The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Indian Education Sector

In the present era, artificial intelligence is a buzz word and it has an impact on various sectors like healthcare, e-commerce, education, etc. Most of the mobile users use AI-based voice assistants like Siri or Google assistant. A study about AI reveals that 71% of participants agree that AI allows people to solve difficult issues and to improve life. People use AI-inspired technologies more than they know they are using. It does seem that the future of Artificial Intelligence will very bright. For the overall development of a nation depends mostly upon its education system. Day by day, the role of it in every sector is increasing including education sector. United Nations' goal is to provide quality education to every person and India will play a major role in this goal achievement. India is a developing country and has younger population in comparison to any country. In terms of population, India is the 2nd largest country and the strength of its students is more than the population of the USA. In addition, it is projected that the population of young people in India will be highest in the world by 2030. In India, there is a shortage of teachers. To compensate for this shortage, AI can play a key role in the education sector in India. AI can help teachers, students, and non-teaching staff in different ways and save time and resources. In the present article, it is discussed about the various roles of AI in the Indian education sector such as it can help teachers in preparing lesson plans according to the class and students, help in reducing the work related to non-teaching activities, provide actionable feedback, improving in teaching techniques, etc. AI can also help in various administrative work of an educational institute for example making online exams more secure, computerized grading etc. AI also helps students as supporting tutor, understanding lectures by more practical experience by using VR etc. India also launches many programs to help teachers and students such as “MOOC (massive open-online courses)” and “SWAYAM (Study webs of active learning for young aspiring minds)” and AI can support for success of these types of programs.