DEVELOPING AT A GREAT PACE: STUDIES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the courses on artificial intelligence in higher education that are opening at a great pace in recent years. Intelligence can be defined as a very general mental ability that consists of many elements, including reasoning, planning, problem solving, and abstract thinking, understanding complex thoughts, fast learning, and learning through experience. Today technology evolves into a new world of design through artificial intelligence and quantum computing. In this context, artificial intelligence is a field of study that deals with methods to ensure that human intelligence is imitated by the computer. At this point, when the basic subjects of artificial intelligence studies are examined, it is observed that knowledge representation, inference and learning subjects come to the fore. In this respect, although, there is a wide gap in the level of information in local higher education compared with western developed countries like US, Turkish and North Cyprus higher education has made remarkable achievements in infrastructure, key technologies, information technology, and standards construction in recent years. At the mentioned point, when the leading universities operating in Northern Cyprus and Turkey are examined, it is seen that various departments of universities are focusing on very different areas. Conscientiously summing up results, revealing problems and learning from experiences of developed countries will be conducive to accelerate the process of education information in Northern part of Cyprus higher education. The research studied the content of the university official websites to analyse different artificial intelligence course details. With the content analysis main subject areas of Artificial Intelligence courses were examined and the opening date of the courses are investigated for higher Education in Northern part of Cyprus. Additionally, for the aim of comparison, the data from top ten universities in US are exposed according to referred artificial intelligence course related subject areas and course opening dates.