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Personalized learning was one of Tecnológico de Monterrey’s three strategic initiatives in 2025, alongside the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and high-quality Digital Education.
So states the 2025 Educational Innovation Report, which notes that more than 64 thousand students and 1,285 teachers across all educational levels of the Institution participated in these educational innovations. It also reports that technologies are driving new models of personalized education, which translate into improved teaching effectiveness.
According to research by the Institute for the Future of Education (IFE), students who participated in the adaptive leveling modules improved their evaluation scores between 20 and 48 points. This innovation materialized through AI-based educational leveling modules for first-year students, self-directed learning modes, and courses employing a progressive-mastery methodology.
For Beatriz Palacios, Director of Educational Innovation and Digital Learning, the commitment extends beyond these models. The 2025 Educational Innovation Report indicates that throughout 2025, each of the six Tec Schools developed its own projects that combine technology, pedagogical creativity, and disciplinary relevance.
“We foster a culture of educational innovation among our teachers, schools, and areas involved, ensuring that relevant processes and practices are applied every day, aligned with our strategic priorities.”
From industrial process simulators in extended reality to AI agents that create legal interviews, the innovations of 2025 reflect a diverse ecosystem that places students in real-world situations. “We promote personalization and flexibility in educational paths, ensuring solutions adapted to the individual profiles and needs of each student,” said the Director of Educational Innovation.
Personalized Learning for Student Success
Personalized learning, one of Tec’s 2025 strategic initiatives, involved 10,350 students across various courses. In the current global context, where higher education has shifted towards flexible, student-centered models, the personalization of learning has become a fundamental strategy for boosting academic success.
This innovation leveraged artificial intelligence platforms to develop three impactful student activities:
- Adaptive modules with artificial intelligence to diagnose first-year students and generate personalized content and study paths.
- Non-linear learning paths with independent modules that adapt to the student’s knowledge in each topic.
- Self-directed courses are available 24 hours a day, allowing students to advance autonomously without a fixed sequence or schedule.
These three actions accounted for 16% of the total number of students affected by the institutional initiatives in 2025 and constitute the basis for Tec’s 2026 educational model.
In parallel, the TECgpt ecosystem allowed teachers to design conversational agents and personalized experiences for their classes. Meanwhile, the TECbot Académico (Academic TECbot) answered questions in real time in the institutional learning management system.
To extend educational personalization beyond the classroom, Tec launched “Academic Success Plans” within “miVida Tec” (My Tec Life) last August. This self-management tool allows each student to track their entire academic journey, from the first semester to the day they receive their degree, ensuring personalized learning.
Educational Innovation in Each Tec School
The report documents that in 2025, Tec’s six schools developed learning experiences tailored to the contexts and needs of each disciplinary program, and included the AI, personalization, and high-quality Digital Education pillars in each.
Personalization, which at the institutional level was reflected in adaptive platforms and self-directed models, was expressed uniquely in the Schools of Business, Humanities and Education, Architecture, Art and Design, Engineering and Sciences, Social Sciences and Government, and Medicine and Health Sciences.
Simulators and Extended Reality to Solve Real Problems
At the School of Engineering and Sciences, one of the most cited projects in 2025 was the Tec Factory Park, a simulator of automotive production processes in extended reality. Here, students analyzed real-world scenarios, examining ergonomics, quality control, and process optimization, while teachers could observe students’ performance in real time.
Throughout the year, the School of Engineering and Sciences also developed experiences for AI in Data Analytics projects and in the Intestinal Microbiota Simulator, a virtual reality intestinal microbiota simulator.
AI for Training Legal and Negotiation Skills
The School of Social Sciences and Government’s commitment was to leverage AI in activities that required lengthy preparation. The Law AInterview project integrated an AI agent in simulations of complex legal cases. It helped seventh-semester law students conduct client interviews, resulting in a 47% to 80% improvement in their ability to obtain key legal information.
Other initiatives included virtual reality simulators for international negotiation and a qualitative analysis exercise using AI to study digital violence against minors.
Immersive Negotiations with Avatars and Artificial Intelligence
With the “Real de Platas” project, 115 students from the Business Schools on the Guadalajara, Mexico City, and Santa Fe campuses participated in a simulated negotiation using an avatar.
The AI-controlled avatar represented a British executive in the tourism sector. The simulation incorporated gamification, immediate feedback, and a safe environment in which students could practice, make mistakes, and learn.
The students also worked on the “Investment Analysis 2.0” project, which uses a neuroscience-based negotiation methodology that employs biometric devices to measure students’ emotional responses in real time.
AI Assisted Creative Design
In the School of Architecture, Art and Design, students worked with the D.I.A. (Designing Iterations, Empowering the Design Process with AI) Agent. This tool fosters students’ ideation during the design conceptualization process with AI assistance. Through the AI’s guiding questions and automated feedback, students redefine their approach to the design process.
The School also implemented extended reality workshops to strengthen students’ spatial representation skills and their moodboard generation using generative AI, to develop critical and ethical thinking in artistic processes.
Technology Applied to Clinical Practice
The School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ educational innovation aimed to strengthen the link between technology and clinical practice through the use of TecGPT. This AI-assisted Dentistry project helped students generate patient risk tables.
Also, with TECgpt, multiple-choice questions were generated in accordance with NBME (National Board of Medical Examiners) standards to evaluate students’ practice in a training unit or clinical subject within the medical discipline program.
AI-assisted Audio Visual Content Creation
The School of Humanities and Education focused its strategy on strengthening learning with technology. One of the most representative projects was content creation with generative AI.
Thirty students designed entire audiovisual campaigns using AI tools to learn how to identify AI hallucinations, verify information, and refine their prompts to improve the quality of AI results. The School also implemented Sonósfera VR, iterative prompts, and Virtual Simulation to analyze social media content.
AI for Strengthening Professional and Social Skills
Students participating in the Student Leadership and Training (LiFE) program, which complements academic training, worked on a project to integrate “Big Interview.” The AI platform simulates job interviews and provides students with immediate feedback on their eye contact, word choice, and response structure to prepare them for future work.
Together with the FEMSA Foundation, LiFE also promoted the Cultural Management for Social Transformation course, in which 15 students applied the Inspire-Create-Impact methodology to carry out interventions in communities.
Tec Innovation Statistics
The 2025 Educational Innovation Report is part of Tecnológico de Monterrey’s commitment to its Road to 2030 plan, whose five axes propose to promote innovation through artificial intelligence as an institutional differentiator. During 2025, Tec de Monterrey’s educational innovation initiatives reached more than 64,000 students and had the active participation of 1,285 teachers in high school, professional, and graduate schools.
The report also highlights the training of more than 5,000 teachers in innovation and educational technology skills. Additionally, more than 1,200 Digital Learning Experiences were developed employing artificial intelligence, extended reality, and interactive simulations.
In academic settings, students who used adaptive leveling modules showed learning gains of 20 to 48 points. Likewise, 43% of professional students took at least one subject in digital mode, compared with 11% the previous year.
Internationally, Tec placed 13 finalist projects in the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2025, with four winning initiatives: two Gold and two Silver awards.
The report is prepared by the Directorate of Educational Innovation and Digital Learning of the Vice-Rectory for Educational Innovation and Academic Regulations of Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Download the full report here.
Translation by Daniel Wetta
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