Tony Bates looks at a special journal issue he recently edited and comments "only four of the submitted articles provided sound empirical evidence about the effect of AI applications on teaching and learning in higher education and one of these (Zawacki-Richter, et.al.) was a (thorough) review of the previous literature." Now I cited the Zawacki-Richter article in my own survey of this very topic, and I came up with rather more than four application areas. Bates and his colleagues came up with some reasonable explanations (eg., most AI-education research is not published in educational journals) and even more interestingly suggested that "it was naive to think that AI applications were being done to support the current system of teaching and learning, but were more likely in the future to focus on replacing or commercialising higher education learning and teaching." I also think more traditional definitions of 'evidence' and 'success' will have to be rethought. That's probably true. And I wouldn't sit around waiting for educational journals to tell you what's going on in AI and education.
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