Capacity Building

This 2024 historical reference brings together the first 18 “AI + Higher Education” cases selected by the Ministry of Education, covering laboratory teaching, course assistants, cultural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.

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.

At the invitation of the International Association of Universities, Professor Huang Ronghuai, UNESCO Chair on AI in Education and Co-Dean of the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University, published a signed article in IAU Horizons entitled “Reshaping Higher Education with Vital Competences in the Intelligent Era”.