The role of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Current Trends and Future Prospects

Today's education plays a vital role in an individual and a society's development. This research have been discovering and developing the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the educational field and coming up with potential applications that have not been known before. Artificial Intelligence explores the new possibilities of innovation in educational technology. Today, artificial intelligence becomes the core element of the modern education system and a basic tool to get competitive advantages of the market. In this paper, we highlight the applications of artificial intelligence in education, existing tools and applications, the latest market and research trends, opportunities, pitfalls, and current limitations of AI in education. In particular, the work reviews the various applications of AI in education including classroom monitoring and recommendation systems, intelligent tutoring, sentiment analysis, students' retention, and drop out the prediction and student grading and evaluations. For this detailed review study, we analyzed various works of related domains, sub-domains like big data in education, educational data mining (EDM), and learning analytics. In this work, Educational applications are analyzed from different perspectives. One side gives a comprehensive depiction of the platforms and tools developed as the product of research work. On the other hand, it recognizes the limitations, potential challenges, and opportunities for future enhancement, and this provides a baseline for future research in the e-learning domain.