Machine Learning – the new catalyst in higher education

Who would have thought that the stories around self-driven cars could actually come true, so much so that machine learning algorithms can enable computers to communicate with humans, drive cars, play games and do things human cannot do. Machine Learning with its mathematical algorithms and scientific innovations have become a huge part of our lives. For example, when Google auto-corrects a misspelled word, it applies probability algorithm, an action performed using Machine Learning, which compares the database of the previous searches done by millions of other users and predicts the word we intend to use. With the ever-increasing knowledge in science and technology, machine learning is not far behind to be the new switchboard for Higher Education, personalising education at all levels. It reads and identifies the data patterns to inform algorithms that can make data-driven predictions and decisions.