Will AI Boost Higher Education?

On 23 June, the "Dialogue on the Future of University Higher Education" Forum hosted by Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) was held at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, where experts from different professional fields such as education, science and technology, industry, and the world, together with hundreds of parents of high school students and XJTLU alumni who care about education, gathered together to discuss the current situation and future of China's higher education in the era of artificial intelligence.

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, co-founded by Xi'an Jiaotong University and the University of Liverpool in 2006, is both a practitioner and an explorer. Xi Youmin, who resigned as a member of the Standing Committee and Vice President of Xi'an Jiaotong University and has been officially serving as the Executive President of XJTLU, mentioned in his keynote speech "Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Mission of XJTLU" that in the face of the impact of artificial intelligence and robots in the future world, human survival strategies need to be innovated, talent concepts need to be adjusted, educational concepts need to be changed, education processes and teaching methods need to be reshaped, different types of talent training models need to be changed urgently, and education should act immediately to cope with the disruptive transformation of AI society.

Xi Youmin has repeatedly emphasized XJTLU's vision and positioning on various occasions at home and abroad: "a research-oriented, unique, world-recognized Chinese university and an international university on Chinese soil." "In the face of the challenges and opportunities of the times, XJTLU is trying to give its own answers.

In the first decade of its establishment, XJTLU has formed a version of XJTLU's development, and has initially formed an international professional elite training model in education.

However, in the future society, especially in the face of the artificial intelligence and robotics revolution, what society needs is highly interdisciplinary talents and talents with cross-cultural leadership who can navigate the new industries of the future in the intelligent era. President Xi said that the school's ongoing educational exploration mainly covers four levels, including the innovation of the international professional elite training model; the creation of an international and integrated elite training model; Demonstration of new university concepts and campuses of the future; The university and society share symbiotic innovation, and the creation of a community.

The development of artificial intelligence has had a profound impact on humanity and its future, including its economic interests, social role and cultural life.

The impact of AI on education is reflected in the following aspects:

1. Artificial intelligence breaks the problem of imbalance of educational resources to a certain extent. As we all know, the imbalance of educational resources is a difficult problem in education around the world. The gap between developed and developing countries, between the east and west of China, between urban and rural areas, and the phenomenon of school districts in many cities all show that the imbalance in the distribution of educational resources is a serious challenge to the development of education.

However, the combination of artificial intelligence technology and big data analysis network platform can greatly increase the number of students who benefit from high-quality educational resources, and put the student group on an equal footing through the network, so as to make education further develop on the basis of more equity.

2. Artificial intelligence allows teachers to better fulfill their teaching obligations. Artificial intelligence will have an impact on teachers working in the education industry and even cause them to lose their jobs"There is some truth to this rhetoric, but a better way to deal with it is for teachers and AI teachers to do their jobs and show their strengths. Artificial intelligence has a high efficiency in marking homework and test papers, correcting pronunciation, etc., which can liberate teachers from a lot of tedious work and better provide targeted guidance to students.

3. Artificial intelligence will change the traditional education model, the classroom, canteen, and dormitory are fixed in the three-point-one-line model, and artificial intelligence can replace the classroom with any place where the student is through customized classrooms. From this point of view, education will be more liberal and individualized. On the other hand, schools can also save a lot of money by setting up dedicated personalized learning centers or smaller, distributed structures, which will make the school education model completely new.

The impact of artificial intelligence on education is manifested in changing educational goals, campus environment, teachers' roles, and learning paradigms.

1. Artificial intelligence has changed the goal of educating people.

1. When artificial intelligence becomes the memory and thinking assistant of human beings, the educational goal of students to simply absorb and master knowledge to acquire the skills to earn a living will no longer be important. Education should focus more on cultivating students' love, empathy, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration, and help students accurately position themselves in the new social employment system and life value coordinate system.

2. The change of educational goals and educational concepts will accelerate the reform and innovation of training models, textbook content, teaching methods, evaluation systems, educational governance and even the entire education system.

2. Artificial intelligence has changed the campus environment.

1. In the future, the informatization of the campus environment will move towards a higher-level smart campus, and various intelligent sensing devices and technologies will be everywhere. Principals, teachers, and students have unconsciously embedded themselves in the tangible physical space of the campus and the invisible virtual data space. When students step into the campus, they can complete the check-in, and when they leave the campus, they will automatically inform their families that they will enter the classroom and the equipment has been turned on ......

2. The physical environment of the campus, the classroom teaching environment, and the online learning environment have been fully integrated, realizing the transformation from the data of the environment to the environment of data, from the data of teaching to the teaching of data, and from the data of personality to the personification of data. The campus looks like it's still the same campus, but it's full of human warmth and wisdom.

Third, artificial intelligence has also changed the role of teachers.

1. Some experts pointed out that the three types of people: creative workers, interpersonal connectors, and judges of complex patterns, are the least likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence. The teaching profession satisfies the characteristics of all three groups of people, because teachers must adapt to changing teaching policies and teaching environments, deal with diverse educational and teaching issues for students with different personality traits and needs.

2. Artificial intelligence cannot easily replace the teaching profession. But in the future, AI can change the role and role of teachers. Teachers can be freed from simple and repetitive tasks with low added value, so that they can focus more on building a harmonious and stable teacher-student relationship and promoting the overall long-term development of students.

Fourth, artificial intelligence has made a huge change in the learning paradigm.

1. With the rapid development of cognitive science, brain science and learning science, human-machine collaborative augmented intelligence and group integrated intelligence have become a new direction for the development of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence can analyze students' knowledge mastery from the aspects of knowledge association and group stratification, push learning suggestions, and provide personalized and customized learning content and methods for each student, so as to stimulate students' deep desire for learning.

2. Now that the future has come, for artificial intelligence education, we must not only meet the future in terms of attitude, face the future at the level of attitude, and understand the future at the cognitive level, but also seize the opportunity, face the challenge, and actively build a better future of our own at the practical level of management decision-making, teaching and educating people.

This is a very deep question. Will teachers be replaced by AI? The answer is not so simple.

AI will play an increasingly important role in education for the foreseeable future, but it is unlikely to completely replace human teachers. On the contrary, AI technology and teachers will work together to build a more efficient and personalized education system to provide students with better educational resources and learning experiences.

Why do they say that teachers are the first to be impacted? This may be due to the amazing ability of AI technology to transfer knowledge, such as Chat GPT AI, which enables natural conversations with humans and generates relevant responses based on the information entered by the user. This technology can provide students with rich knowledge resources and intelligent teaching solutions to help students answer various questions.

However, despite the excellent performance of AI technology in knowledge transfer, it is still lacking in cultivating students' creativity, critical thinking skills, etc. In the process of guiding students, analyzing and solving problems, teachers can cultivate these comprehensive abilities of students. These capabilities are even more important in today's competitive and challenging world, and AI technology is not yet able to fully meet this need.

In addition, we cannot ignore the unique value of human teachers. First of all, teachers have a wealth of educational experience and educational sensibilities. Teachers are not only disseminators of knowledge, but also guides, mentors and friends in the growth of students.

While AI technology can impart knowledge, it lacks this kind of education, emotion, and human interaction. Secondly, teachers can teach students according to their aptitude in the teaching process, and carry out personalized teaching according to the characteristics of different students. This is because teachers understand the growth process of students and know how to stimulate students' interests and potential.

Although artificial intelligence technology can provide rich knowledge resources, it still has certain limitations in personalized teaching. Moreover, teachers also play the role of moral leaders in the educational process. Education is not only about imparting knowledge, but also about cultivating character and passing on culture.

Teachers can convey correct values and worldview to students through their own actions and words. Artificial intelligence technology is clearly not up to the task.

To sum up, will teachers be replaced by artificial intelligence? The answer is not so simple.

The development of artificial intelligence has had a wide-ranging impact on education, which is explained here in several ways:

1.Personalized education: AI can provide personalized learning plans and resources for each student by learning and analyzing large amounts of student data to meet the learning needs and abilities of different students.

2.Educational resource sharing: Artificial intelligence can provide students and teachers with educational resources and courses on a global scale through the best education platform and intelligent education applications, breaking the limitations of time and space.

3.Automated assessment: AI can automatically assess students' assignments and exams through natural language processing and machine learning to reduce teachers' workload and provide fast and accurate feedback.

4.Intelligent education tools: Through speech recognition, image recognition, and natural language processing, AII can provide teachers and students with intelligent educational tools, such as intelligent tutoring robots, virtual labs, etc.

5.Education management and decision-making: Artificial intelligence can help schools and educational institutions with education management and decision-making through data analysis and models, such as student enrollment, teacher training, and school development planning.

It should be noted that the development of AI technology has also brought some challenges and issues, such as privacy protection, moral and ethical issues, etc., and it is necessary to strengthen supervision and control in educational applications to ensure that the use of AI is in line with educational goals and values.

a) Advantages of Artificial Intelligence:

1 Changed the mode of teaching. Shift from the traditional teaching-to-learn model to learning-after-teaching, such as MOOCs, flipped classrooms, etc. It can also use intelligence to realize abbreviated teaching, extended teaching, interactive learning, machine learning and other modes.

2. There are various learning methods, such as human-computer learning, which enriches the learning content: such as educational informatization. The learning style is further enriched, and students can learn not only from teachers, but also from machine learning, enriching students' learning content.

3 Helps"Classroom"Resource sharing and balanced development of urban and rural education. Through the Internet, high-quality educational resources in the city can be introduced into the countryside, so that rural students and students can enjoy the same resources.

b) Reasons that cannot be replaced:

1 At present, artificial intelligence cannot be applied to the inheritance and cultivation of culture, teachers are the carriers of culture, and teachers themselves are also culture.

In part, artificial intelligence can pass on knowledge to students, but it cannot pass on the corresponding cultural and humanistic care to students.

2 AI is currently unable to cultivate human emotions, morals, values, and artistry. Compared to teachers, artificial intelligence can only be regarded as yes"A machine without feelings"The teacher-student friendship between teachers and students, the moral role model of teachers as students, and the influence of teachers on students' values are all difficult for artificial intelligence to achieve.

3 It is difficult for AI to replace jobs with a high degree of human care, such as the work of teachers. A teacher's look and action can reflect the care for students.

<> AI, I don't think teachers will be completely replaced by AI. Although AI technology has been widely used in the field of education, such as intelligent education software and intelligent tutoring systems, teachers still play an irreplaceable role in the education process.

First of all, teachers are an important part of the educational process, they are not only imparters of knowledge, but also guides, mentors and role models for students. Teachers can help students overcome difficulties and stimulate students' interest and motivation to learn through personalized teaching methods, emotional education methods and imitation professional guidance.

Secondly, teachers play an important social role in education, they are not only the teachers of students, but also the friends, parents and members of society. Teachers can teach through their words and deeds, convey positive energy, convey correct values and life concepts, and cultivate students' sense of social responsibility and citizenship.

Finally, teachers are representatives of human wisdom who can help students understand and master higher-order thinking skills through their own experience, knowledge, and judgment, and develop students' innovation and leadership skills.

Although AI technology is becoming more and more widely used in the field of education, teachers are still an integral part of the education process, and they will not be completely replaced by AI.

Teachers and students.

Although teachers will not be completely replaced by artificial intelligence, teachers will indeed be affected to a certain extent. This is mainly because the application of artificial intelligence technology in the field of education has begun to gradually change the way of education and teaching mode.

First, AI technology can provide more personalized educational services. Intelligent education software can provide personalized learning content and learning methods according to students' learning situation and interests. To a certain extent, this will affect the teaching methods and teaching modes of traditional teachers.

Second, AI technology can improve the efficiency and quality of teaching. The intelligent tutoring system can monitor and evaluate students' learning progress and learning effect in real time, helping teachers better understand students' learning and make timely adjustments and improvements.

Finally, AI technology can provide more abundant learning resources and learning tools. **The education platform can provide a large number of learning resources and learning tools, so that students can learn at any time and anywhere. This also brings certain challenges to traditional teaching.

Therefore, although teachers will not be completely replaced by AI, teachers will still need to adapt and respond to the challenges of new educational technologies and teaching models.