Four Interactions Between AI and Education
Sina Rismanchian & Shayan Doroudi
Broadening Our Perspective on What AI Can Offer Education

What is the nature of the relationship between AI and education?
Nearly five decades ago,
someone asked this same question.

Kahn's (1977) Three Roles of AI in Education
AI×Ed Framework
Researcher Interaction
Learner Interaction

Teacher/
Practitioner/
Parent Interaction
Educational Data Mining
Teacher Dashboards
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
End-User Axis
AI×Ed Framework
AI as an Applied Tool
AI as an Analogy to HI

Role of AI Axis
AI×Ed Framework
Researcher Interaction
Learner Interaction
AI as an Applied Tool
AI as an Analogy to HI

Educational Data Mining
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Computational Cognitive Models
Children Learning About Learning
Researcher Interaction
Learner Interaction
AI as an Applied Tool
AI as an Analogy to HI

Educational Data Mining
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Computational Cognitive Models
Children Learning About Learning
Where does your research fit in AI×Ed?https://tinyurl.com/plot-aied

IJAIED 2021
Researcher Interaction
Learner Interaction
AI as an Applied Tool
AI as an Analogy to HI


AIED 2021 Proceedings
Researcher Interaction
Learner Interaction
AI as an Applied Tool
AI as an Analogy to HI



The AIED community is predominantly focused on AI as an applied tool
However…
This was not always the case.
AIED 1993 Proceedings
Researcher Interaction
Learner Interaction
AI as an Applied Tool
AI as an Analogy to HI
Cascade: A Simulation of Human Learning and Its Applications
Kurt VanLehn
OLAE. Progress Toward a Multi-Activity, Bayesian Student Modeler
Joel Martin & Kurt VanLehn

AIED 1985 Proceedings
Researcher Interaction
Learner Interaction
AI as an Applied Tool
AI as an Analogy to HI





Envisioning the Future
Researcher Interaction
Learner Interaction
AI as an Applied Tool
AI as an Analogy to HI

AI
Literacy
Envisioning the Future
Researcher Interaction
Learner Interaction
AI as an Applied Tool
AI as an Analogy to HI

Computational
Cognitive Models
&
Agent-Based Models
Envisioning the Future
Researcher Interaction
Learner Interaction
AI as an Applied Tool
AI as an Analogy to HI

LLM-Based Tutoring Systems
Writing Assistants
LLM-Based Teachable Agents
LLMs as Cognitive Models
LLMs as Tools for Mining Text Data
Conclusion
We present AI×Ed as a framework for conceptualizing the different kinds of possible relationships between AI and education
We found that there is a lack of recent research in the bottom half of our quadrant
(AI as an analogy to human intelligence).
To establish a research agenda for the future of AIED we can simultaneously
look backwards (to earlier approaches to AIED) and
look forwards (to new kinds of AI and new challenges in education).
Any Questions?
doroudis@uci.edu srismanc@uci.edu
Want to know more about how the field of AIED has evolved?
Join my talk on
The Intertwined Histories of Artificial Intelligence in Education
in Journal Track II
Want ideas for how to expand to other parts of AI×Ed?
Check out the fascinating AIED 1985 Proceedings:
AIED 2023 Blue Sky
By Shayan Doroudi
AIED 2023 Blue Sky
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