The growing use of data and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) – computer systems that can copy intelligent human behaviour – has enabled companies to offer their customers more individualised products and services, which have transformed many different parts of people’s everyday lives.
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Personalised learning – a student-focused educational approach that tailors the instruction based on an individual’s strengths, interests and goals – is also becoming increasingly popular with universities worldwide.
Educational institutions that have adopted personalised learning have reported positive outcomes including improved student engagement and academic results.
One place that fully embraces personalised learning and has introduced the use of AI in its classes is Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), an international joint-venture university in Suzhou, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, founded by Xi’an Jiaotong University in China and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
The university, which was established in 2006 and celebrates its 20th anniversary next year, is based at two campuses in Suzhou Industrial Park and Taicang, a county-level city about an hour’s drive northeast of Suzhou.
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It offers more than 100 degree programmes in the fields of science, engineering, business, finance, architecture, urban planning, language and culture, with all of them taught in English.