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The Evolution of AI-Driven Educational Systems during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: COVID-19 had a major impact on education, substantially stimulating the need for digital remote education. From paperback books to PDFs, from physical classes to e-conferencing, and from various traditional mechanisms of information transmission to systems that are driven by artificial intelligence and use adaptive learning approaches, all of these had to be adopted by both teachers and students. This paper analyzes the use of an adaptive learning system before and during the COVID-19 pandemic from a statistical point of view on a set of data gathered in Romania during a pilot project. The main data inputs are the number of students that enrolled for a certain course, the percentage of students that successfully completed it, and information about their age group, location and main area of interest. Our study finds that the use of artificial intelligence has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and, by analyzing the data obtained during the study, we managed to prove that artificial-intelligence-driven tools and systems have gained traction among all the parties involved in the educational process.
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,052
OpenAlex ID: W4200157466
FWCI: 13.75
Cites: 21
Cited by: 101
Related to: 10