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AI for learning

AI for learning

AI for student learning and support

Some ideas of how AI can support student in learning and preparing for assessment have been outlined here. Mollick and Mollick (2023) provide further guidance in terms of the roles that AI can take.  

  • Mentor - AI provides feedback to the learner 
  • Tutor – AI provides direct instruction that will be personalised  
  • Coach – AI works with the students to increase metacognition, for example reflect on a recent group learning experience 
  • Teammate – AI acts as a team mate providing alternative functions and suggesting ways to help teams function better 
  • Student – students ‘teach’ AI about a topic and evaluate the output correcting any misconceptions 
  • Simulator – AI builds different role playing scenarios where students can focus on specific concepts or problems to solve  

All of the roles AI can assume are explained in detail in Mollick and Mollick’s (2023) paper with sample prompts to give the AI appropriate persona and instructions and practical advice.  

Mollick, Ethan R. and Mollick, Lilach, Assigning AI: Seven Approaches for Students, with Prompts (September 23, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4475995 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4475995 

WORKSHOP: AI for teaching, learning and assessment