Is there untapped potential to use AI at your college or university? While the most well-known applications of AI in higher education include administrative functions, recruitment, admissions, student services, and teaching and learning, there are lesser-known applications that hold immense potential to transform the higher education landscape.
This blog post will highlight three lesser-known use cases where AI can significantly impact higher education: accessibility and inclusion, research support, and research administration.
Ensuring accessibility and fostering inclusion are paramount in higher education, and AI-powered tools are providing innovative solutions to support students with disabilities. These tools offer a range of assistive technologies that enhance inclusive learning environments.
AI is enabling features such as real-time captioning and translation for lectures and text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities for course materials. AI-driven accommodations for various learning disabilities are empowering students with diverse needs. By leveraging AI to enhance accessibility and inclusion, higher education institutions can create a more equitable learning environment that caters to every student’s unique requirements.
AI shows significant promise in academic research by streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency. AI tools are increasingly being used to aid researchers in literature review, data processing, and pattern recognition. Advanced features such as accelerated literature reviews through AI-powered text analysis, data visualization for complex datasets, and collaborative research platforms with AI-driven insights enable researchers to uncover valuable insights faster and more effectively. By harnessing the power of AI in research support, higher education institutions can increase research productivity and facilitate cutting-edge discoveries across various disciplines.
Research administration is crucial to the success and efficiency of research endeavors within higher education institutions. AI systems are now being utilized to streamline the entire research grant lifecycle, from identifying funding opportunities to post-award management. Features like AI-assisted matching of principal investigators (PIs) to funding opportunities, automated grant management with expense categorization, optimized reporting, and improved compliance mechanisms are revolutionizing research administration processes. By leveraging AI in research administration, institutions can save valuable time in pre-award and post-award processes, enhance funding success rates, and support compliance with regulatory requirements.
Lesser-known applications of AI in higher education, such as accessibility and inclusion, research support, and research administration, are instrumental in driving innovation, efficiency, and inclusivity within academic settings. As higher education institutions continue to explore the possibilities of AI, these untapped use cases promise to transform the academic landscape, empower students and researchers, and shape a more inclusive and research-forward educational ecosystem.
The question now is: How will your institution leverage these AI applications to stay at the forefront of higher education? The future of academia is AI-enhanced, and the time to act is now.
Want to explore more use cases? Tambellini Group clients can discuss with their strategic advisor or access a variety of research in our Peertelligent portal, including:
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