IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

OVER NEW EDGE OF EDUCATION SYSTEM

An Analysis Report
FOR THE PURPOSE
OF
NATIONAL SEMINAR ON INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM AND EMPLOYMENT
Raj school of Management & Sciences

SUBMITTED BY: RAVI SHEKHAR

ENROLL NO# 322999
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (IVth-sem)
FACULTY OF COMMERCE-BHU
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IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OVER NEW EDGE OF
EDUCATION SYSTEM

ABSTRACT
This report describes the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on education. It
investigates the educational implications of emerging technologies on the way students learn and how
institutions teach and evolve. Nowadays technological advancements and speed of adopting new technologies
in education are very wide in order to predict the future of education in a world where artificial intelligence is
part of the fabric of education institutions. This paper analyses how AI can be used to improve learning outcomes
then addresses the challenges and policy implications that should be part of the global and local conversations
regarding possible outcomes of introducing AI in education and nurturing students for an AI-powered context.
And in last, this paper regime the future vectors for AI in education.

INTRODUCTION
The future of education is essentially linked with the advancement of new technologies and computing capacities
of the new intelligent machines. In this field, growth in artificial intelligence open to new possibilities and
challenges for teaching and learning in education, with the potential to fundamentally change governance and
the internal design of institutions of education.
Artificial Intelligence is a prosperity domain capable of altering every aspect of our social interactions. In
education, AI has given new teaching and learning solutions that are now under testing in different contexts.
Artificial intelligence can be defined as the ability of computer systems to perform tasks and activities that
usually done by highly trained or skilled in a particular activity using human intelligence. In the world of
education, this technology makes reach changes in schools and classrooms, making educators jobs a lot easier.
With answers to the question of ‘what artificial intelligence is’ shaped by Philosophers influential definitions:
“The study [of artificial intelligence] is to proceed on the basis of the “conjecture that every aspect of learning
or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so exactly explained that a machine can be made to
simulate it.” (Russell and Norvig 2010).
Since 1956, we find various theoretical understandings of artificial intelligence that are influenced by many
domains and the advancements of AI solutions. For the purpose of our analysis over the impact of artificial
intelligence in education, we propose a basic definition informed by the literature review of some definitions in
this field. Therefore, we can define artificial intelligence (AI) as a computing system which is able to engage in
human-like processes it would be as learning, adapting, synthesizing, self-correction and use of data for complex
processing tasks. Artificial intelligence is in the progressing phase, which started an impact on the profound
nature of services within the education sector.

AI IMPACT ON SKILL AND COMPETENCE DEMAND

One of the measure role of modern educational system is to creates competences that allow people to participate
in the economic sphere of life. Education, is a key driver of economic productivity and competitiveness, as well
as educational policies are framed in the context of economic growth. So, it’s important to discuss in the context
of educational policies how AI will transform work and employment. For economists, a measure query has
whether automation and computerization increase unemployment. As machines increase labour productivity,
fewer human workers are needed to maintain production. Unless the demand for products grows enough,
unemployment grows. In other words, If machines replace some jobs, people may move to other jobs. There are
many influential studies that have verified this pattern. Using historical data, they typically conclude that more
technology and labor productivity growth have not increased aggregate unemployment. On the other hand, it is

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well known that an important reason why automation has not generated persistent unemployment is population
growth that has continuously increased demand for industrial products and services.

Many other factors, such as education, globalization, increased consumption of non-renewable natural resources,
as well as developments in science and healthcare have been involved in the 20th century economic growth, and
it is, therefore, difficult to make predictions about the future using historical patterns. Although some influential
studies claim that automation has not generated unemployment, it may therefore be useful to recall also the
history of industrialization and its social consequences. Industrialization led to social upheavals and revolutions
from Prussia to Mexico, Russia, and countries around the world, often with brutal outcomes. Millions of lives
were lost. People flocked into cities, and at the turn of the 20th century authors such as Jack London still
described in detail the dismal conditions of wage-slaves in the Oakland docks. As the economic system now
operates on a global scale, the impact of AI cannot easily be studied on a national scale, where useful
econometric data typically is available. Although country-level data can be aggregated, for example, for cross-
national comparisons, the global and networked knowledge economy is not just a collection of economically
integrated national economies.
In considering the social, economic and human impact of AI and its relation to educational policies, a broad
view on social change is necessary.

IMPACT ON LEARNING, TEACHING, AND EDUCATION

Since the beginning of the 1980s, and until recently, educational applications of AI have mainly focused on the
knowledge-based approach. The most prominent line of research has been concerned with intelligent tutoring
systems, or ITS These systems use a knowledge-based architecture. A typical ITS architecture has a domain
model that describes the area to be learned and a student model that describes the current state of student's
knowledge and learning. An expert system or pedagogical model manages the introduction of learning materials
to the student through an adaptive and interactive user interface. These systems have traditionally used the
knowledge-based approach, now commonly known as "gofai" (good-old-fashioned-AI).
They have been successful mainly in relatively limited and unambiguous domains, such as mathematics and
physics. As student behaviour and learning can also be monitored in ITS environments in great detail, intelligent
tutoring environments have also been an important source of data for research on learning.

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The difficulty in developing ITS for broad learning domains has also switched the focus to the narrower problem
of using AI and machine learning to generate teacher interfaces for student and learning monitoring and learning
diagnostics. This is commonly known as learning analytics and educational data mining (EDM).

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CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS
In special needs education, AI-based
approaches have shown potential, for
example, in the early detection of
dyslexia. A well-published example is
the Swedish company “Lexplore” that
has developed a system that quickly
scans for students at risk and detects
dyslexia by tracking reader eye
movements. The system uses data-
based pattern recognition, and the
company is now expanding to the US
and UK, offering school and school-
district wide scanning.

AI-based systems have also been

successfully developed for the diagnosis
of autism spectrum disorder and
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD). In particular, child-robot
interaction seems to enable new forms
of diagnostics and special needs
educational applications. As student
testing plays an important role in many
educational systems, many projects are
trying to explore the use of AI for
automatic test generation and
assessment. Much of this work is aimed
at automating summative assessment,
with a promise of reducing teacher
workloads.

A possible unintended consequence of this work is that high-stakes testing will be increasingly displaced by
frequent low-stakes formative assessment, as the effort and cost required for assessment decreases. Current AI
systems are very good in combining evidence from complex and varied sources of data and using them for real
time pattern recognition. For example, student homework can relatively easily be checked and diagnosed by an
AI system that has data on both individual student history and peer responses. Accumulated formative
assessments could, therefore, to a large extent make high-stakes testing redundant. AI is also beginning to be
used to diagnose student attention, emotion, and conversation dynamics in computer-supported learning
environments, for example for course development and management, in an attempt to generate optimal groups
for collaborative learning tasks, and to recognize patterns that predict student drop-out. To do this effectively,
large datasets are needed for training the systems. As was pointed out above, this is a major technical bottleneck.
Student behavior also has to be actively monitored to provide feedback for learning. This creates technical needs
to unobtrusively monitor students, for example, using video processing and remote eye tracking, with associated
ethical and regulatory challenges. Ethically less problematic are systems that use less granular data to provide
recommendations. For example, at UC Berkeley students can now get course recommendations using a system
that relies on neural AI technologies originally developed for natural language processing and machine
translation.

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DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

Artificial intelligence can significantly impact the future of the Indian education sector. There are various
technology providers who introduced AI products for the enhancement of new-age learning. Gradually our
educational structure typically starts from the private sector, but now a day these new innovations are established
its importance into key school districts within states as well. With refer to an article from The Quint, Mr.Vikas
Singh MD at Pearson India shines more light on the current dynamics of AI in Indian education“ Though it is
too soon to start seeing robotics technology in teaching classrooms, AI is already becoming an effective tool for
teaching aid because of its ability to adapt and offer customized curricular. AI-enabled tools help accumulate
and examine an individual’s current level of understanding, identify gaps and offer tailored suggestions, just
like a teacher would.”
As per the research firm Tracxn statistical report over 300 Indian startups use AI in their core product offering.
About 11% of them are based in the educational core. This is brighter and strong sign of industries outside of
technology and ecommerce using AI in their product offering.
While the ultimate goal is fully customizable, various apps and programs are helping us along the way. Tutoring
apps are customizing their lesson structures on regular basis depends upon the performance of a unique user
profile. Enhanced and large data crunching is making testing more interactive phenomenon in India. A perfact
and successful example in the Indian education space is the app Toppr. The app is utilizing best practices in AI
to ensure the enhance the engagement in the lesson plan that the student is interacting with. As a result, the app
has producing Indian toppers that have religiously relied on its AI-based model.
As per Zishaan Hayath Co-Founder & CEO, Toppr, “At Toppr, we are using both machine learning and AI to
map out each student’s strengths and weaknesses. Self and individual learning speeds and records are taken into
consideration. These tests process are designed to boost child’s confidence in areas they excel in and challenge
them in areas they don’t. This holistic approach always helps children to remain motivated,”.

The results are stunning and very effective with Toppr, were as an average qualification rate for JEE was about
20%, but as per research Toppr students had a 36% qualification rate. This is a significant and effective
enhancement in the educational sector, as a successful strategy now schools are trying to learn how they can
incorporate with such innovations.

Edu Gorilla is another company that uses AI to analyses Big Data in education sector in India. It analyses data
from 600,000 school’s and 70,000 plus coaching centre’s for providing top quality results of Indian students.
This enables them to be a one-stop shop at one place for all things education-based in India. Students can rely
on one platform to have their questions answered with a suitable time.

As per Rohit Manglik, CEO of Edu Gorilla , “Even remote area students can learn and improve their results. We
are implementing AI to find the latest educational trends across the world wide and compile an cross check it
subject-wise for students of all categories or ages on our ‘trends’ page”.

While the movement is slow, the pacing is strong in distributed markets. There are various companies working
directly with educational institutes to enhance their core offering. Reliance backed startup Embibe is also
creating better outcomes for students in the country. Embibe had earlier acquired 100Marks which is an
engineering and medical entrance exam training platform. With this, the education sector is using AI to enhance
outcomes for students in India. Corporates are participating as investors and innovators.
The platform has impacted the lives of 15 million students across the country. They’ve also worked with more
than 60 educational institutes in enhancing the curriculum and learning systems via a PAAS model. Essentially,
the platform employs a technique called relative quartile jump, which assesses the knowledge of the student on
a frequent basis.
“With robust AI stacks focused on content intelligence and automation, behavioural recommendations and
student intelligence, our products have redefined the way edtech can impact the lives of students and teachers.
We are supercharging our platform with the ability to deliver both content and outcomes for every learning goal

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in every student’s journey, to be the leader in personalizing education for India and the world, says” Aditi
Avasthi, founder and CEO at Embibe.

Currently, the need of the hour is AI in the classroom. We haven’t yet evolved to a stage where we can take
leaps in the AI space. We’re still waiting for our US counterparts to scale classroom-based AI solutions. While
innovations are ongoing, no single application has come out on top. AI can be used to find gaps in the learnings
of the student and provide real-time solutions. The technology can also identify areas where teachers are
outnumbered by students and create optimized learning programs that impact the largest number of students.

HOW INDIA CAN BUILD AN AI-FRIENDLY EDUCATION SYSTEM BY 2030

Today, AI has turned into reality what used to be the stuff of sci-fi novels. For decades, scholars from diverse
disciplines have been predicting how AI and robotics are about to change the way we think, work and live.
Although, not everyone is on the same page when it comes to AI, there is no denying that it is already
demonstrating its positive potential in many industries. One area where AI is expected to play a huge role is
education. However, in India, the education sector is still seeking ways to respond to the advent of this
technology. Given that everything tech-based is so fast-paced, the need of the hour is to quickly prepare the
workforce of the future who can work with AI. It is also crucial to reskill the current force so that they can utilise
AI to improve both the learning and the teaching experience.

AI IN THE CLASSROOM

Though it is still too soon to start seeing robotics in classrooms, AI is already becoming an effective teaching
tool because of its ability to adapt and offer customised curricula. AI-enabled tools help assess an individual’s
current level of understanding, identify gaps and offer tailored suggestions, just like a teacher would. Beginners
can avail focused learning interventions; extract detailed progress reports; and basis that create a personalised
learning path.
Additionally, teachers can use online messaging boards for peer-to-peer learning, asking questions and
connecting with contemporaries. Machine learning and artificial learning algorithms can also be used to create
customised learning materials for students.
The existing course material can be analysed to create textbooks, chapter summaries, questions and reports,
cantered on understanding concepts rather than reading.
Teachers can upload assignments on the AI platform to sort, evaluate and grade multiple assignments and obtain
a detailed analysis of the areas where a student is weak.

INDIA AND AI

The government has set up a task force with a comprehensive plan to boost the AI sector and leverage the
capabilities associated with related- technologies, infrastructure, data usage and research. Apart from
governmental initiatives, certain institutes are progressively utilising AI to enhance their learning processes and
provide quality education to students at par with international colleges.
In the future, AI will greatly transform the education landscape by bringing about major disruptions in the
teaching and learning methodologies and improving the student-teacher experience.
For instance, in the next few years AI tutors could provide support beyond school and college, resulting in people
having a personalised lifelong learning companion. However, right now India is far from competing globally
due to lack of skills and poor infrastructure to support AI technology.
We already employ tools that provide one-on-one AI-enabled tutoring to each student and in every subject. Our
current technologies can provide intelligent support to learners working in a group by creating VR learning
environments.

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LEVERAGING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

Providing universal access to education while ensuring quality is not easy. However, coupling AI with data
science can fulfil the need to provide quality and affordable education. Massive data sets can be used to gain
insights, which the government bodies can use to visualise impact and act accordingly.
According to Niti Ayog, the Indian government needs to join hands with private players to leverage AI to address
the challenges related to affordability, access, shortage and skill gaps in various sectors, including education.
Although, the AI learning curve is steep, some work has already started in this area with IITs partnering with
MHRD to democratise education through the IIT-PAL initiative to create an AI-powered education sector
catering to students in smaller cities and towns.
The central government could offer fellowships, PHDs and research grants for the development of this ground-
breaking initiative. Additionally, a PPP model can help in setting up AI labs and attracting private investment.
Earlier this year, as a part of the Digital India program, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced an investment
of Rs 30.7 billion in setting up ‘Centers of Excellence’ that will focus on research, big data analysis, quantum
communication and IOT to improve digital literacy in the country.
Adhering to the concept of “Every time, Everywhere Education,” the government has also launched a website
with 244 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), covering aspects like AI, data analytics, etc.
For AI-platforms to perform better it needs more data. The more you use the platform, the more intelligent it
gets. Therefore, we need NGOs to add data to resolve problems at the bottom of the pyramid.
In the end, with the government’s assistance, by addressing the current gaps and through the right partnerships
with private players, AI can drive India towards its social and economic goals.

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