Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Intelligent Assistant for Personalized and Adaptive Learning in Higher Education
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This paper presents a novel framework, artificial intelligence-enabled intelligent assistant (AIIA), for personalized and adaptive learning in higher education. The AIIA system leverages advanced AI and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to create an interactive and engaging learning platform. This platform is engineered to reduce cognitive load on learners by providing easy access to information, facilitating knowledge assessment, and delivering personalized learning support tailored to individual needs and learning styles. The AIIA’s capabilities include understanding and responding to student inquiries, generating quizzes and flashcards, and offering personalized learning pathways. The research findings have the potential to significantly impact the design, implementation, and evaluation of AI-enabled virtual teaching assistants (VTAs) in higher education, informing the development of innovative educational tools that can enhance student learning outcomes, engagement, and satisfaction. The paper presents the methodology, system architecture, intelligent services, and integration with learning management systems (LMSs) while discussing the challenges, limitations, and future directions for the development of AI-enabled intelligent assistants in education.
  • UraniumBlazerEnglish
    82·
    16 days ago

    Did u read the abstract? They’re presenting a framework to use LLMs as educators in higher education. It’s quite cool really.

    The idea is to create a professor personalised for every student and their learning patterns. Imagine hiring a professor to personally teach you something. The professor talks to you, creates little tests specifically for what they think are your weaknesses are in the subject matter and so on.

    This is very good for us as human researchers will now be able to dedicate (assuming this tech works) 100% of their time to research instead of teaching the same subject matter again and again every single year, coming up with tests, marking tests, grading their students’ papers and so on.

    If this tech is successful, then education costs would nosedive like crazy, which would be good for all.

    • bruhduhEnglish
      20·
      16 days ago

      Basically Duolingo on steroids

      • UraniumBlazerEnglish
        20·
        16 days ago

        Does Duolingo come up with personalised tests n stuff? Never used it much haha

        • bruhduhEnglish
          30·
          16 days ago

          It adapts to your mistakes and such, often offers “personalised practice” based on your weak spots, and gives gameficated language learning experience

          • UraniumBlazerEnglish
            20·
            16 days ago

            Dayum, that’s nice! Maybe I’ll use it if I ever want to learn a new language