AI Tools for Education

 AI Tools for Education

Most of the conversation surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) tools is often directed at business, but there is enormous potential for AI to drastically improve our educational systems. It is one of the most effective tools teachers can have at their disposal, and it often frees them up from administrative burdens. These technologies will not replace teachers, but rather enable them to spend more time on students’ education.

AI is growing rapidly in the education sector, and it is becoming a multi-billion dollar global market. This rapid growth is due to its ability to transform many aspects of the teaching and learning processes. AI can create immersive virtual learning environments, produce “smart content,” ease language barriers, fill gaps between learning and teaching, create specialized plans for each student, and much more.

AI Tools :

Gradescope

The Gradescope AI tool enables students to assess each other while providing feedback, which are often time-consuming tasks without AI technology. Gradescope relies on a combination of machine learning (ML) and AI to make it easier to grade, which saves time and energy.

By outsourcing these tasks, teachers can focus on the more important ones. Gradescope can be used by the teacher to grade paper-based exams and online homework, as well as to prepare projects all in one place.

 

Here some of the main features of Gradescope:

• AI-assisted and manual question grouping
• Student-specific time extensions
• AI-assisted grading
• Increased efficiency and fairness

Nuance’s Dragon Speech Recognition

Located in Burlington, Massachusetts, Nuance provides speech recognition software that can be used by both students and faculty. The company’s Dragon Speech Recognition product can transcribe up to 160 words per minute, helping students who find it difficult to write or type. The tool also supports verbal commands to navigate documents, which is essential for students with accessibility requirements.

 

Dragon offers many more features, including an ability to dictate lesson plans, syllabi, worksheets, reading lists, and more at a pace three times faster than typing. It does this while achieving 99% accuracy.

 

Here are some of the main features of Nuance’s Dragon:

• Accessibility features supporting verbal commands
• Voice to assess student work
• Dictate class work with 99% accuracy

 

 Ivy Chatbot

Ivy is a set of chatbot AI tools that were specifically designed for universities and colleges. They assist in many parts of the university process, such as application forms, enrollment, tuition costs, deadlines, and more. Another unique feature of Ivy is its ability to plan recruitment campaigns through gathered data.

The AI tool can provide much-needed information to students, such as important details on loans, scholarships, grants, tuition payments, and more. It can be applied across departments thanks to its ability to develop specialized chatbots for each one.

 

Here are some of the main features of Ivy:

• Live chat and SMS nudging
• Integrations for Facebook, ERP, CRM, and SIS
• Become smarter over time through interaction with users

Altitude Learning

An online platform for professional learning, Altitude Learning is focused on learner-centered education. Its main goal is to help students teach themselves through a self-learning educational path.

The AI tool achieves this by enabling instructors to assign work in various ways, such as individually or by group. It also empowers teachers to create student-centered experiences that are based on modern research on how children learn best. The tool’s unique interface and assessment framework increase each learner’s ability to engage in self-directed learning.

 

Here are some of the main features of Altitude Learning:

 

• “Learner-centered” model that enables self-learning
• Student-centered experiences
• Single destination where students and families access curricula, communicate, track student progress, etc.