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LIBF blog AI-powered learning: faster, smarter, better education

31 July 2024

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming education, making it more personalised, adaptive, and efficient:

  • AI-powered learning provides flexible, personalised study experiences tailored to individual needs and schedules.

  • Real-time feedback and adaptive learning ensure continuous progress and motivation.

  • Customised learning paths address strengths and weaknesses, enhancing overall student performance.

  • AI-based platforms can offer inclusive, accessible learning for students of diverse backgrounds and needs.

  • Future developments in AI promise even greater personalisation and enhanced integration with teachers and educators.

What is AI-powered learning?

With artificial intelligence, we're entering an era where your learning can be supported by an AI-powered learning platform, tutor, or study assistant that understands your unique learning style, provides instant feedback, and adapts to your needs around the clock.


Welcome to the future of education. By harnessing advanced AI technology, education is becoming more personalised, efficient, and engaging. Discover how AI can revolutionise your study experience, helping you achieve your goals faster and smarter than ever before.

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Why is AI-powered learning important for student progress?

AI-powered learning is important because it can provide the flexibility and personalisation needed to meet the diverse needs of students. Whether you're juggling work, family, or other commitments, AI can help you make the most of your study time, ensuring you stay on track toward achieving your goals while receiving a learning experience tailored to your specific goals, strengths, and challenges.

How AI enhances your learning experience

Machine learning can analyse learner data and gather data driven insights that could transform your study experience into one that's more personalised to your strengths and goals as a student.

Real-time feedback and support

One of the biggest advantages of AI-powered learning is the ability to receive instant feedback on your work, making your study routine smarter and more efficient.


Whether through automated knowledge checking, assignments, or interactive quizzes, AI tools can provide detailed feedback immediately, helping you understand and correct mistakes right away. This process of fast feedback has been show to positively influence performance in students using AI-powered feedback to revise and improve an essay – as well as their motivation.

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Adaptive learning

AI adaptive learning technology can adjust the difficulty of your coursework based on your current performance using AI algorithms.


If you’re excelling, the AI can present more challenging material, and if you’re struggling, it can simplify the content and offer additional resources to help you reach the next level.


Adaptive learning can help make sure that you’re always learning at the optimal level, preventing frustration and boredom. And recent studies have shown that adaptive learning experiences can clearly lead to enhanced student performance.

Personalised learning paths

Some AI tools have the ability to analyse your performance and learning strategies to create a personalise learning path, making sure that you spend time on areas where you need the most improvement and recommending relevant courses to address your unique skill gaps.


This personalised approach can help you achieve your goals more efficiently, keeping you motivated and engaged.

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Accessible learning

AI-based learning platforms have the potential to enhance accessibility in education by providing tailored learning materials for diverse students with varying needs, goals, and learning styles. Features such as text-to-speech options, customisable fonts, and 24/7 availability can offer significant support to learners with specific requirements.


By breaking down barriers to education, AI promotes inclusivity and helps create a more equitable learning environment. But it's important to acknowledge that the impact of these tools can vary widely depending on the region you might be studying in and technology available to you.

Increased learner engagement

Access to instant feedback whenever you need it, and personalised learning content tailored to your needs, are likely to be far more inspiring to you than receiving the same education as everyone else, regardless of your different strengths and backgrounds. AI learning platforms can also incorporate gamification and interactive elements to make knowledge retention and learner progress tracking interesting, and sometimes even fun.

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Types of AI-powered learning

Below are three ways AI can be used to enhance your education. If you have a choice of AI learning platforms, understanding the differences between each will help you select the right AI-powered platform to meet your educational goals.

AI-assisted learning

AI-assisted learning involves the use of artificial intelligence tools to support and enhance your learning. These tools can include chatbots that provide instant answers to your queries about course content, virtual tutors that offer personalised learning recommendations, and software that helps with study planning and organisation. AI-assisted learning aims to make studying more efficient and effective by providing additional support tailored to your individual needs.

AI-driven learning

AI-driven learning uses advanced artificial intelligence algorithms to drive your entire learning experience. This approach involves continuously analysing learner data to personalise and direct learning processes in real time. AI-driven learning systems can adapt to each student's unique needs, providing customised content and pacing to ensure the most effective study process.

AI-adaptive learning

AI-adaptive learning focuses on dynamically adjusting the difficulty and style of learning or training materials based on your performance and learning preferences. By harnessing data-driven insights, these systems can modify the content to keep you challenged but not overwhelmed when approaching knowledge gaps, ensuring optimal learning conditions. This personalised adjustment helps maintain learner engagement and promotes better retention of information.

The role of AI in education

As AI technology advances, the role of AI tutors and study assistants in education is becoming increasingly significant. In the US, 60% of teachers report using an AI tool in their classroom (Forbes, 2024), including AI-powered educational games, adaptive learning platforms, chatbots for student support and AI tutoring systems.


For higher education providers, incorporating AI-powered learning solutions means using tools like intelligent tutoring systems, an AI learning platform, and AI-driven analytics to provide you with personalised learning experiences, real-time feedback, and actionable insights.

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What is an AI tutor?

An AI tutor is a virtual instructor that uses artificial intelligence to provide you with personalised educational support. AI tutors can simulate one-on-one tutoring sessions, answer questions, and provide practice problems tailored to your study topic.


AI tutors are available 24/7, making them an accessible resource if you need help outside of traditional classroom hours. They can also track your progress and identify areas where additional practice is needed. This continuous monitoring allows AI tutors to adapt their teaching methods to best suit your learning style.

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What is an AI-powered learning platform?

An AI-powered learning platform, or learning management system (LMS) uses machine learning algorithms to learn from student behaviour and improve it's approach to delivering learning content.


An AI-powered LMS can combine various AI systems, such as virtual tutors, adaptive technologies, and analytics, to provide a comprehensive and personalised learning experiences. An AI-based LMS can also help you manage tasks efficiently, and stay organised and motivated by helping you manage your coursework and schedules.

The future of AI-powered learning

Syntea: your AI study assistant at LIBF

AI-powered learning is revolutionising education by providing personalised, adaptive, and efficient learning experiences that cater to individual student needs. From AI tutors and AI study assistants to advanced learning platforms, AI is enhancing engagement, accessibility, and success rates for students.

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At LIBF, we're revolutionising the UK’s online higher education sector with our own AI study assistant, Syntea. With Syntea, our students get personalised support around the clock directly through our online learning environment. Syntea adapts to your unique learning style and helps you stay on track with real-time feedback, deep learning features and study planning tools.


Experience the future of education with Syntea, your personal AI learning buddy.

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