The first Advanced Camp on AIGC-Empowered Human–AI Collaborative Teaching took place on 3–4 August 2024. It was organised by the National Engineering Research Center of Cyberlearning and Intelligent Technology at Beijing Normal University, referred to below as CIT.
This 2024 historical reference brings together the first 18 “AI + Higher Education” cases selected by the Ministry of Education, covering laboratory teaching, course assistants, cultural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.
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”.
Full historical research article: originally published in World Education Information, volume 37, issue 4, 2024, by Zhu Lixin, Li Xin and Zhang Xiangling. The five areas of development, five challenges, three sets of recommendations and all 28 references are retained. Country groupings, policies and data reflect the study’s contemporary context.
Historical conference report: this page revisits Croatia’s Printing & Design international conference on 12–13 June 2024. Roles, laboratory development and competition figures retain their contemporary context.
Historical competition report: this page revisits the Central and Eastern European regional selection in Zagreb, Croatia, on 11–13 June 2024. Contemporary roles and subsequent competition plans are retained as history, not a current registration notice.
The Forum on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Education took place at the University of Belgrade on 1 June 2024. Researchers, educators and business representatives from around the world explored educational applications and innovation in robotics and AI. Co-organized by BNU’s Faculty of Education, the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Education and the UNESCO Chair on AI in Education, it focused on educational robots, AI-supported teacher education, and generative AI in education, using dialogue and shared experience to promote inclusion, equity and Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4).
