This article (27 page PDF) summarizes work that hase been done in relation to AI, analytics and e-learning over the last 25 years. Two things stand out to me. First, it seems to me that most of the reserach still regards the field as solving a search problem, that is, a matter of finding and recommending resources and activities. Second, we can clearly see a shift in the 25 years away from intelligent tutoring systems and toward natural language analysis tools using machine learning or neural networks, for use in things like MOOCs and discussion forums. The fields I have called generative and deontic analytics don't even appear in this study, but I would argue they will be very significant over the next decades, moving analytics (finally!) beyond solving search problems. Part of an IRRODL special issue on AI, E-Learning and Online Curriculum.
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