Generative artificial intelligence empowers educational reform: current status, issues, and prospects
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The emergence of Chat GPT has once again sparked a wave of information revolution in generative artificial intelligence. This article provides a detailed overview of the development and technical support of generative artificial intelligence. It conducts an in-depth analysis of the current application of generative artificial intelligence in the field of education, and identifies problems in four aspects: opacity and unexplainability, data privacy and security, personalization and fairness, and effectiveness and reliability. Corresponding solutions are proposed, such as developing explainable and fair algorithms, upgrading encryption technology, and formulating relevant laws and regulations to protect data, as well as improving the quality and quantity of datasets. The article also looks ahead to the future development trends of generative artificial intelligence in education from four perspectives: personalized education, intelligent teaching, collaborative education, and virtual teaching. The aim of the study is to provide important reference value for research and practice in this field.
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TL;DR
This opinion piece reviews generative AI’s development, technical foundations, and current educational applications, then identifies four major problem areas and proposes corresponding solutions. It also outlines future trends in personalized, intelligent, collaborative, and virtual education.
Key findings
- The paper identifies four issues for generative AI in education: opacity and inexplicability, data privacy and security, personalization and fairness, and effectiveness and reliability.
- Proposed responses include developing explainable and fair algorithms, upgrading encryption technology, formulating relevant laws and regulations to protect data, and improving the quality and quantity of datasets.
- It highlights current educational applications such as Duolingo, Squirrel AI, Mathway, Grammarly, Coursera, Knewton’s Adaptive Learning Platform, Turnitin, Yixue Education’s intelligent tutoring system, and VIPKID’s intelligent speech teaching system; Duolingo is described as having “tens of millions of users worldwide.”
- Future development is projected across four perspectives: personalized education, intelligent teaching, collaborative education, and virtual teaching.
Methods
- The article is an opinion piece that uses “macro-level logic analysis as the methodological foundation” to discuss viewpoints and issues.
- It reviews the development history and technical support of generative AI, analyzes current educational applications, identifies problems, proposes solutions, and looks ahead to future trends.
- No empirical sample, dataset, or formal quantitative analysis is described.
Limitations
- Stated by the paper: it may only cover current generative AI technologies and application cases, without involving possible future technologies and scenarios; proposed countermeasures may have implementation difficulties; technological prospects may be based only on current technology and application scenarios; and it may not fully consider social and cultural factors affecting use in education.
- Evident from the text: as an opinion piece using macro-level logic analysis, it does not provide systematic review procedures, empirical testing, or evaluated outcomes for the applications and solutions discussed.
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- Interpretationreasoning
Many educational applications based on generative AI technology have emerged.
“Currently, with the popularity of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets and the development of network technology, many educational applications based on generative AI technology have emerged.”
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Educational applications based on generative AI technology have become important auxiliary tools for modern students' learning.
“Therefore, educational applications based on generative AI technology have become important auxiliary tools for modern students' learning, bringing many conveniences and opportunities to their learning.”
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Data privacy and security are problems in the current application of generative AI in education.
“It conducts an in-depth analysis of the current application of generative artificial intelligence in the field of education, and identifies problems in four aspects: opacity and unexplainability, data privacy and security, personalization and fairness, and effectiveness and reliability.”
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Intelligent teaching systems can automatically adjust the difficulty and content of the course based on the student's learning performance and level.
“The system can automatically adjust the difficulty and content of the course based on the student's learning performance and level, providing learning tasks and exercises that are suitable for the student (Khosravi et al., 2022).”
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Opacity and unexplainability are problems in the current application of generative AI in education.
“It conducts an in-depth analysis of the current application of generative artificial intelligence in the field of education, and identifies problems in four aspects: opacity and unexplainability, data privacy and security, personalization and fairness, and effectiveness and reliability.”
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Some educational applications can use generative AI technology to provide real-time intelligent assessment and feedback to students during the learning process.
“At the same time, some applications can use generative AI technology to provide real-time intelligent assessment and feedback to students during the learning process, helping them better discover and correct errors and improve learning efficiency.”
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Intelligent tutoring systems can provide real-time feedback and suggestions to help students correct mistakes and improve their learning methods.
“Furthermore, the system can provide real-time feedback and suggestions to help students correct mistakes and improve their learning methods.”
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Intelligent tutoring systems can automatically adjust tutoring content and difficulty levels based on students' learning performance and levels.
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Knewton's Adaptive Learning Platform uses AI technology to analyze students' learning data to understand students' learning needs and weaknesses, and generate personalized course content and teaching plans accordingly.
“For example, Knewton's Adaptive Learning Platform uses AI technology to analyze students' learning data, including learning speed, mastery of knowledge points, error rates, etc., to understand students' learning needs and weaknesses, and generate personalized course content and teaching plans accordingly (Lim et al., 2022).”
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Intelligent tutoring systems can generate corresponding tutoring routes and strategies based on students' learning habits and needs.
“Additionally, the system can generate corresponding tutoring routes and strategies based on students' learning habits and needs, enabling students to learn more efficiently and effectively.”
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Intelligent tutoring systems can interact with students' parents and teachers.
“Moreover, the intelligent tutoring system can interact with students' parents and teachers, allowing them to better understand students' learning situations and performances and provide more comprehensive and effective educational support (Zhai et al., 2021).”
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Intelligent teaching systems can interact with students' parents and teachers.
“In addition, the intelligent teaching system can also interact with students' parents and teachers, allowing parents and teachers to better understand students' learning situations and performances, and provide more comprehensive and effective educational support.”
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Intelligent tutoring systems automatically generate corresponding tutoring content and strategies based on the analysis of students' learning situations and personalized needs.
“The intelligent tutoring system automatically generates corresponding tutoring content and strategies based on the analysis of students' learning situations and personalized needs.”
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Intelligent teaching systems can provide real-time feedback and suggestions to help students correct errors and improve their learning methods.
“At the same time, the system can provide real-time feedback and suggestions to help students correct errors and improve their learning methods.”
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Intelligent teaching systems can automatically generate corresponding learning resources and learning paths based on the student's learning habits and needs.
“In addition, the system can automatically generate corresponding learning resources and learning paths based on the student's learning habits and needs, allowing students to learn more efficiently and purposefully.”
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Yixue Education's intelligent tutoring system can improve students' learning efficiency and effectiveness.
“Through this personalized tutoring approach, Yixue Education's intelligent tutoring system can improve students' learning efficiency and effectiveness, providing them with a better learning experience and support (Ouyang and Jiao, 2021).”
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Generative AI needs to be trained on a large dataset to ensure its effectiveness and reliability.
“Generative AI needs to be trained on a large dataset to ensure its effectiveness and reliability.”
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Insufficient datasets or low-quality labeled data can affect the performance and application effectiveness of generative AI.
“Insufficient datasets or low-quality labeled data can affect the performance and application effectiveness of generative AI.”
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Insufficient datasets or low-quality labeled data may cause an automatic grading model to make mistakes, miss important aspects, and affect its accuracy and application effectiveness.
“Insufficient datasets or low-quality labeled data may cause the automatic grading model to make mistakes, miss important aspects, and affect its accuracy and application effectiveness.”
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Generative AI tools such as Bard, ChatGPT, and DALL-E are opening up new fields that will impact how humans learn, interact, and collaborate with each other.
“Generative AI tools such as Bard, Chat GPT, and DALL-E are opening up new fields that will impact how humans learn, interact, and collaborate with each other (Lim et al., 2022).”
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If generative AI models only focus on students' individual needs and interests and ignore important learning objectives and standards, students' knowledge and skills may be less comprehensive and in-depth.
“In addition, if generative AI models only focus on students' individual needs and interests, and ignore some important learning objectives and standards, this may also lead to students' knowledge and skills being less comprehensive and in-depth (Miller, 2017).”
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To train an effective automatic grading model, a large dataset of student essays and high-quality labeled data, such as scores for grammar, spelling, and logic, is required.
“To train an effective automatic grading model, a large dataset of student essays and high-quality labeled data, such as scores for grammar, spelling, and logic, is required.”
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Generative AI can provide personalized learning plans and tools based on students' individual needs and learning styles to improve learning efficiency and effectiveness.
“Generative AI can provide personalized learning plans and tools based on students' individual needs and learning styles to improve learning efficiency and effectiveness.”
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Personalized learning provided by generative AI can lead to unfair outcomes, as different students may face different opportunities and challenges.
“However, this personalized learning can also lead to unfair outcomes, as different students may face different opportunities and challenges.”
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Datasets for generative AI need to contain sufficient data and high-quality labeled data to improve the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm.
“These datasets need to contain sufficient data and have high-quality labeled data to improve the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm (Hughes et al., 2021).”
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PremisecitationThere has been growing research interest in the application of generative AI in education, especially since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022.
“In recent years, there has been a growing research interest in the application of generative artificial intelligence in the field of education, especially since the release of Chat GPT in November 2022, which brought the concept of generative AI to the public attention and sparked increasing interest in its potential impact on education.”
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PremisecitationDuolingo users can learn multiple languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, and Chinese.
“Users can learn multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, and Chinese.”
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Interpretationnone givenPersonalization and fairness are problems in the current application of generative AI in education.
“It conducts an in-depth analysis of the current application of generative artificial intelligence in the field of education, and identifies problems in four aspects: opacity and unexplainability, data privacy and security, personalization and fairness, and effectiveness and reliability.”
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Interpretationnone givenThe application of generative AI in the field of education is increasing.
“With the development of technology, the application of generative AI in the field of education is increasing.”
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Interpretationnone givenEffectiveness and reliability are problems in the current application of generative AI in education.
“It conducts an in-depth analysis of the current application of generative artificial intelligence in the field of education, and identifies problems in four aspects: opacity and unexplainability, data privacy and security, personalization and fairness, and effectiveness and reliability.”
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PremisecitationDuolingo includes various grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, and reading comprehension exercises.
“The application includes various grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, and reading comprehension exercises, and users can improve their language skills by completing these exercises.”
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PremisecitationDuolingo's core concept is to turn language learning into a game.
“The core concept of Duolingo is to turn language learning into a game, helping users to learn new languages easily and happily through interactive learning methods (Lim et al., 2022).”
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PremisecitationDuolingo provides personalized learning plans and real-time feedback.
“In addition, Duolingo also provides personalized learning plans and real-time feedback to help users better understand their learning progress and problems, and provide corresponding advice and support.”
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PremisecitationDuolingo is a free language learning application based on generative AI technology.
“Taking Duolingo as an example, this is a free language learning application based on generative AI technology.”
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InterpretationreasoningGenerative AI may disrupt some educational practices while also supporting them.
“These two perspectives highlight the inherent contradictions of generative AI and its role in education; it may disrupt some educational practices while also supporting them.”
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Premisenone givenIntelligent homework grading can automatically detect various types of student homework, including multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank questions, short answer questions, and essay questions.
“The system can automatically detect various types of student homework, including multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank questions, short answer questions, and essay questions, achieving efficient, accurate and fair homework grading.”
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PremisecitationYixue Education's intelligent tutoring system is based on artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology.
“For example, Yixue Education's intelligent tutoring system is based on artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology, which analyses students' learning situations and performances to generate personalized tutoring content and strategies.”
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PremisereasoningIntelligent homework grading can provide teachers with more efficient and accurate homework management tools.
“Furthermore, the system can also provide teachers with more efficient and accurate homework management tools, saving a lot of time and energy.”
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Premisenone givenIntelligent homework grading automatically analyses students' homework, judges its correctness and errors, and provides corresponding scores and suggestions.
“Intelligent homework grading automatically analyses students' homework, judges its correctness and errors, and provides corresponding scores and suggestions.”
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Premisenone givenIntelligent homework grading can establish corresponding knowledge bases and algorithm models through learning and analyzing historical data to judge whether students' answers are correct.
“Specifically, the system can establish corresponding knowledge bases and algorithm models through learning and analyzing historical data, judge whether students' answers are correct, and provide corresponding scores and suggestions to help students improve their homework.”
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InterpretationreasoningThe Knewton platform can improve students' learning efficiency and effectiveness.
“Through this personalized teaching method, the Knewton platform can improve students' learning efficiency and effectiveness, making teaching more flexible and efficient.”
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Premisenone givenIntelligent homework grading can provide real-time evaluation and feedback.
“In addition, intelligent homework grading can also provide real-time evaluation and feedback, allowing students to timely understand their learning situation and progress.”
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InterpretationreasoningGenerative AI has a wide range of applications in education, but there are also some issues that need to be addressed.
“In conclusion, generative AI has a wide range of applications in education, but there are also some issues that need to be addressed.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim- Rests on an assumption: Generative AI requires a large amount of data to train its models, which may contain sensitive information such as personal identity information and academic records.
- Rests on an assumption: Personalized learning data for students is usually provided by schools or institutions, so students have difficulty controlling their own data and understanding how it is used and shared, which may lead to concerns and mistrust regarding personal privacy.
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PremisecitationDue to the complexity of generative AI models, it is difficult to explain their decision-making process and the basis for generated results, which makes it hard for students to understand why they get a particular answer and how to improve their mistakes.
“Due to the complexity of generative AI models, it is difficult to explain the decision-making process and the basis for generated results, which makes it hard for students to understand why they get a particular answer and how to improve their mistakes (Laupichler et al., 2022).”
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InterpretationreasoningThe application of generative AI in education can assist teachers in better understanding students' learning situations and needs, thus achieving personalized education and improving the quality of education and teaching.
“In summary, the application of generative AI in the field of education can assist teachers in better understanding students' learning situations and needs, thus achieving personalized education and improving the quality of education and teaching.”
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InterpretationcitationIf generative AI educational programs provide more transparent and interpretable decision-making processes and generated results, students will be more likely to understand and accept the teaching content, thus improving learning effectiveness.
“If the program can provide more transparent and interpretable decision-making processes and generated results, students will be more likely to understand and accept its teaching content, thus improving learning effectiveness (Arcaute et al., 2023).”
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PremisecitationVIPKID's intelligent speech teaching system can improve students' oral expression ability and learning effectiveness, providing better learning experience and support for students.
“Through this intelligent speech interaction method, VIPKID's intelligent speech teaching system can improve students' oral expression ability and learning effectiveness, providing better learning experience and support for students (Castelli and Manzoni, 2022).”
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InterpretationreasoningIf a student comes from a poor family, they may not have the opportunity to use high-quality learning tools and resources, which may lead to their learning achievements being inferior to those of other students.
“For example, if a student comes from a poor family, they may not have the opportunity to use high-quality learning tools and resources, which may lead to their learning achievements being inferior to those of other students.”
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Generative AI requires a large amount of data to train its models, which may contain sensitive information such as personal identity information and academic records.
“Generative AI requires a large amount of data to train its models, which may contain sensitive information such as personal identity information and academic records.”
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Personalized learning data for students is usually provided by schools or institutions, so students have difficulty controlling their own data and understanding how it is used and shared, which may lead to concerns and mistrust regarding personal privacy.
“In addition, since personalized learning data for students is usually provided by schools or institutions, students have difficulty controlling their own data and understanding how it is being used and shared, which may also lead to concerns and mistrust regarding personal privacy.”
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The rise of generative AI has sparked panic due to sensationalist articles and swift bans by some educational institutions and organizations.
“The rise of generative AI has sparked panic due to sensationalist articles and swift bans by some educational institutions and organizations.”
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Yu and Guo elaborated on issues to be resolved when using generative AI in education.
“while Yu and Guo (19) elaborated on issues to be resolved when using generative AI in education”
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- Authors
- Yu, H., & Guo, Y.
- Affiliations
- Shaanxi Normal University (CN)
- Northwest University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Yu, Hao
- ORCID
- Yu, Hao
- Venue
- Frontiers in Education
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2023-06-01
- Volume
- 8
- ISSN
- 2504-284X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4379054888
- Cited by
- 357
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 82 · 2025: 145 · 2024: 105 · 2023: 25
- FWCI
- 83.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Frontiers in Education (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Educational Technology and Pedagogy
- Keywords
- generative AI, ChatGPT, educational reform, artificial intelligence in education, explainable AI, algorithmic fairness, data privacy and security, encryption technology, AI regulation, dataset quality, personalized education, intelligent teaching, collaborative education, virtual teaching
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