3. AI adaptive learning disruptively transforms the OMO educational mode
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 has led OMO educational mode into public view. With the ability of being free from time and space limitations, delivering better teaching experience, and breaking the boundaries between online and offline realms, OMO educational mode is becoming increasingly popular among educational professionals, parents and students.
AI adaptive learning brings disruptive change to classroom through digital technologies. Lecturer will be completely replaced by AI, while assistant only needs to maintain classroom order and provide emotional support to students.
OMO AI adaptive learning is considered as an advanced OMO educational mode, which is able to solve many pain points of traditional offline/online learning. Compared with traditional offline education, OMO AI adaptive learning has lower requirements for teachers, which fundamentally solves the issues of teacher shortage and high labor cost. It also adopts a mixed class system that allows students of different grades and subjects to study in the same classes, further expanding class scale and reduce operating cost. Moreover, in terms of teaching quality, OMO AI adaptive learning is expected to simulate or even surpass one-on-one personalized teaching in the long run, reaching the level of “fully adaptive learning” and being competitive in both cost and quality. With advantages in content R&D, AI adaptive learning can be fully leveraged by traditional small and medium-sized institutions to solve their brand-building problems.
4. China’s AI adaptive learning will usher in an all-round development in the next few years
Looking back on the development history of the education industry, it coincides with that of the retail industry. Both of them follow the development path of “Offline – Online – O+O – O2O – OMO”. We believe that this is because, in these two industries, offline experience is the key success factor. When the online service develops to a certain stage, industry players will inevitably find that it is difficult to completely replace offline experience, and this would further urge leading players to ultimately integrate online and offline services. Compared with the retail industry, although OMO is still in the early stage in the educational field, we believe that with the fast development of AI technology, OMO AI adaptive learning will undoubtedly become one of the major applications in the education sector.
In terms of the market outlook, EY- Parthenon outlines four development trends of the AI adaptive learning industry: more traditional entrants, more subject coverage, more education stage coverage, and more approach oriented. It is foreseeable that the competition landscape is changing quickly with more players such as education groups, tech companies, and startups entering the market while leading companies such as iFLYTEK and Squirrel AI are also expected to continue to expand.
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