Possibilities and Challenges of Compounding Artificial Intelligence in India’s Educational Landscape

Abstract

The central purpose of this research is to identify the promises that artificial intelligence (AI) holds for future of education in India. For assessing this, qualitative study, lying within the interpretive paradigm, was carried out with senior management level personnel of top-performing EdTech companies of India. Focussed group interviews, comprising of three to five members in each of these companies were inquired about the research objectives, thereby making a total of 306 senior managers, founders and directors, participating in the study. Interviews were transcribed and emerging themes were analysed for their content and discourse using NVivo and Concordance software packages. The emerging findings indicate that AI is very likely to revolutionize the educational landscape in India and shall bring major disruptions in traditional pedagogy. However, several compelling challenges were also identified in the proliferation of artificial intelligence in India’s educational landscape. This research, based on first-hand account of experiences of top managers not only paves the pathway for identifying challenges, but also provides emancipatory way out in handling the emerging challenges when AI expands exponentially in the country, in the coming times.

Keywords : Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, ICT, Technology based Teaching Learning.