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MyQL is an AI-driven educational tool designed to enhance learning by integrating course materials, offering interactive and experiential learning, and fostering effective collaboration between students and AI.
Background:
Traditional educational environments face challenges adapting to the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, particularly in maintaining student engagement and ensuring effective learning outcomes. There is a growing need for tools that not only provide accurate information but also encourage critical thinking and active collaboration with AI. The invention of MyQL emerged to address these challenges by creating a platform that supports instructors and students through interactive, AI-augmented educational experiences while safeguarding the integrity of learning and privacy.
Technology Overview:
MyQL is a comprehensive AI-powered tutoring system designed to integrate seamlessly into educational settings. It operates through three core components that prioritize the integration of course material, interactive learning, and experiential learning. Instructors can upload relevant course content, enabling the AI to generate responses that are directly grounded in the material, complete with citations. This ensures that students receive precise, context-aware answers related to their coursework. With practice questions and tailored feedback, the platform guides students step-by-step through the material, even introducing intentional inaccuracies to prompt students to critically assess and correct information. By involving students in personalized assignments focused on key learning goals and letting the AI manage secondary tasks, MyQL fosters practical, hands-on learning. Students develop skills in working alongside AI, observing the implications of their choices, and adapting accordingly. Designed to function efficiently on low-end hardware, MyQL prioritizes user privacy and adaptability, making it accessible in diverse educational environments. This technology redefines AI’s role in education, shifting it from a passive source of answers to an active partner in the learning process.
Advantages:
- Enhances learning by grounding AI responses directly in instructor-provided course materials with verifiable citations.
- Promotes critical thinking through scaffolded learning and intentional inclusion of incorrect information for student evaluation.
- Supports experiential and collaborative projects that increase student engagement and practical understanding.
- Facilitates real-time decision-making scenarios that teach students to work effectively alongside AI systems.
- Operates on low-end hardware, ensuring accessibility and privacy across varied educational settings.
- Maintains a high degree of originality in code, reducing reliance on third-party content for greater security and customization.
Applications:
- Higher education institutions seeking to modernize teaching methods with AI-augmented tutoring systems.
- Online and hybrid learning environments requiring interactive, personalized educational tools.
- Schools aiming to train students in collaborative skills with emerging AI technologies.
- Educational programs focused on experiential learning and real-time problem-solving scenarios.
- Settings where low-cost, privacy-conscious AI tools are essential due to limited hardware resources.
Intellectual Property Summary: Patent Pending
Stage of Development: TRL 4
Licensing Status: This technology is available for licensing.
About the Research Foundation for the State University of New York:
As the nation's largest research foundation supporting the nation's largest public university system, The Research Foundation for SUNY powers research and innovation to address today's most pressing problems and shape a better future for generations to come. The Research Foundations supports SUNY researchers leading the way globally in AI for the public good, quantum technologies, next-generation semiconductors, biotech and medicine, energy and climate solutions, and more. The Research Foundation for SUNY is a private, nonprofit educational corporation that is tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3). To learn more, please visit us online at rfsuny.org.
About the State University of New York
The State University of New York is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States, and more than 95 percent of all New Yorkers live within 30 miles of any one of SUNY’s 64 colleges and universities. Across the system, SUNY has four academic health centers, five hospitals, four medical schools, two dental schools, a law school, the country’s oldest school of maritime, the state's only college of optometry, 12 Educational Opportunity Centers, over 30 ATTAIN digital literacy labs, and manages one US Department of Energy National Laboratory. In total, SUNY serves about 1.7 million students across its portfolio of credit- and non-credit-bearing courses and programs, continuing education, and community outreach programs. SUNY oversees nearly a quarter of academic research in New York. Research expenditures system-wide are nearly $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2025, including significant contributions from students and faculty. There are more than three million SUNY alumni worldwide, and annually one in three New Yorkers who earn a college degree is a SUNY alum. To learn more about how SUNY creates opportunities, visit suny.edu.