The transformation experienced by the educational environment has been very important in the last two years. This change, partly forced by the appearance of the global pandemic, has revealed certain needs that must be covered in order to achieve an effective, modern and efficient education.
The search for efficient tools to carry out teaching work via telematics or organization of tasks have concentrated part of the efforts of the educational environment. Yet they are appearing different initiatives where Artificial Intelligence is actively present to generate solutions that help teachers, research teaching staff (PDI), administrative staff (PAS) and by extension, students.
Help for teachers
Without going into the cinematographic dystopia of machines replacing teachers, there are ideas in which a chatbot can serve as support for teachers, sometimes, overwhelmed by the number of students and tasks to perform.
This month, the California Teachers Association published in this article, a series of keys by which a chatbot can improve teaching work. Answering the same questions from students more quickly and efficiently, saving time when creating and correcting multiple choice exams, promoting proactivity thanks to an Intelligent Assistant, are some of the reasons why this group is encouraged to try a chatbot as a teacher's assistant.
Also, they don't stop there. They also open the melon the ability of the chatbot to become something like a personal tutor for some students and thus create an experience of commitment on the part of the teaching staff, students and the center itself.
new examples
La Walden University, In collaboration with Google Cloud, Julian has been tested. Is about a chatbot that is designed to behave like an online tutor and that is capable of setting exams, correcting them and monitoring the progress of the students.
The Minneapolis online university center has begun to explore this option when they have seen, they say in this articleor what virtual teaching has come to stay. Although he is in a trial period, Julian is already marking a path to improve and help the work of the teaching staff.
DulcineIA is already in the classroom
1millionbot has already developed a Virtual Assistant capable of entering the classroom to help teachers and, above all, students. In this case it is a chatbot called dulcineia, who is in charge of helping to read the first part of Don Quixote.
This is an activity subsidized by the Ministry of Culture of Spain and carried out in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes. DulcineIA helps to know words, references, titles of works that are mentioned in the work of Cervantes, as well as elements that help to contextualize the adventures of Don Quixote.
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