ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION – WHERE ARE WE NOW?

"There has been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence (AI) in education recently. However, the utilization of AI in an educational context does not always seem to match with application in a general context. While we are seeing great advances in the development of AI in self-driving cars, facial recognition or computers excelling in chess, the development of intelligent teaching assistants may seem to be lacking. In this article, we take a look at the current state of utilization of AI in an educational context. For this, we reviewed the current literature about artificial intelligence specifically in education. Ten high quality educational journals, with five having special focus on technology, were selected for the review. Based on the review, it seems that artificial intelligence is still mostly covered from a technical point of view, as there were only a handful of articles found in purely educational journals. The main focus seems to be on case studies and in including AI based courses in curriculum, followed by meta studies and critical reviews. Surprisingly, there were only a couple of articles about the ethical concerns of using AI in education, while in general the ethics of AI seems to be quite a popular topic. The total number of articles written about AI in education seems to be nevertheless increasing each year, which seems to be in line with the general interest of AI."