In what ways can AI and other digital technology reduce teacher workload and improve student outcomes? How can AI and digital technology impact on productivity?

Related UKRI funded projects

• An innovative online teaching platform that uses AI to create digital teachers and tailored lessons in order to augment teaching capacity in schools

  Trulience is a UK-based technology SME with a core project team of Marek Zwiefka-Sibley (tech entrepreneur/ex-senior director of Blackboard Inc.) and Benjamin Weekes (CTO/ex-technical director of Blackboard Inc.). There...

  Funded by: Innovate UK

  Lead research organisation: TRULIENCE LIMITED

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project addresses the use of AI in creating digital teachers to reduce teacher workload and improve student outcomes.

• Publishing People – Investigating AI’s ability to preserve - and facilitate interaction with - the knowledge, experience and specialism of industry experts

  2022 research by the UK's National Education Union has found that nearly half of all teachers \[a staggering 44%\] plan to leave the profession by 2027 and that 'over half of teachers say their workload is either 'unmana...

  Funded by: Innovate UK

  Lead research organisation: EDEN FIFTYONE LTD

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project investigates AI's ability to preserve and facilitate interaction with industry experts, reducing teacher workload and improving student outcomes.

• An innovative EdTech platform using AI-powered algorithms to create PSHE-compliant lessons 80% faster than existing methods available to teachers

  LifeWise Technologies Limited is a UK-based education technology SME with a core project team of Ezra Chapman (CEO), Larissa Foster (product manager), Harry Bradley (technology delivery manager) and Julie Whitney (former...

  Funded by: Innovate UK

  Lead research organisation: LIFEWISE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project focuses on using AI to create lessons faster and improve student wellbeing, addressing teacher workload and student outcomes.

• Progressay- accelerate pupil progress through remote A.I. powered marking

  Due to school closures in the UK, there has been a significant increase in the demand for inclusive digital learning. Whilst most pupils from privileged backgrounds have access to online learning, many from disadvantaged...

  Funded by: Innovate UK

  Lead research organisation: MOTIVE8 LEARNING LIMITED

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project uses AI for remote marking to reduce teacher workload and address the attainment gap, showing competence in the field.

• EdPlace's LEARNEY-AI: Need-driven AI-based adaptive online LEArning jouRNEY

  EdPlace is a 2021 BETT-Award-winning company on a mission to transform the learning outcomes of +1 million pupils by 2030\. EdPlace wants to use its unique proprietary dataset of over 250k pupil attainment records and p...

  Funded by: Innovate UK

  Lead research organisation: EDPLACE LIMITED

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project focuses on using AI to assist teachers and parents in assessing, planning, and delivering interventions to maximize student attainment, directly addressing the question.

• The NEXTCENTURY Algorithm led Adaptive Learning Platform

  UK teachers are facing immense pressure to increase learner performance within the bound or current austerity funding levels and rising demand from growing class sizes. We are Century-Tech Limited and we believe that our...

  Funded by: Innovate UK

  Lead research organisation: CENTURY-TECH LIMITED

• Augmented Intelligence for Pedagogically Sustained Training and Education

  AUGMENTOR aims to develop a novel pedagogical framework that promotes both basic skills and 21st century competencies by integrating emerging technologies. This framework will be supported by an open access AI-boosted to...

  Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  Lead research organisation: MISSION-X LTD

• Enhancing teacher agency with technology: Creating an ecological model through a place-based study of teaching and learning

  Our research investigates teacher agency in the use of technology for teaching and learning. Teacher agency means the capacity of teachers and the actions they take. Educational technology (EdTech) encompasses resources ...

  Funded by: ESRC

  Lead research organisation: University of East Anglia

• Building community knowledge about learning and teaching through technology

  Education is changing. In response to demand for more and better education - more people to higher levels of attainment - the institutions that offer vocational and higher education are having to find ways of doing this ...

  Funded by: ESRC

  Lead research organisation: University College London

• EEF ESRC Technology Enhanced Learning Academic Impact Placement

  I will investigate ways to ensure that existing and future evidence, produced by both the Education Endowment Foundation and external partners, achieves the maximum possible impact in the shortest possible time. The work...

  Funded by: ESRC

  Lead research organisation: University of York