Qualitative Study on Artificial Intelligence in Curriculum Development at University Level of Education in Nigeria

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surfaced as a revolutionary technology holding immense potential in multiple domains including the field of Education with significant role in curriculum development. This paper aims at studying the role of Artificial Intelligence in curriculum development, exploring how it can improve educational practices and outcomes in Nigerian Universities. It discusses Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven approaches in personalized learning, adaptive assessments, and intelligent content delivery. These case studies and examples highlight the diverse applications of Artificial Intelligence in curriculum development, demonstrating its potential to enhance learning outcomes, individualize instruction, and streamline administrative processes in education. The writers discuss the concepts of Artificial Intelligence, key Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Education, advantages and disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence in curriculum development, concept of curriculum development, components of effective curriculum development, Roles of Artificial Intelligence in curriculum development process in Nigerian universities. It was concluded that, technological advancements such as integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) play a significant role in curriculum development process especially in Nigerian universities and it was recommended that, The federal government through the Federal Ministry of Education and National Universities Commission (NUC) should ensure that every university in Nigeria whether public or private meet the minimum standard of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their academic programmes before full accreditation will be given to them and the federal government should increase the budgetary allocation of all Nigerian federal universities for the procurement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for successful curriculum development programme in Nigerian universities among others. Keyword: Qualitative Study, Artificial Intelligence, Curriculum Development and University Level