As a teacher, I can tell you that we have an obligation to improve every time in terms of technological updating, especially considering that artificial intelligence can help us in higher education to reduce student dropout rates .
Many may wonder:
Why talk about student dropouts?
It is no secret that when we are teenagers we all set our sights on self-improvement, where a profession needs university preparation, students enter our universities with the firm conviction that the teaching-learning process is meaningful and of quality.
In this time when we have been hit by the new crown virus pandemic (covid-19) it is necessary to adapt to new ways of teaching our classes at the university, especially taking into account that the classes cannot be given in the classroom mainly because of the compliance with the laws of social quarantine extended in many countries.
All this means that university classes have to be given virtually and at a distance, as the virtual variable is influential in activating the mechanism of the tools of artificial intelligence in this case, students may find attractive the idea that classes at a distance and virtually can be of quality if artificial intelligence is used.
There are many tools that we can implement today that have their basis in artificial intelligence, however we can not project everything for a present reality, even for the future many of these tools can help us improve the processes in which students accentuate their bases and their tastes in the training programs that best suits them based on this information.
For the teacher it is also very important that artificial intelligence can provide the opportunity to handle statistics that warn when a student is in the possibility of abandoning his subject.
With this prevention we as teachers can attack the problem of that possible student dropout before it happens.
Data management is not only important in industrial development, in which many companies see their production optimized thanks to artificial intelligence, but also in university education, and it could be said that at all levels it can yield good results, as long as the use of data can create an exclusive use of education in a personalized way, where each student could count on the torture of a virtual entity permanently in which their academic needs can be met.
Could artificial intelligence really provide exclusive counselling to each student?
I believe that artificial intelligence can help to ensure that there is permanent support, if possible 24 hours a day, if we first have to assess the educational and learning needs of each student, and based on those needs work on this virtual tutor in which artificial intelligence would be the great protagonist.
In addition to this, it is most likely that artificial intelligence can also help students to clearly establish their goals based on their qualities and skills, so if you study all this very well you can develop a personalized learning and tutoring.
Conclusion
The idea that artificial intelligence can help minimize student dropout in our universities is that students can really feel that they are being assisted permanently, especially in circumstances where their academic needs are not fully met.
The way this artificial intelligence would be applied could be linked to the idea of generating a virtual tutor, where the idea that the student could feel comfortable with notifications that are linked to tools such as social networks, e-mails, among others, is not discarded.
If we manage to extrapolate this challenge, even artificial intelligence could improve the entire educational environment, since it could improve the experience for teachers in order to apply teaching that can achieve significant learning in students.
I hope that you found this article interesting, comment on whether you think it was worth reading, it is also important for me to give your input on this topic, which although it is educational touches on issues of great importance today such as the applications that artificial intelligence has.
