UNESCO launched its AI competency frameworks for teachers and students during Digital Learning Week 2024. Building on work including the 2019 Beijing Consensus on Artificial Intelligence and Education, they respond to AI’s implications for educational practice and human capabilities.
A September 2024 report on China’s education reforms, covering university programmes, student well-being, digital education and AI-supported evaluation and decision-making.
A historical overview of the 2024 Summit of the Future: sustainable development, peace and security, digital cooperation, young people, global governance and climate action.
Huang Ronghuai discusses collaborative teaching, learning and decision-making, together with competencies, school product approval, educational standards and ethics. Historical commentary first carried by the Chair on 22 September 2024.
A 2024 report on three questions: how digital technology can support quality education, how education can address AI-related challenges, and how teachers can strengthen their technological capabilities.
On 18 August 2024, during the Global Smart Education Conference opening and plenary session, Huang Ronghuai, Co-Dean of BNU’s Smart Learning Institute, and Zhan Tao, Director of UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE), launched “Global Understanding of Smart Education in the Context of Digital Transformation” on behalf of the Global Smart Education Network (GSENet).
The Global Smart Education Conference 2024 opened in Beijing on 18 August under the theme “Educational Transformation & International Understanding”. Experts, scholars and practising teachers from education, technology and business discussed digital strategies, pathways and challenges, alongside new theories, technologies, perspectives and results. The opening report recorded more than 400 invited participants from China and abroad and over 1,500 on-site delegates; these overlapping categories should not be added together.
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 21 June, local time, China’s Ministry of Education and France’s Ministry of Higher Education and Research jointly held the inaugural Sino-French Education Development Forum in Paris. Chinese Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng and French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau attended and delivered addresses.
Historical article: the June 2024 report and the author’s complete text are retained. Education statistics, teacher numbers and cooperation described below refer to that period.
