The value of education is measured by the ability of students to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. In the world of eLearning and LMS software, the landscape of education has undergone significant improvements.
Besides the interactivity online courses bring to everyone interested to learn new things, the convenience of taking such courses from anywhere, anytime, and on any device made it even more popular.
Among all the emerging cutting-edge technologies, AI has also found its rightful place in education. But the question is, can it boost our intelligence through education and make education even more valuable for students.
To shed some light on this, we decided to do research. Here is what we’ve found:
Personalization Boosts Intelligence
Whether you noticed it or not, personalization powered by AI is already here. All the major platforms are able to study you and learn your preferences to deliver custom offers to you.
For instance, have you ever wondered how Facebook knows what to advertise to you, or how Netflix knows how to recommend just the right thing to you? It’s all AI.
The main pain point in education system experts are trying to solve is that it is designed to teach the same things to all students. The concept of personalized learning is hard to achieve when there is only one teacher or professor and a great many students.
On the other hand, AI-powered LMS software can make this concept a reality. Especially the tools powered by the Tin Can specification, which helps them record and store all learning activities of a student.
AI can gauge the big data and deliver personalized programs to each student. This practice of delivering customized assignments and learning materials can help students reach their full potential and definitely boost their intelligence.
Practical Knowledge with Applicable Value
Acquiring knowledge is one thing and applying it is another. The acquisition of knowledge doesn’t necessarily mean that a student will be able to use 100% of it in practice. For traditional educational institutions, it is hard to decide which portion of the learning materials to remove and which one to retain in the curriculum.
As opposed to this, AI-powered courses can help students learn things that they can put to use immediately after receiving the certificate.
How is this made possible? We have already recorded mass data regarding all kinds of processes across different industries. AI can help us with complicated data modeling and feed us with information we can use to make data-driven decisions and predictions.
Students can be exposed to different kinds of learning scenarios in an online environment. Instead of just learning, they will have to solve real-life problems.
This can help students learn faster, and more importantly, learn from experience. And, we all know how important experience is in terms of knowledge retention.
Increased Efficiency
There are plenty of benefits of using AI in education. And while many discuss the direct benefits for students, there are few mentions of indirect benefits. In fact, AI can bring a lot of improvements in terms of efficiency to education systems, thus making them even better for students who want to acquire applicable knowledge.
The most obvious benefit is automation. AI can automate a lot of internal operations, thus expediting tasks and allowing students to receive feedback instantly.
While AI handles grading and evaluation, professors will have more time to spend with their students, even for one-on-one sessions. There are still some glitches to be fixed in the field of essay evaluation, but we are confident that AI will soon be able to do it as well. Furthermore, AI can help schools discover specific patterns in their students and staff behavior. This can help them organize classes better and increase everyone’s productivity.
Diversification of Learning Materials
In traditional school systems, students are compelled to learn from books. While this concept remained mainstream for centuries, it doesn’t mean that it is the most efficient one. We just didn’t have the means to make it better. Fortunately, today we do. AI-powered LMS software can help you create online courses that contain whatever content type you want.
Watching how something is done and solving problems delivers better results than reading about it. Embedding videos, images, quizzes, surveys, and even VR content enables education to really boost our intelligence.
In fact, AI is already being put to such uses. We already have examples of AI digitizing textbooks and turning them into guides, flashcards, and practice tests. Digital assistants powered by AI chatbots are also there to tutor students and help them match their interests with learning materials in the database.
Course Improvements On the Go
To apply certain knowledge, students have to completely understand the concepts they go through. But lectures are not gaps-proof. Students can misinterpret something and learn it the wrong way.
Teachers cannot be held responsible for this because the flaw is in the educational materials. Fortunately, AI brings a solution. In fact, AI can help schools identify problems early on and fix them immediately, as they pop up.
For instance, once you create an online course and launch it, a large number of students can give a wrong answer to a question. AI can flag the question and notify the teacher that something is wrong.
This is yet another example of how AI can be efficient at discovering patterns early on, thus allowing teachers to react in time and make improvements. This is something all the major LMS software solutions feature nowadays.
AI-Powered Problem Emulations
The ability to acquire new knowledge is just one part of the intelligence formula. The other part is the ability to apply knowledge and skills. If educational institutions don’t introduce this to their curriculums, students lose valuable opportunities to boost their intelligence. Fortunately, AI can easily introduce a solution to this problem.
Since it is capable of analyzing patterns, an AI integrated into a learning management system can assess students and identify skills gaps. AI can then use this information to deliver problem emulations specifically crafted to target the discovered gaps and help students become better at learning and problem-solving.
It is safe to assume that AI will become capable of using data from educational institutions to create problems and scenarios on its own. This creates endless opportunities for students to learn how to apply their knowledge and skills, which ultimately boosts intelligence.
AI-Powered Tutors
AI is not only bound to help students while integrated into an LMS. The era of AI-powered chatbots is now, and you can easily turn them into tutors to help students navigate and understand learning materials even better. WIth an AI-tutor by their side, going through basic writing, mathematics, or any other subject for that matter becomes significantly easier.
AI-powered tutors have the power to learn, which enables them to track students and deliver custom lectures in a timely manner. They will probably end up connecting students with learning materials in the future.
Unfortunately, AI tutors are not yet sophisticated enough to help students learn creativity nor high-order thinking. But they are going there and it’s just a matter of time before we see AI tutors who can pull it off.
AI Facilitates Learning
AI can significantly improve the students’ ability to acquire knowledge and skills by facilitating learning down the line. The limits we have in education today are set by technologies. AI can remove these obstacles and directly help students. Along with other emerging technologies, AI will make any course accessible from anywhere across the globe.
On top of that, since we are talking about online AI-powered learning, students will learn a lot about fundamental IT skills. This will help them become better at utilizing modern means of learning.
There is one more thing about AI that makes learning easier than before – the ability to learn at any given time. Thanks to AI, students will be able to leverage personalized learning paths and apply recently acquired knowledge in problem-solving scenarios – all that 24/7/365.
Wrap Up
AI can go a long way when it comes to helping students acquire and apply knowledge and skills. It can be used to personalize learning paths, identify knowledge with applicable value, increase efficiency, create engaging learning materials, and help teachers improve their courses.
