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:

tinyurl.com/aied1985

AIED 2023 Blue Sky

By Shayan Doroudi