies and bidding adieu to on-paper practices, AI will contribute by interacting with the learners through latest technological means such as customised user interfaces, applications, interactive bots, or even individualised learning aids that include earplugs or wearable gadgets. Smart tutoring systems powered by AI principles will speed up the learning and application process 10 times as against what is taught via the blackboard, today. Course curricula will also undergo significant changes, leading to the delivery of more personalised learning experience for students. Collection and availability of student data will also help in customising lessons based on every learner’s individual capability to grasp a new concept.
The penetration of AI in the education industry will help in setting necessary expectations on teacher’s accountability in improving learners’ knowledge. It will suggest appropriate ways to gain knowledge depending upon students’ abilities, breaking away from the traditional teaching approach of ‘one size fits all’.
Tech invasion in future education
By 2025, application of AI in the learning and education sector will increase by around 47% (as per latest research by market research firm Research and Markets). Considering the global shift towards technological dependencies, newer challenges in learning and human limitations will further amplify the scope of AI across the globe. It will help bring the global education industry under a single umbrella for all learning needs.
