Leveraging artificial intelligence in education a comprehensive review of the Arab literature

Abstract

This descriptive analytical study relied on the systematic literature review (SLR) addressing the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving education management and delivery, empowering teaching and teachers, learner learning, and learning assessment. The SLR sample was determined in 125 articles from Almandumah and Scopus databases. The analysis results revealed: 39.2% of articles were related to the Saudi Arabia context, 34.4% were published in 2024, and 68.8% were quantitative. The most prominent AI applications used were: ChatGPT, Alexa, Grammarly, Duolingo, Chatbot, and Coursera. The results also showed that the most areas of the educational process in which AI applications can be implemented were: empowering teaching and teachers (62.4%), and improving learner learning (48.8%). The SLR also came up with some practices that can be applied to enhance the AI use in improving the educational process. An opinion poll was applied on 37 academic experts to identify their agreement on the potential of implementing these developed practices in the areas of the educational process. The results showed that the experts' agreement on the potential of implementing these practices in the areas of the educational process was very high. The study recommended some useful mechanisms for implementing these practices.