Artificial Intelligence has now touched almost every sector. The revolution that it has brought in every aspect of life is quite prominent and the education field is no exception to it. NextSteps has taken this game up a notch by using the innovative and unconventional technique of AI to empower teachers. Taking care of 30-40 students in a class, imparting subject knowledge, preparing notes, reviewing learners, etc., often get challenging for instructors. However, with our AI-based education system, all this will be as easy as falling off a log. The teacher-student relationship is very sacrosanct to the education institution, and hence AI cannot and should not replace teachers. Instead, a blended approach, that brings forward the best of technology (AI) and human touch is the way forward.
Educate with AI is a platform that brings students and teachers at one place where both can gain and share knowledge. This system allows teachers to analyse and monitor the learning progress of the students in real time thereby empowering teachers to take appropriate actions such as – when a lesson needs to be retaught, which students do not master a certain skill, setting individual achievement levels for each student, etc. This system helps educators by recommending the appropriate concept or learning material to use during teaching at required contexts. The platform also helps teachers to digitize the content, annotate & curate the material, and manage the learning materials at one’s own convenience. Assisted by AI, this platform ensures educators to deliver personalized learning experience to their students without wasting time on repetitive administrative activities. To put it more concise, this platform helps educators bring in efficiency, and effectiveness in workflow, output, and learning outcomes.
The conventional process of dealing or instructing a typical classroom with 30-40 students within a span of 1 hour in-class time does not provide a detailed analysis of each of the learners in the class. Our ‘Smart Classroom Management’ brings you an innovative system of understanding various learners in the classroom - be it digital classroom or a brick-mortar classroom. With this feature, Educators are now empowered with insights into each and every student in the classroom with real time LPQ (Learning Progress Quotient) that understands & computes the critical learning parameters of learners - conceptual proficiency, learning patterns, learning preferences, learner-educator synchronisation level, learner focus level, etc. Thus, the educators can analyse such parameters and design distinct methods to deal with different students thereby ensuring the overall progress of the class.
Content Creation The freedom to create the learning material, or to access the available learning materials, or to integrate a group of learning materials on-demand, while teaching a particular concept, empowers educators to craft the lesson plan exactly appropriate to the students. Believing in the same philosophy, we developed this feature for educators to digitize the content, to create various learning materials - such as assessments, videos, graphs, etc. - yet retaining the educator’s unique style of delivering the pedagogy. When teachers want to give their inputs to the study content on a specific topic, it is difficult to incorporate it in the existing material or digitize it. However, our AI Content Creation makes it easier and convenient for educators to produce content and make it accessible for the students. They can use these notes as a reference to teach a particular concept and make the study sessions more interactive. Content Curation Simply creating content or learning materials is not enough for teachers to impart knowledge or for students to comprehend it. If these learning materials are tagged with appropriate concepts, relevant to the context within the learning material, and organised with structured sequence, then such learning materials will no more be static but empowers educators to define learning paths. Our ‘Content Curation’ feature enables educators to achieve such transformation using our unique CCD (Concept In Context Detector) algorithm. Further to creating learning material, the educators will be able to define the semantics of the content across multiple criteria - such as concept relevancy, difficulty level, level of importance, dependent concept, etc. - thereby creating outcome based learning paths. This very feature enacts as the core to the philosophy of deducing the ‘reason’ behind the performance and learning abilities of various learners which exactly is required to be understood by the educators to provide better personalised learning experience. Content Management Creating and curating the learning materials helps educators to just create a library of content with semantics but not to engage the content with the learners. Our ‘Content Management’ feature helps educators to assign the appropriate learning paths tagged with relevant learning materials to the learners based on individual’s learning stage. The system provides educators to understand the learner’s state - through various diagnostic metrics such as concepts covered, degree of proficiency in each concept, level of concept retention, efforts spent, etc. - and recommends the educator an appropriate Content Assignment Strategy (CAS). With more informed decisive insights, educators will now be able to define and control the learning strategy of students thereby monitoring the learning progress. This feature surely gives more power to the educators to decide the education approach within the classroom as well as outside the classroom.