The Study Abroad experience can be amplified to provide a student with an enhanced enriching experience through the use of available AI tools. These AI tools help the student with academic activities, pre-planning for the experience, and cultural diversity awareness. AI tools can enhance the course's academic activities by offering additional explanations on the covered topics, exploration of career opportunities abroad, generation of own images, and applicable skill mapping. AI tools are useful for pre-planning activities that include using chat bots for exploring visa/documentation checks for assigned country, alternative feasible itineraries, planning "free time", trip budgets, live maps, and route plans for ease of access while in the host country. A student's awareness of cultural diversity is heightened by the use of AI tools to learn and communicate key phrases in another language (i.e. Duolingo, Google Lens, etc.), exposure to cultural norms, and local safety alerts. (#studyabroadtools)
