Impact of Expert System as Tools for Efficient Teaching and Learning Process in Educational System in Nigeria

Abstract

Introducing an expert system as tool in the teaching and learning process in the Nigeria educational system is a much needed step to improving the process, this is because it is filled with a few challenges involved. The advent of computer system has definitely opened way to Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) for which an expert system is one. An expert system is a well known area of artificial intelligence which is a computerized tool designed to enhance the quality and availability of knowledge required in educational system. The general society sees CAI/expert system as inevitable and a must in teaching and learning process. Borrowing a leaf from the civilized world in their knowledge preservation and distribution, it now becomes necessary for the Nigeria educational system to adopt CAI, and especially expert to duplicate the rare knowledge and experience of a few experts in different fields of education and to place the Nigerian educational system at par with their international counterparts. Though expert system has enormous benefits, they remain un-established as a useful technology due to few research and documentation. This research work proposes that the effective introduction of expert system in teaching and learning process in Nigerian educational system should be adopted as its advantages over traditional chalk-talk method is innumerable.