ChatGPT and Moodle Walk into a Bar: A Demonstration of AI’s Mind-blowing Impact on E-Learning

Abstract

Are you ready to explore the next frontier in e-learning with ChatGPT? This innovative artificial intelligence technology will revolutionize the way we teach and learn in Moodle, the world-renowned Learning Management System. In this article, the author draws attention to five incredible capabilities of ChatGPT that will blow your mind: contextual conversing, feedback response, analytical power, adaptive tutoring, and multilingual capabilities. The article also walks you through the three-step technical procedure of integrating ChatGPT in Moodle using a publicly accessible Moodle instance at ResearchIC.com. It continues the excitement to show eight potential use cases, which are providing a user manual for the system, prompting for information, performing calculations on numerical data, interpreting data analysis results, generating data for educational purposes, supporting course design activities, providing emotional support, and supporting extended learning. The article concludes with a discussion of six challenges that may arise when using ChatGPT in education, but overall maintains an optimistic view of the future of applying ChatGPT to enhance teaching and learning.

Keywords: ChatGPT, artificial intelligence in education, Moodle, e-learning, use cases