Educational Technology, colloquially referred to as EdTech, is all about deploying technology to impart education. The industry has always been eager to embrace new technology, in order to improve knowledge dissemination. Over the last twenty years, we have seen technology be put to great use in education through the use of search engines, live webinars, video streaming, as well as specialized applications and tools for training needs.As AI grows smarter and machine learning solutions are successfully deployed in a variety of use-cases, AI is set to make a lasting impact on how we view education. This is particularly true in countries like India, which have huge cultural, economic and geographical disparities. EdTech has the potential to provide a fabric for quality education that anyone can access. Here are the main ways in which AI can contribute to EdTech…
Adaptive Learning Solutions
Every student has a different aptitude for different subjects. This means that each student has different learning needs, a problem that all educators have faced. Machine learning offers an exciting, new potential solution to this age-old dilemma. Machine learning can identify the patterns in one’s study behavior and craft a program to suit one’s educational needs. Machine learning algorithms can identify a student’s weaknesses, based on their exercise performance, and then suggest conceptual material for addressing the same.
Deep Learning
Deep learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence that is concerned with synthetic neural networks and algorithms that have been inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Algorithms that employ deep learning can utilize user behavior data to, precisely, identify the level of the user’s cognitive abilities. The EdTech tools can then use this data to make learning recommendations, suited to the user’s learning system. Such EdTech solutions can also be a great help in making decisions about career options, lifestyle preferences and all kinds of day-to-day matters.
Helping Make Classrooms Discussions Driven
EdTech solutions can free up a lot of the educators’ time. Tasks such as scheduling, organizing, and data keeping can all be handled by the EdTech tools. Artificial Intelligence solutions can take care of a lot of the grading work. EdTech solutions have long since been able to grade objective responses and now, with new advances in artificial cognitive abilities, even subjective responses have begun to be assessed through artificial intelligence. Furthermore, through EdTech solutions can take the lectures out of the classroom, entirely, by providing world-class video lectures that have been prepared by the top minds in every field. In this way, AI solutions allow educators to spend their time in the classroom on discussions and doubt solving- the areas where humans can never be replaced!
Collaborative Tools
The world has borne witness to how technology has allowed us to transcend geographies and cultures, for the purposes of socialization and leisure. In the future; we will use tools, designed byartificial intelligence, to collaborate upon fulfilling our educational needs. These tools represent the next step in the evolution of peer learning. They will bring the student community together and foster collaborative learning, by helping students learn from each other.
