Current AI deployments in higher education remain task-oriented rather than ecosystem-oriented despite advances in LLMs and multimodal AI¶

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Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2030: baselines and conditions change

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q2 i? Functional fragmentation of AI systems persists in higher education: systems specialize in discrete tasks such as feedback generation, scheduling, or content delivery with limited integration across learning processes. → Sudarshan VK 2025

Evidence¶

Sudarshan VK 2025¶

Sudarshan VK, Sisodia A, Ramachandra RA, Sia B, Chong Leng Leng J. (2025). Agentic AI Ecosystems in Higher Education: A Perspective on AI Agents to Emerging Inclusive, Agentic Multi-Agent AI Framework for Learning, Teaching and Institutional Intelligence. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14266 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.14266

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Theme 1 of the article's thematic analysis of studies in its Tables 2 and 3, an inductive coding of functional roles and limitations. The review reports that function-specific applications such as AutoTutor, Gradescope, Woebot, and Course Signals "predominantly operate within narrow functional boundaries".

"This fragmentation persists despite advancements in large language models an d multimodal AI systems, indicating that current deployments largely remain task -oriented rather than ecosystem -oriented."

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