ABSTRACT
The recent advancement in the field of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) has led education innovators to design and deploy a series of learning technology solutions and assessment models for the entire K–16 education spectrum and beyond. With increasing investments from the private sector, numerous companies have launched solutions that are claimed to help almost all stakeholders in the education ecosystem. While the ultimate implications and the scope of these emerging solutions on online education and especially MOOCs remain unclear at this time, they nonetheless call for scholarly discussions at multiple levels. In an attempt to explore ways to understand and leverage AI and relevant features designed to promote higher-order learning and enable assessment strategies involving new types of future learning activities, we discuss some of the notable innovation examples integrating AI and their future potentials in education. In addition, we discuss some of the AI-based scaffolding and assessment tools now in development.
