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With increasing interest in AI and education, the Education 4.0 Alliance sought to understand the current state and future promises of the technology for education. The latest report – Shaping the Future of Learning: The Role of AI in Education 4.0 – shows four key promises that have emerged for AI to enable Education 4.0:
AI tools can be a catalyst for the transformation of our education systems but only with a commitment to a shared vision for equitable holistic education that gives all children the opportunity to thrive. To ensure AI benefits all students, including the most marginalized, we recommend being mindful of the following principles:
Education access, equity and quality must be improved to solve the global education crisis – 72 million children of primary education age are not in school. Education today is in crisis. Even before the coronavirus pandemic struck, in many parts of the world, children who should be in school aren’t; for those who are, their schools often ...
As a result, education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platforms. Research suggests that online learning has been shown to increase retention of information, and take less time, meaning the changes coronavirus have caused might be here to stay.
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This means racial achievement gaps – a key way of monitoring whether all students have access to a good education – in the country are narrowing, research by Stanford University shows. But while the trend suggests progress is being made in improving racial educational disparities, it doesn’t show the full picture.
COVID-19 continues to disrupt schoolchildren’s right to a quality education. In March 2021, schools in 57 countries were still closed, according to the World Bank. Deloitte launched the WorldClass Education Challenge on the World Economic Forum's UpLink platform to search for innovators who are bridging gaps in learning and access.
However, if we look closely, these measures do not address the real problems facing higher education. In most countries, higher education is inaccessible to the socio-economically underprivileged, certifies knowledge rather than nurtures learning, and focuses on easily-outdated knowledge. In brief, it is failing on both counts of quality and ...
What are the new pathways to advancing the content and delivery of education, skills and training for the students and workers of the new economy? The COVID-19 crisis has caused a seismic shift in the world of work, with profound implications on education and skills agendas. There is intense demand for technology-based solutions, with digital learning remaining as a fundamental part of the ...
A KPMG assessment showed that India is the second largest market for online education after the US. With conducive policies and initiatives of the Government of India, such as the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and over 5000 EdTech start-ups across the learning lifecycle, the current education environment is potent for digital transformation.