Smart Learning Institute

Capacity Building: develop capacities of education managers and teachers on ethical and effective use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education through the provision of training platforms and training programmes, establishment of training centers, pilot settings of typical scenarios of AI in education as well as organization of training of trainers or master teachers in the target least developed countries with Sub-Saharan countries as priority;

Policy Dialogue: facilitate international policy dialogue with thematic focuses on AI in education and leveraging AI to enable digital transformation of education through organizing or supporting the organization of annual international forums on AI and education annually, building and maintaining an inter-sectoral community of policymakers, researchers, practitioners in the field of AI in education;

Technological Innovation: facilitate the technological innovation on trustworthy, safe, transparent, explainable, and robust AI algorithms, AI tools, and evidence-based effective models of using AI in education through supporting interdisciplinary projects and knowledge sharing among different institutions and countries;

Talents and Courses: promote the development of AI talents and high-level graduates of higher education institutions through building a database of high-quality courses, facilitating the development of programmes, and exchanges of scholars, and;

Cooperation with Global Partners: cooperate closely and actively with concerned entities of UNESCO, and existing Chairs and Networks of UNESCO on relevant programmes and activities.

Digital Resources Hub for AIED: In line with SDG4, promote the popularization and equity of AI in education, cultivate AI talents, and facilitate the innovation of artificial intelligence in education. Serves the AI education practitioners and K12 students and teachers.

Teachers CoP on AIED: provide artificial intelligence and application skills training for primary and secondary school teachers in Southeast Asian countries; conduct training of Trainers for Teacher Capacity, and building on Artificial Intelligence and Application in the Sub-Saharan African Countries; Launch a collection campaign for outstanding youth achievements in AI in more than 10 countries worldwide and release the case set; Establish the teacher community of practice, and organize winter and summer camps providing a platform for young people around the world to communicate, share, and learn from each other.

Cooperate with international institutions, resource platform universities, primary and secondary schools to provide AI education resource index services. Design and develop the resource hub.

International Workshops on AIED Social Experiments: the target audience includes practitioners, researchers, policy makers who are interested in investigating the effectiveness and influence of the application of intelligent technologies in education. The target audience will master the knowledge and skills needed to design and conduct social experiment to examine the influence of AI application on education. Prepare learning resources for the workshop, collaborate national experiment bases for intelligent society governance in China and deliver the workshop. Develop learning handouts, workshops, and international community of inquiry.

International joint research on Collaborative Teaching with Educational Robots for Multilingual Learning and Inclusive Education: analyze influential academic articles presenting state-of-the-art of educational robot researches and identify thematic topics where educational robotics have been applied to facilitate teaching and learning. Utilize AIGC technology to facilitate multilingual study and inclusive education; Focus on collaborative teaching between human and machine in different scenarios.

Visiting Scholars & Cooperation with Global Partners: promote the AI talents cultivation and exchange of international scholars in AI and education by launching the talents cultivation project. Visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows, focusing on AIED related topics, will be recruited worldwide. organize the Summer School for middle school students from all over the world. Students will be selected to come to China to participate in the summer school of design, computing and innovative thinking.