China Proposes To Introduce AI In Education Sector
China’s Ministry of Education has proposed to promote Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate the country’s education reform by integrating AI into the education system including textbooks and school curricula.
The education ministry released an opinion paper on accelerating the digitalization of education, along with eight other departments. Reportedly, it proposes to deepen the application of large models in education, promote the intelligent upgrading of curricula, textbooks and teaching systems, integrate AI into the whole process of education and teaching.
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The opinion proposed to integrate the development of AI education in primary, secondary, and higher education, with universities, establishing ‘general and specialised’ AI general education courses and several smart courses. The primary and secondary schools are proposed to offer relevant information technology courses and encourage the establishment of specialised AI courses.
Establishment of cloud schools, intelligent manufacturing spaces, and future learning centers, and the creation of a national-level experimental teaching centre of ‘AI + X’ are proposed in the opinion paper.
To develop new forms of teaching organization to promote changes in learning methods, it is important to build a ‘one-step’ digital student community, according to the opinion.
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New Models of human-machine collaborative teaching can be integrated into the education system, so as to achieve large-scale personalised education driven by AI, and improve the efficiency and quality of education and teaching.
