What are the most effective approaches to upskilling the education workforce to use AI well? What impact could this have on productivity?
Background
Digital technologies, and AI in particular, will provide great opportunities – and potentially challenges – for teaching and school management. We want to make sure that we have a strong evidence base as these technologies grow in use.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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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
Why might this be relevant?
The project explores AI as a tool to preserve and interact with the knowledge and experience of industry experts in education, addressing the upskilling of the education workforce.
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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
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on using AI to create digital teachers and tailored lessons to augment teaching capacity, partially addressing the upskilling of the education workforce.
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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
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to develop a pedagogical framework integrating AI for personalized learning profiles, partially addressing the upskilling of the education workforce.