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Observer
4 days ago
- Business
- Observer
We stopped teaching like its 1985. Here's what happened.
By Nitish Jain, President, SP Jain School of Global Management You're 24. You walk into a job interview with a global tech firm. It's your dream role. A panel of three stares back at you, resumes in hand. The questions come fast. Go-to-market strategy for the UAE. Pricing model for a new subscription-based product. A curveball on AI ethics. You're nervous, but not frozen. You've been here before. Not once or twice, but again and again over the past week. What the panel doesn't know is that you've faced these exact questions. At 10 PM, 2 AM, whenever you needed to. Not with YouTube videos or coaching classes, but with an AI tutor that's been part of your MBA journey from day one, fully integrated into your curriculum. This tutor didn't spoon-feed answers or give generic hacks. It interrogated your thinking. Pulled up real questions asked by real companies. Challenged your logic until your answers held up under pressure. It even pushed back: 'What is the risk you're not seeing here?' or 'That answer sounds safe. Do you actually believe it?' This wasn't revision, it was targeted career prep shaped around you. And by the time you sat in that interview, you were ready. Sounds like a future ambition? It's not. It's happening right now at SP Jain School of Global Management. Students are showing up sharper. Cracking interviews in half the attempts it used to take. Not because they studied harder, but because we stopped teaching like it's 1985. Learning that listens, not lectures Walk into most university classrooms today, and you'll feel like you've stepped into a time capsule. A professor stands at the front, delivering a lecture. Students take notes. Then comes the exam, the grade, the degree. A model that hasn't changed in over a century. Meanwhile, the world outside is moving at warp speed. Job roles are being reinvented. Skills go obsolete in months. AI and automation are rewriting the rules. And yet, education remains slow, standardised, one-size-fits-all. The disconnect keeps growing, and students are the ones paying for it. So at SP Jain Global, we didn't just tweak the old model. We asked: what would learning look like if we built it for tomorrow's learners? The answer was AI. Not as a chatbot or a shiny tool on the side, but as the foundation. That's how we built AI-ELT, our AI-enabled learning assistant, to become a core part of how our students learn. Supporting the UAE's vision for AI As the first country in the world with a dedicated Minister of Artificial Intelligence and with a bold National Strategy for AI 2031, the UAE is actively shaping the future of global innovation. From the vision of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai to introduce AI as a formal subject across K–12 schools in September 2025, to planning to issue over 100,000 Golden Visas to AI professionals, the country is investing deeply in building future-ready human capital to support the adoption of AI in the region. At SP Jain, we see it as our responsibility to carry His Highness' vision forward. Our More than technology. It's intent. AI-ELT wasn't built to just deliver content or run base-level quizzes. It was built to question you, challenge you, push you. It prepares you before class. Supports you after class. And sharpens your thinking when no one else is around. It takes you from two to four to six to ten. Step by step, until your thinking holds up anywhere. Imagine the confidence with which you enter class. You're energised because you're no longer scrambling to understand the basics. You've covered that with the AI already. You're ready to speak up. To debate. To make decisions. And so is everyone else. Class time shifts from what to why. From definitions to decisions. It becomes a live, intellectual workout. Faster-paced. More demanding. Infinitely more valuable. Even quiet students speak up because they've already done the hard thinking in private, with the AI-ELT forcing them to clarify and commit to their ideas. That's the real power of AI in education. Not automation. Not convenience. Not replacing teachers. But transformation. Removing the parts of education that never really worked. The lectures no one remembers. The surface-level prep. The guesswork. It's about creating thinkers, not note-takers. It's about turning classrooms into conversations. And most of all, it's about giving every student, not just the lucky few, access to the kind of deep, personal mentorship and learning that actually sticks. This is what education should have been all along. And now, it finally is.
Daily Tribune
6 days ago
- Business
- Daily Tribune
We stopped teaching like its 1985. Here's what happened.
TDT | Manama You're 24. You walk into a job interview with a global tech firm. It's your dream role. A panel of three stares back at you, resumes in hand. The questions come fast. Go-to-market strategy for the UAE. Pricing model for a new subscription-based product. A curveball on AI ethics. You're nervous, but not frozen. You've been here before. Not once or twice, but again and again over the past week. What the panel doesn't know is that you've faced these exact questions. At 10 PM, 2 AM, whenever you needed to. Not with YouTube videos or coaching classes, but with an AI tutor that's been part of your MBA journey from day one, fully integrated into your curriculum. This tutor didn't spoon-feed answers or give generic hacks. It interrogated your thinking. Pulled up real questions asked by real companies. Challenged your logic until your answers held up under pressure. It even pushed back: 'What is the risk you're not seeing here?' or 'That answer sounds safe. Do you actually believe it?' This wasn't revision, it was targeted career prep shaped around you. And by the time you sat in that interview, you were ready. Sounds like a future ambition? It's not. It's happening right now at SP Jain School of Global Management. Students are showing up sharper. Cracking interviews in half the attempts it used to take. Not because they studied harder, but because we stopped teaching like it's 1985. Learning that listens, not lectures Walk into most university classrooms today, and you'll feel like you've stepped into a time capsule. A professor stands at the front, delivering a lecture. Students take notes. Then comes the exam, the grade, the degree. A model that hasn't changed in over a century. Meanwhile, the world outside is moving at warp speed. Job roles are being reinvented. Skills go obsolete in months. AI and automation are rewriting the rules. And yet, education remains slow, standardised, one-size-fits-all. The disconnect keeps growing, and students are the ones paying for it. So at SP Jain Global, we didn't just tweak the old model. We asked: what would learning look like if we built it for tomorrow's learners? The answer was AI. Not as a chatbot or a shiny tool on the side, but as the foundation. That's how we built AI-ELT, our AI-enabled learning assistant, to become a core part of how our students learn. Supporting the UAE's vision for AI As the first country in the world with a dedicated Minister of Artificial Intelligence and with a bold National Strategy for AI 2031, the UAE is actively shaping the future of global innovation. From the vision of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai to introduce AI as a formal subject across K–12 schools in September 2025, to planning to issue over 100,000 Golden Visas to AI professionals, the country is investing deeply in building future-ready human capital to support the adoption of AI in the region. At SP Jain, we see it as our responsibility to carry His Highness' vision forward. Our AI-ELT virtual tutor is integrated into the learning curriculum from day one, equipping students with the skills to understand, apply, and adapt AI tools in real-world settings. As industries increasingly adopt AI across all sectors, we aim to prepare students for careers that align with this shift, ensuring they graduate with both the skills and mindset to thrive in an AI-integrated workplace. With an ambitious AI strategy and strong government support, there is no better city in the world than Dubai for a student looking to pursue a future career in artificial intelligence. More than technology. It's intent. AI-ELT wasn't built to just deliver content or run base-level quizzes. It was built to question you, challenge you, push you. It prepares you before class. Supports you after class. And sharpens your thinking when no one else is around. It takes you from two to four to six to ten. Step by step, until your thinking holds up anywhere. Imagine the confidence with which you enter class. You're energised because you're no longer scrambling to understand the basics. You've covered that with the AI already. You're ready to speak up. To debate. To make decisions. And so is everyone else. Class time shifts from what to why. From definitions to decisions. It becomes a live, intellectual workout. Faster-paced. More demanding. Infinitely more valuable. Even quiet students speak up because they've already done the hard thinking in private, with the AI-ELT forcing them to clarify and commit to their ideas. That's the real power of AI in education. Not automation. Not convenience. Not replacing teachers. But transformation. Removing the parts of education that never really worked. The lectures no one remembers. The surface-level prep. The guesswork. It's about creating thinkers, not note-takers. It's about turning classrooms into conversations. And most of all, it's about giving every student, not just the lucky few, access to the kind of deep, personal mentorship and learning that actually sticks. This is what education should have been all along. And now, it finally is.
Time of India
29-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
SP Jain Group launches AI-powered learning tool for business students
The SP Jain Group has rolled out an artificial intelligence-based tutor designed to support students across various stages of their academic work. The AI-Enabled Learning Tutor (AI-ELT) is being positioned as a curriculum-specific tool to assist learners in preparing for classes, completing projects, revising for exams, and developing professional skills. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Introducing AI-ELT – The SP Jain Group's new AI-Enabled Learning Tutor Unlike widely used general-purpose AI chatbots, AI-ELT has been trained on the institution's own business curriculum, with a focus on course-specific content, learning outcomes, and evaluation rubrics. It will help interacting with students through guided questioning in a Socratic style, aiming to reinforce conceptual understanding through dialogue rather than direct answers. The tool has been integrated into several parts of the academic process: Pre-class preparation: Students can use the tool to review key concepts and go through case-based questions ahead of lectures. Project mentoring: AI-ELT helps with structuring academic and industry research projects, suggesting models and analytical approaches. Exam readiness: The tool can generate exam-style questions, identify knowledge gaps, and provide feedback. Interview practice: It also includes features for simulating interviews and improving communication skills. The SP Jain Group says the system is designed to be accessible at all times, giving students on-demand academic support regardless of their proficiency level. The tool is also intended to ease the burden on faculty by providing scalable support outside class hours. While institutions globally are experimenting with AI in education, SP Jain's adoption of a course-specific platform reflects a growing interest in using AI to personalise learning at scale. The group says the tool is part of a broader shift toward technology integration in business education. AI-ELT is currently in use across SP Jain's undergraduate and postgraduate business programs. The group has not yet commented on how it plans to assess the tool's effectiveness or whether it will be expanded further.
