“Artificial Intelligence and its impact on education -empirical investigation”

Abstract

Prior to the introduction of computers and other related technologies, instructors and students, engaged in instructions and learning mechanically, or through the pure application of natural human effort. With the introduction of microcomputers, and by extension, personal computers in the 1970s, which according to Flamm, provided more computing power and marked an important transition to electronic computers for the mass market. In agreement, Campbell-Kelly opined that with developments of the electronic computers, more particularly, and the availability of the same for different entities across different sectors of the economy, was precipitated by the developments of personal computers in the 1970s. Personal computers development made it possible for individuals and other non-governmental entities to own and use computers for different reasons. These transitions harbingered the proliferation of computers in different sectors of the economy and society.