Huang Ronghuai examines four changing educational conceptions, three forms of human–AI collaboration and five initiatives for integrating large AI models into education. Originally published in Academic Frontiers, issue 14, 2024.
On 30 July 2024, the UNESCO Chair on AI in Education hosted an online dialogue on AI literacy, teacher development and inclusive educational opportunities for young people in Africa.
A 2024 special-issue guide brings together nine contributions on computational thinking, programming, curriculum design and classroom practice from CTE-STEM 2024.
Held at Beijing Normal University on 29–30 July 2024, the forum brought together nearly 200 participants to discuss AI literacy, curricula and teaching innovation for young people.
This 2024 historical reference brings together the first 18 “AI + Higher Education” cases selected by the Ministry of Education, covering laboratory teaching, course assistants, cultural innovation, assessment, academic early warning and personalised learning. All original cases and historical figures are retained, together with related links. Descriptions of functions, scale and trial registration refer to the original period.
On 7–8 July 2024, the Maldives regional pre-finals of the Higher Education Track of the 7th Global Competition on Design for Future Education took place at Maldives Polytechnic. Beijing Normal University and the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education jointly organised the event. Local hosts and supporting organisers included Maldives Polytechnic, Maldives National University, Villa College, the Islamic University of Maldives, the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University and the UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Rotime Engineering And Technology Co., Limited provided strong support.
Where is education heading in the intelligent era? Since ChatGPT appeared, the changes and challenges that AI brings to education have been widely debated. Huang Ronghuai, Dean of the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University and Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Cyberlearning and Intelligent Technology, argues that generative AI may overturn the existing education system as a whole. He calls for transforming education with intelligent technologies, strengthening teachers’ and students’ competencies for the intelligent era, jointly exploring and practising digital pedagogy, and developing human–AI collaborative teaching in an orderly manner and in accordance with relevant requirements.
As China works to build a strong education system, how to advance the “AI Plus” initiative has become a major concern for educators. Higher education urgently needs profound changes in its educational philosophy, institutional development, teaching models, learning paradigms and assessment methods to shape a new ecosystem of AI-enhanced higher education.
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2024 opened in Shanghai on 4 July. That afternoon, its Forum on AI and Education took place at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center.
From 26 to 27 June 2024, Professor Ronghuai Huang, Co-Dean of the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University, visited Bangkok, Thailand, by invitation to attend the International Conference on Nation-Building 2024 (ICNB 2024) and other academic activities. He also visited North Bangkok University (NBU) and Siam Business Administration Technological College (SBAC) in northern Bangkok.
