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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.

Sec. Digital Education

Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Teaching Model Based on Artificial Intelligence and Data-Driven Approaches

Provisionally accepted
Lili  ZhanLili Zhan1Hongchun  ZhuHongchun Zhu1Hongchun  ZhuHongchun Zhu1Wenhui  WangWenhui Wang1Muhammad  YasirMuhammad Yasir2*Felipe  Augusto Pereira De FigueiredoFelipe Augusto Pereira De Figueiredo3*
  • 1Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
  • 2College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China university of petroleum (East China), Qingdao , china, Qingdao, China
  • 3National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Brazil, Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Brazil

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Based on the challenges of cultivating innovative talents in emerging engineering disciplines, this study ad-dresses challenges such as low levels of student engagement and limited innovation capacity in the "Principles and Methods of Remote Sensing" course. Guided by constructivist learning theory, an intelligent blended teaching model empowered by artificial intelligence and data analytics was designed and implemented. This model, structured around the 5E instructional framework, establishes a teaching closed-loop of "Engagement–Exploration–Explanation– Elaboration–Evaluation" through intelligent content delivery, human–computer collaborative teaching activities, and a data-driven feedback mechanism. A three-year quasi-experimental study involving 706 students demonstrated that the model significantly enhanced learning outcomes: the excellence rate increased from 5.1% to 11.25%, while the failure rate decreased from 8.1% to 1.44%. Moreover, it effectively stimulated students' innovation capacity, resulting in 19 approved national-level innovation and entrepreneurship projects and 293 academic publications. This study pro-vides a replicable theoretical and practical paradigm for the construction and application of intelligent teaching mod-els in higher engineering education.

Keywords: Smart teaching model, Artificial intelligence (AI), big data, 5E deep learning, remote sensing education, constructivist Learning Theory, student engagement

Received: 28 Aug 2025; Accepted: 10 Nov 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Zhan, Zhu, Zhu, Wang, Yasir and Pereira De Figueiredo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence:
Muhammad Yasir, lb2116001@s.upc.edu.cn
Felipe Augusto Pereira De Figueiredo, zz4fap@gmail.com

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