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Introduction
In 2019, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education was held in
Beijing (Xu, 2019). The artificial intelligence field experts from all around the world
gathered at the event to have a discussion and brainstorming session regarding the topic. It is
a fact that Artificial Intelligence has now been implemented in various industries, stimulating
transformation in social development and economic growth, leading to changes in mankind’s
productivity, lifestyle and even learning styles. Recently, UNESCO officially released the
"Beijing Consensus - Artificial Intelligence and Education", suggesting that all countries
should formulate corresponding policies and explore the effective strategies and practices the
implementation of artificial intelligence to promote educational innovation (Huang, 2019).
Education has high potential to advocate the development of human society with the in-depth
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integration of artificial intelligence. The United States, Singapore, India are identified as the
leading countries who have successively launched new education reform strategies for the
future and relevant policies and regulations are constantly formulated to design a blueprint
for the smart education development in their countries (Parker, 2018).
The United States National Strategic Plan for Research and Development of Artificial
Intelligence and the National Strategic Plan for Machine Intelligence, released in 2016 and
2018 respectively, expressly states that it will provide policy and financial support needed for
the technology of artificial intelligence in education (Seng & Choo, 2008). The fourth
Masterplan for ICT in Education which was launched in Singapore proposes to establish the
smart learning environment in order to support a personalized and independent learning for
students, with the objective to cultivate the responsible digital learners for the future
(Horowitz, Allen, Kania, & Scharre, 2018). In 2018, India introduced the National Strategy
for Artificial Intelligence, which listed education as one of the five essential areas for the
implementation of artificial intelligence technology. In China, the government pays high
attention to the integration and development of artificial intelligence and education, and
vigorously promotes information informed education (Yan, 2019).
Digital teaching resources are widely accessible in all levels of education, the continuous
enhancement of smart learning and teaching and management approaches have made
significant progress in education modernization (Lei, 2018). At present, many countries in the
world are very concerned about the application of artificial intelligence in education,
particularly, how to make it beneficial to all communities (Zhu & Yang, 2012). The
application of artificial intelligence at the educational level will continue to expand. In
keeping with the passage of time, the development trend of artificial intelligence in education
is inevitable and more artificial intelligence technologies will be applied in education in the
future (Pan, 2018).
Artificial intelligence technology has long history which is actively and constantly changing
and growing. Artificial intelligence is an interdisciplinary subject involving informatics,
logic, cognition, thinking, systems science and biology (Hon, 2019). It has been in knowledge
processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, natural language processing, game theory,
automatic, automated programming, expert systems, knowledge bases, intelligent robots, and
other fields have achieved practical results (Jackson, 2019).
Artificial intelligence has undergone a long process of development and has a history of more
than 70 years. The development process of artificial intelligence can be divided into several
stages, in 1943an artificial neuron model was proposed, opening the era of artificial neural
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network research (Kandpal & Mehta. 2019). In 1956, the Dartmouth Conference was held,
and the concept of artificial intelligence was proposed, which marked the birth of artificial
intelligence (Luo, Meng & Cai, 2018). During this period, the trend of artificial intelligence
research among international academicians increased and knowledge exchange was frequent.
In the 1960s, as the main genre of Connectionism and Symbolism entered a depression, due
to insufficient hardware capabilities, algorithmic defects, etc., artificial intelligence
technology fell into a downturn (Boden, 2018). In the 1970s, the Back-propagation algorithm
began to be studied, computer performance and computing power gradually improved and in
general, the research and application of the expert system was moving forward with difficulty
and artificial intelligence gradually began to make breakthroughs (Chakravarthy, 2019). In
the 1980s, Back-propagation neural networks were widely recognized and algorithms based
on artificial neural networks were advancing by leaps and bounds (Hinton & Salakhutdinov,
2006).
The rapid improvement of computer hardware capabilities, coupled with the development of
the Internet, reduces the computational cost of artificial intelligence which subsequently
enters a stage of steady development. In 2006, Deep Learning was proposed, and artificial
intelligence once again achieved breakthrough development (Deng & Yu, 2014). In the first
decade of the 21st century, the development of Mobile Internet brought more application
scenarios to artificial intelligence. In 2012, Deep Learning algorithms achieved
breakthroughs in the field of voice and visual recognition (Zhou, Zhao, Wang & Liu, 2018).
In 2016, AlphaGo defeated the World Go champion and sparked thinking about how artificial
intelligence could change human society (Brunner, 2019).
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augmented reality / virtual reality, (viii) accurate reading, (ix) intelligent campus and (x)
distance learning.
The Automatic Grading System: The automatic grading system is an artificial intelligence-
based professional computer program that simulates the behavior of a teacher to assign
grades to student tasks in an educational setting. It assesses student knowledge, the program
analyzes their answers, provides feedback and develops personalized training programs.
Many artificial intelligence education apps are using this program. Through the test of
learning, the system automatically provides the learner evaluation score. This method can
help teachers to better understand the learning situation of their students, and students, on the
other hand, are made more aware of their level of learning achievement and knowledge
mastery. One of the examples of the automatic grading system used in education app is
Wolfie, an Israeli music education application (Shang, 2019). This app focuses more on
classroom teaching, providing teaching and evaluation tools for teachers and students, and
using modern advanced technology to change all aspects of music education, from teaching
to learning to practice. The automatic grading system in Wolfie helps music educators guide
students to correct the mistakes in the exercises, and provide teachers and students with a
completely different way of music education and learning interaction.
Interval Reminder: When someone is about to forget his/her knowledge, revising the
knowledge is an effective technical solution that reinforces understanding and memory
through timed repetitive reminders. The Polish inventor Peter Wozniak proposed an
educational app based on the effects of the interval (Nazemi, Breyer, Burkhardt, Stab &
Kohlhammer, 2014). This app tracks what people have learned and when. Using artificial
intelligence, the app can determine when someone is most likely to forget something and
suggest for him/her to modify it. Just a few reminder revisions will ensure that the
information is now stored in a human’s brain for years.
Teacher feedback is the student assessment of the teacher, a feedback method that has existed
in education for some time. Despite the shift from paper to online surveys, little to no
progress has been made in the feedback area (Holstein, McLaren & Aleven, 2019). Since
student evaluation of teaching is often the most valuable source of information, it obviously
needs to be elevated. Modern technologies, such as artificial intelligence-driven conversation
robots, machine learning and natural language processing, provide exciting opportunities to
improve the quality of feedback (Peters, 2019). Chat robot, for example, can collect opinions
through a conversational interface like a real interviewer and only needs a small amount of
work by others. The conversation can be adjusted based on student answers and personality.
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artificial intelligence to help children learn (Goel, & Polepeddi, 2016). At Georgia Institute of
Technology, students were fascinated by a teacher assistant named Jill Watson, who quickly
and accurately answered the student requests. However, the students did not know that Ms.
Watson’s true identity was actually a computer with an IBM-artificial intelligence system.
There is also a company in London known as "Whizz Education" (Whizz Education, 2014),
that is popular with its flagship product, "Maths Whizz," a software for online tutoring. The
company has designed after-school study course that is consistent with the school schedule.
Students can ask questions at any time during the learning process. The virtual teacher will
answer the questions step by step for students and adjust the answer according to the
feedback of the students until the student masters the knowledge learned. At the same time,
the system also provides real-time reporting for parents, so that they can keep track of their
child’s learning progress and understand better whether they can keep up with the progress of
the school or will have difficulties during the learning process and etcetera. The system
allows parents to encourage and even reward their children through online interaction, in
which parental supervision of children is also taken into account in the program.
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platform that integrate curriculum design, online learning, real-time feedback, adaptive
learning, big data analysis, online collaborative learning, and intelligent coaching. Teachers
can use the tools and content library on the online platform to design courses, and each part
of the teaching process can add elements of interaction with students, so that students can
master the knowledge through completing some "tasks" in the course.
Through these interactions, the system can collect student learning data at any time, track the
progress of students, and discover the bottlenecks and difficulties of student learning, thus
giving real-time feedback and reinforcement. For younger children, some companies have
added gamification to adaptive learning systems to make boring learning becomes more fun.
The American company "DreamBox Learning" cuts in from the gamification of the
elementary school mathematics curriculum and designs a platform for learning mathematics
in games (Jani, Muszali, Nathan & Abdullah, 2018). This platform is based on the
performance of students in the game and the platform of interaction and practice, gradually to
promoting student mathematics learning. It adjusts the content and exercises according to the
progress of the students, so that students can learn all the mathematics courses required by
their grades without realizing it.
Augmented Reality (AR) / Virtual Reality (VR): Using augmented reality (AR) / virtual
reality (VR) in education, the imagination space is immeasurable, and the benefits are
obvious (Martin, Bohuslava & Igor, 2018). Classroom is no longer limited to small
classrooms, whiteboards, and power points, but the entire universe. Many companies,
including Internet giants Google and Facebook, have devoted themselves to researching how
to apply AR/VR in education. In order to make the VR scene as realistic as possible, the
company “Alchemy VR” chose to cooperate with a number of institutions such as Samsung,
Google, Sony, BBC, the National Museum of Nature, and the Sydney Museum of Australia
to produce VR educational content (Huttar & BrintzenhofeSzoc, 2019). The company's
"Great Barrier Reef Tour" is a product of collaboration with the BBC documentary team,
giving students from all over the world the opportunity to sneak into the blue waters of
Australia to learn the ecological environment of coral reefs.
Accurate Reading: More than 75% of the reading learning intelligent teaching platform,
Newsela is used by K-12 schools in the United States, which provides scholars with real-time
assessment, synchronous vocabulary learning, integration variety of resources and learners
(Opfer, Kaufman & Thompson, 2016). The reading content is divided into three broad
categories: libraries, news, and text collections. Each category contains a large number of rich
themes. In the library classification, it includes art and culture, science and mathematics,
religion and philosophy, politics and economy, etcetera. The same content will be presented
in different forms according to different readers, and the vocabulary will be adjusted
according to the learner's reading level. These functions are all based on artificial intelligence
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technology. Newsela has created a first-class education for primary education (Ding, 2017).
The reading materials are combined with the content of the school curriculum, and provide
five reading levels. The content of the entire catalogue is divided into 2~6 grades. Each
article will have five Power Words, which is the new vocabulary that students will learn.
After that, the test exercise is administered to enhance the learning effect (Leonardo, 2018).
Teachers can track the progress of the students through real-time data collection, and adjust
their teaching progress, methods, content, etc. in time.
Intelligent Campus: With the help of leading artificial intelligence technology, intelligent
campus aimed to improve teaching quality as well as campus management and services, to
provide a more systematic and secure environment for students (Yan, 2018). At
Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, the development of smart campus is in full swing.
As a teacher's aide, the intelligence behind it comes from IBM's Watson supercomputer
system. Once the project is completed, the Smart Campus will be able to answer all questions
related to the student's campus life such as how to find the next lecture hall, how to apply for
the next semester course, how to get homework, where to find a parking lot or how to contact
a professor are all that artificial intelligence campus robots will be able to solve.
Distance Learning: In 2014, Kose published the book title “Application of Artificial
Intelligence in Distance Education”, and believed that the application of artificial intelligence
in distance education aims to study the use of computers to make up the gap between students
and educators (Kose, 2014). In distance education, artificial intelligence technology should be
used to support distance education, or different intelligent systems can be used to improve
distance education (Kose, 2014).
In order to better promote the application of artificial intelligence in education, there are three
important aspects must be considered: at the technical level; model level and the practical
level.
At the technical level: Strengthen the supervision of information security and ethics
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improperly, it will break the law or cause ethical problems, thus damaging the interests of all
parties.
At the model level: Improve the relevant models of artificial intelligence education
applications
At present, the research on the model of artificial intelligence application is still in its
infancy, and its specific research ideas and contents need to be continuously improved, and
combined with relevant theories to improve the existing model. The construction of the
artificial intelligence education application model should pay more attention to the
interdisciplinary research of its related education science and professional science.
Researchers should make suggestions for the application of artificial intelligence education
on the basis of following the law of educational development. The application of artificial
intelligence education can only ensure that it will not be lost in the jungle of technology if it
conforms to the laws of education development.
At the practical level: Expand the practice and application scope of artificial intelligence
education.
Conclusion
In summary, it is found that artificial intelligence technology has been used in many different
aspects in education, from promoting education innovation, assisting the teaching and
learning processes, and managing smart campus life to providing useful information to the
stakeholders. In the context of 21st century, the use of artificial intelligence technology in
education is undeniable. Artificial intelligence technology is very much needed in the future
to ensure effective teaching and learning process among teachers and students and will be
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