Influencing the AI Usage and Digital Informal Learning among Islamic Schools Teachers' Functional Skills in Southern Pakistan

Abstract

This paper examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage and digital informal learning contributes in developing Functional skills among Islamic school teachers in Southern Pakistan particularly district of Muzaffargarh. The advances in educational technologies accompanied by informal digital learning practices has led to the question of how teachers prepare and develop their skill for the integration of AI. This research was employed a quantitative research design and data were collected from 420 teachers with the use of a structured questionnaire that was analyzed through SPSS 22. To measure the contribution of AI tools and informal learning channel to the teachers’ functional competencies, we conducted multiple linear regression analysis. The results indicate that digital informal learning has a great importance in enhancing functional skills (p = 0.000 < 0.05) and, therefore, plays a vital role in tutor development. However, AI technologies also had a moderate but insignificant affect on functional skills (p = 0.058 > 0.05). These results draw attention to the importance to target AI training and establish digital learning structures in rural Islamic schools to increase teachers’ capacities. This study furnishes with vital ideas about the adopting of educational technology work, which present real recommendations for professional development, policy improvement and equitable access to digital resources to the sectors that lack resources.