Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing education. With the power of AI, educators and students alike are not only seeing improved academic outcomes and more efficient processes but overall more enriching learning experiences.
While it may have once been inconceivable to provide each student with materials, assessments, and guidance that are tailored to their individual needs – especially in public school settings where resources can be scarce – AI now makes this possible.
This level of personalization helps keep students motivated on their learning journey, matching their level academically and captivating them through their interests and contexts. Research shows that AI-driven personalization in learning leads to improved academic achievement, engagement, and satisfaction.
Here are five ways that AI empowers students and teachers through a more personalized learning experience.
Adaptive Learning Platforms
Every educational institution has students with varying academic abilities. While teachers would traditionally divide up students manually according to their level and periodically provide feedback through grading, AI can now empower this process to a much more granular level.
Adaptive learning platforms offer customized learning experiences for students based on their strengths and areas for improvement. These solutions can dynamically adapt to the student’s level, provide feedback in real-time, and suggest exercises that match their proficiency. AI can also create personalized learning plans that challenge students without overwhelming them, helping to maintain engagement and motivation.
And the research backs this up – Students in this study appreciated real-time feedback and tailored content provided by AI, which “helped them understand and retain concepts better”. Meanwhile, another study found that students’ test scores increased by 62% after using an AI-powered adaptive learning platform that provides personalized feedback and instruction to students.
At intive, we are leveraging AI to create more personalized and adaptive educational experiences. We recently partnered with an educational publisher to use AI to create assessments that adapt to the skill levels of the reader, to greatly increase engagement and learning efficacy.
Detection of Learning Challenges
With so much on their plate, teachers often struggle to keep up with each student’s progress and intervene proactively to ensure they fulfill their academic potential. AI is valuable here too – helping educators detect when certain students are experiencing academic difficulties. By evaluating students’ scores, attendance, and behavioral data, AI systems highlight the students falling behind and suggest action steps to help them catch up.
Predictive analytics allows educators to foresee students’ performance and catch those at risk of failing early enough to intervene. For example, over 3,000 students in this study were able to avoid failing thanks to the AI’s prediction of their final grades within the first two weeks of the semester. This technology empowers not only teachers but students too, as these alerts enable students to take steps proactively before it’s too late to impact their final grade.
Personal AI Tutors
Imagine if every student, no matter their economic background, had access to a personal tutor that supported them through their learning journey. Generative or Agentic AI-powered assistants can now do this, providing personalized guidance and engaging in human-like conversation.
Students can ask the AI tutor for help explaining problems or tasks they’re struggling with, use it as a research assistant for projects, or get it to provide feedback on work they have already completed. These tools can be programmed to “speak” in a motivational tone to students, encouraging them and offering positive feedback. In fact, 88% of students in this study strongly agree that AI-powered tutors are effective for learning.
intive’s GenAI solution, which can be tailored for educational contexts, delivers personalized feedback and constructive insights in natural language to users.
Enhanced Accessibility
Accessibility in EdTech products is crucial, and AI can play a key role in tailoring educational experiences to students with diverse needs. AI-powered solutions can generate materials and exercises that ensure inclusivity for all students through features like text-to-speech, speech or image recognition, and real-time captioning.
Educators can also leverage AI to translate and simplify texts for non-native speakers and use it to pace instruction in real time to cater to the learner’s capacity to absorb the content.
intive is dedicated to building accessible EdTech solutions. For example, when generating reading comprehension tests, intive’s AI algorithm factors in students who may have learning difficulties associated with short-term memory and ensures that questions are memorable and easy to understand.
Customized Content Recommendations
Just like streaming platforms deliver movie recommendations based on your watching history and behaviors, AI-powered e-learning solutions can leverage data on student learning preferences and progress to offer tailored educational content suggestions.
By studying the material they’re interested in, students find the learning experience more relatable and engage with content more deeply. AI can also provide custom content in multiple languages and from different cultures, making it more relevant for a culturally diverse student body.
At intive, our AI and data analytics team has created custom recommendation engines for media platforms, allowing them to increase engagement through accurate content suggestions and tailored ads. This technology can be easily transferred to e-learning tools and leveraged to offer students content that resonates with them and empowers their learning journey.
The potential of AI in education is only just beginning. The key is leveraging AI tools to augment the learning process, not drive it completely. With a thought-out strategy, EdTechs can implement AI to help educators widen access, enhance student engagement, and improve academic outcomes.
Interested in how intive can help you transform educational experiences with AI? Get in touch today.
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