The artifical intelligence applications to learning programme

Abstract

The Artificial Intelligence Applications to Learning Programme has been funded since 1987 by what is now known as the Training, Enterprise and Education Directorate (TEED). The Programme aimed to explore and accelerate the use of AI technologies in learning, in both the educational and industrial sectors. The ten demonstrator projects were evaluated for their impact on industry and on further and higher education, while the project was in progress and later during its dissemination phase. The most useful outcomes of evaluation emerged during the latter phase, when the innovations had had an opportunity to become established and brought to market. There were issues related to technology-drive and the need to find problems for which the solution existed through group collaboration. One profitable line of development was to use AI to enrich training systems. An ideal training system must feel “good” to the client, should go beyond existing adaptive training systems, offer a high rate of training, be cost effective, have visual appeal, give sophisticated feedback, should fit closely with the user's current practice, and should have a shele life of more than 3 years.