9 ways to use Artificial Intelligence in education

The advancements in the development of artificial intelligence spread all over the world at a tremendous speed and create an incredible hype increasing our expectations. As a matter of fact, it is rather difficult to disappoint a user in an entertaining domain: an introduction of AI and neural networks is instantly gaining immense popularity (Prisma and FaceApp applications are good examples of that). In this article, we have compiled 9 ways to use artificial intelligence in education.

Automated grading is a specialized AI based computer program that simulates the behavior of a teacher to assign grades to essays written in an educational setting. It can assess students’ knowledge, analyzing their answers, giving feedback and making personalized training plans.

Revision of knowledge when you are just about to forget it is an effective educational and technological solution. Polish inventor Peter Wozniak came up with an educational application based on the effect of the interval. This app keeps track of what you are learning, and when you are doing it. Using artificial intelligence, the application can find out when you most likely have forgotten something and recommend you revise it. It takes only a few revisions to make sure that the information is now stored in your memory for many years.

Feedback, that is, students’ assessment of teachers, has a century-long history. Despite the shift from paper to online surveys, little to no progress has been made in the feedback look area. Since student evaluation of teaching is often the most valuable source of information, it is obvious that it needs to be elevated.

Thanks to modern technologies, such as AI-driven chat robots, machine learning, and natural language processing, there are many interesting opportunities for improving the quality of feedback.

A chatbot can collect opinions via a dialog interface just like a real interviewer but with a small amount of required work from a person. A conversation can be adapted in accordance with the answers and personality of a student. A chatbot can even find out the reasons for this or that opinion. You can also filter out personal insults and obscene expressions, which are sometimes present in teacher’s ratings.

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, students were fascinated by a new teacher’s assistant named Jill Watson, who quickly and accurately answered students’ requests.