Course on Artificial Intelligence and Education

Objectives

1. Develop a critical understanding of AI
2. Explore possible role for AI in school education
3. Assess challenges and risks from AI in education

Agenda

Why AI in education?

Jose Van Dyjck - “real-time data about individual learning processes help instructors monitor students’ progress and allow for corrective feedback. Personalized data allegedly provide unprecedented insights into how individual students learn and what kind of tutoring they need. And aggregated data about learning behavior provide the input for individual ‘adaptive learning’ schemes (Higher Education in a Networked World: European Responses to U.S. MOOCs)

AI is seen as having the potential to assist teachers in efficiently and effectively managing multi-level/multi-grade classrooms, by judging learning levels of individual students, and allowing automated development of customised educational content adapted to each student’s class and learning level. Assessing work done by a student on each part/page of the learning material, for example, would allow real-time feedback on student performance to help the teacher appropriately tailor her guidance to the child. (Making AI work for Indian Education, IT for Change)

Challenges to education

Who owns the data? Who controls decisions of collecting, storing, processing, accessing and sharing of data?

Issue of privacy and surveillance.

Additional complexity of students being minors

Who owns the algorithms? Who certifies algorithms as being fair and ethical?

Can proprietary algorithms be trusted?

Actors

Private sector providers - Education Initiatives, Byjus, Google, Microsoft and IBM

MHRD, NCERT

State Governments