Artificial Intelligence Implementation in Higher Education in China: Case Study of Beijing Technology and Business University
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14276977Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence (AI), higher education (HE), teaching and learning, delivery and managementAbstract
With the swift development of technology, there is an increasing number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies entering into different social fields such as education, healthcare, logistics and chemistry. This research focuses on higher education (HE) field. Previous studies placed more emphasis on the delivery of teaching and learning while ignoring the management of education (Dogan et al., 2023). Besides, most researchers just focused on one application of AI. Therefore, this research is trying to bridge these gaps to explore how AI can be used in higher education to improve the delivery and management of teaching and learning from the aspects of applications. The research follows a qualitative method and a case study of Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU) collected data from internal documents, internal organisational reports, media articles, official website articles and patent. It uses the framework of López-Chila with slight modifications. There are four main applications in BTBU: intelligent tutoring systems, adaptive systems, assessment and evaluation and analysis and prediction.
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