AI Tutoring and Human Mentorship can together pave the way for excellent education in the future
What makes AI a significant invention is not how revolutionary it is as a discovery, but the silent assistance that it provides in hindsight to different sectors of society. Progress sped up tenfold thanks to a self-thinking, self-learning assistant that is never exhausted and almost never errs. At times, it exceeds human potential and is capable of creating a humanless industry that provides and progresses at an exponential rate.
The academic field is also no stranger to this influence. Our cognitive abilities are ready to take a back seat thanks to search engines and software that don’t need us to do the manual analysis and calculations anymore.
Table of Content
1. Current state of the academic industry
2. Education as a business
3. How is AI improving teaching quality?
4. Student’s POV
5. Human vs. AI tutors
Conclusion
1. Current state of the academic industry
Nowadays, students have access to all the information possible; in fact, after acquiring the required comprehensive skills, anybody is capable of teaching themselves. What about the teachers then? Is there anything left to teach?
The sweetness of AI interference has quickly transformed into a demanding influence with time. What started with soft grading assistance rapidly exceeded human capabilities with the help of natural language processing, machine learning, and neural networks. AI’s adaptive tutoring model is the latest advancement in this situation.
What seems to be the case here is that students are upgrading a lot faster than a few years ago. Skipping classes is the norm. Protégés benefit the most through the adaptive learning model. At times like this, academics need to be nudged in the right direction and have limited access to data so as to ensure things are approached and learned with the right intention.
2. Education as a business
While AI seems to be a befitting addition to the academic industry, it is still a part of the service sector. Simply put, businesses gain from having educated employees, which is why education has grown to be such a significant industry.
Schools throughout the nation use products made by Apple, Microsoft, and Google. It is predicted that the education industry will be valued at ~$100 billion by 2020 (HULT International Business School).
Institutions can easily benefit from 100% incorporation of AI; however, the student’s POV matters a lot more in this case. When adding a new service, the success of the integration is to be measured, which, of course, depends on how well the client responds to the service. However, with AI in education, that is one needle in the haystack that’ll pester the AI-fication of the academic industry till eternity.
3. How is AI improving teaching quality?
According to the World Economic Forum, globally, AI in the education market is expected to grow from $5.18 billion in 2024 to $112.3 billion by 2034. AI has been very adaptive when it comes to teaching. Tutoring for analytical subjects like math and science is a cakewalk thanks to the assistance of AI. Not just that, subjective courses can be scored too, thanks to NLPs and adaptive learning. Teachers have been scoring and grading student assignments through AI.
Look at it like this: you’ve got a grade A student as your assistant; they learn from you, adapt, and pass on your legacy to the rest. Isn’t that sweet? A two-year-old survey from the WEF spoke of rising burnout due to stress at work in teachers from Missouri and Oklahoma. Incorporation of AI can tackle this issue effortlessly. Not to mention, a plethora of other problems may cease to exist with this collaboration, resulting in increased teaching quality and better job satisfaction for the teachers.
4. Student’s POV
Having said that, the competition among students is going to rise thanks to adaptive AI learning. And this competition at times might be tough to judge, but the gap between the smartest and the struggling kids will diminish consistently with each passing year.
On the other hand, protégés will never suffer again from waiting to be catered to at their own pace. Teachers will keep up with the protégés at an alarming pace. The future looks bright, competitive, and challenging with AI-integrated education.
5. Human vs. AI tutors
If we were to debate about ‘Who’s better at teaching, AI or Humans?’, there’d be no winner. The ultimate truth is that both together are indispensable. The collaboration of AI and academics could go down as the best thing to happen to society in years. A clear picture of the limitations and capabilities of both helps us come to terms with it.
| Feature/Aspect | Human Teachers | AI Tutors |
| Personal Connection | Build emotional bonds, inspire, mentor | Lacks genuine empathy, cannot form emotional bonds |
| Learning Adaptability | Adapt methods based on emotional and social cues | Customize lessons to individual learning pace |
| Availability | Limited to scheduled hours | Available 24/7 for on-demand learning support |
| Feedback | Provide personalized, nuanced feedback | Instant feedback with error correction |
| Scalability | Limited by class sizes and time | Can teach thousands or millions simultaneously |
| Support Provided | Emotional encouragement and guidance | Focus on academic content and practice |
| Creativity & Social Skills | Foster creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking | Limited to structured content delivery |
| Overdependence Risk | Low | Risk of students becoming overly reliant on AI |
| Bias and Consistency | Some inconsistencies and unconscious biases | Potential biases if the training data is flawed |
| Access Limitations | Requires physical presence | Requires device and internet access |
Conclusion
A hybrid model of AI and human teachers needs to be introduced to extract the maximum potential of both entities with minimal errors. The introduction of an adaptive curriculum designed by AI and human teachers together can make personalized learning possible. Every student will get educated based on their strengths and at their pace. Learning both as a service and as a business will be dynamic in every sense, thanks to the collaborative efforts of human teachers and AI.
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