Morehouse College, a historically Black college for men in Atlanta, Georgia, has announced plans to begin utilizing AI teaching assistants in the fall 2024 semester.
The AI teaching assistant initiative aims to provide students with an office hours setting they can access at any time, even when their professor is unavailable. Through collaboration with the college’s technology partner VictoryXR, the virtual assistants will use professor-created content and course material to help students with questions, run assessments, and use 3D models to explain concepts.
Muhsinah Morris, professor and director of Morehouse’s virtual learning campus, Metaversity, will be one of the first professors to implement an AI teaching assistant in the fall. A demo of her virtual teaching assistant is available to the public and can be accessed here.
Morehouse hopes to establish an AI teaching assistant for every professor at the college over the next three to five years.
