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.
If you would like to discuss previous, ongoing or potential research into any of the areas in this document, please contact research.engagement@education.gov.uk.
Warning of a global "learning crisis" in education, the World Bank recently claimed that without learning, education will fail to deliver on its promise to eliminate extreme poverty and create opportunity and p...
Funded by: FLF
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
The project specifically addresses the implications of embedding AI systems in education settings and explores the social, political, economic, pedagogical, and ethical aspects.
Recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) have the potential to transform education, from reactive tweaks in assessment practices to fundamental philosophical debates about what we should value in the...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
The project specifically focuses on embedding responsible AI in the school system to address issues of accountability, accuracy, and inclusion, involving young people in the process.
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
The project focuses on using AI to augment teaching capacity in schools, which partially addresses the question of implementing AI in education settings without widening inequalities.