Instructing with AI - how to become the trainer of the future!

In our previous blog we already announced it: Artificial Intelligence is “here to stay”. Because we at Pluvo are forward-thinking and prefer to prepare for the future rather than focus on the past, we are diving into this fascinating development in this four-part blog series.

We believe that AI will be a tremendous help to teachers and trainers. It will soon make “manual” tasks like grading and other administrative chores redundant, leaving more time to truly focus on what matters: teaching things to students or trainees. This leaves more time and energy for personal connection between teachers and students: a real win-win!

We have listed a few tasks where AI can ideally support teachers and trainers in the future.

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Intelligent tutoring systems

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) provide students with personalized feedback to help them learn. These tools use natural language processing and machine learning to analyze student performance and subsequently adapt instruction accordingly.

ITS can guide students step-by-step through questions they are struggling with. They can also provide real-time feedback and encourage students to participate actively throughout the course. As students master a concept, the AI tools adjust the course content to keep providing a challenge and to keep the learning process fun and interesting.

Automated grading

Grading and assessing submitted assignments, projects, and tests is a task that often takes up a lot of valuable time, which could be used much more productively and effectively by teachers and trainers.

Thanks to AI, grading students and trainees can now be automated in a reliable way. AI tools can assess various types of assessments, such as multiple-choice questions or answers to open-ended questions.

Well-trained AI tools can accurately identify errors and even provide feedback or suggestions to improve answers. This gives teachers and trainers more time to focus on providing personal feedback and coaching based on these insights.

Predictive analytics

Predictive analytics are used to see which students might need some help or are even considering dropping out. This is useful because it allows us to create special learning paths for those students, so we can intervene in time and they can improve their performance and hopefully regain their motivation. These insights also tell us how we can improve the course or training in general, where the pitfalls are, where students are likely to give up, and so on.

This way, the training can be proactively adapted to the learning needs of the students, preventing dropouts and disappointing learning results in the future.

Adaptive learning

Based on each student's competency level, AI tools can adjust the level of challenge in the course content until the student has built up sufficient expertise. For example, if a student is learning a new skill, each subsequent module becomes slightly more challenging.

Another way to personalize learning is by offering students optimized learning paths that are not predetermined. Based on the student's interaction and performance, new learning paths are dynamically generated by AI, which optimizes the learning experience.

Chatbots

Chatbots use smart technology, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, to “talk” to users. Some chatbots answer simple questions with pre-set responses, while other chatbots can conduct more complex conversations and even learn from users.

Duolingo is a good example of this. Through the use of advanced technology, users can practice the language they are learning in real-time by having “real-time” conversations with the Duolingo chatbot, adapted to their current language level, and thus continuously improve their language skills.

Developing lessons with Education Copilot

Another time-consuming task is developing lessons. The new AI tool “Education Copilot” takes a large part of this task off the hands of teachers and trainers.

With this AI tool, you can create lessons, assignments, handouts, reports, and project outlines in seconds. It’s definitely worth it!

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