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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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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 the increased accessibility of generative AI in education and involves young people in co-creating responsible AI in the school system.
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
While the project explores AI in education, it focuses more on preserving and interacting with industry experts rather than addressing the influence of generative AI on HE and FE providers and students.
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 teacher capacity and provide personalized, engaging learning experiences, directly addressing the question.