Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Learning? - PCQuest

Professors and cognitive researchers frequently depend on test scores to determine how well students comprehend lessons. However, this practice ignores many critical aspects of learning, such as the engaging effect of classroom discussion or interests and motivations of classroom learners. By convention, a neutral observer would be required to recognize these unquantifiable moments of a great teaching experience but human observations are time-consuming and expensive. One can videotape classrooms, but that would be just as cumbersome and costly, requiring an expert to interpret and analyze the recordings afterwards. Because of advances in Artificial Intelligence, education researchers and computer scientists have come up with ways to create smart systems that can observe and listen in on classrooms, and instantaneously analyze the quality of a teacher's classroom delivery.