“The goal of ALOE is to develop new artificial intelligence theories and techniques to make online education for adults at least as effective as in-person education in STEM fields,” said Ashok Goel, a professor of computer science and human-centered computing and the chief scientist with the Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Institute of Technology, who will be executive director of the ALOE Institute. “ALOE will develop new types of trainable virtual assistants, novel AI techniques to personalize learning at an unprecedented scale, and AI systems to support both learners and teachers.”ALOE is one of 11 new AI research institutes recently announced by the NSF as an expansion of its NSF AI Institutes initiative that started in 2020. The education-focused ALOE Institute entails 12 partner institutions, including Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia Tech, Drexel, Georgia State University, Arizona State University, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Harvard University, Technical College System of Georgia, Wiley, Boeing, IBM and IMS Global.
https://drexel.edu/now/archive/2021/July/NSF-AI-online-adult-learning/
