ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION (AIED)
Recently, UNESCO launched ‘State of the Education Report for India, 2022: Artificial Intelligence in Education’.
Key highlights of the report-
Key highlights of the report
• India’s current status in AI -
India has the highest relative AI skill penetration rate (3.09 times the global average).
• AI in Education systems have contributed to reach US$7.8 billion by 2025 at a rate of 20.2% CAGR.
Challenges in the adoption of AI in the education sector
• Lack of comprehensive policy for integrating AI in the education sector.
• Inadequate States capacity and human resources availability to cope with the speed of innovation in the field of AI.
• Low expenditure on Education which is under 3.5% of GDP compared to a global average of 4.2%.
• Digital divide like 54% of the population in India does not use the internet.
• Ethics and transparency like possibility of
algorithmic biases, digital or data colonialism
(controlling of data by a few countries), misuse of data generated.
Initiatives taken by India promote research in Al-
● Responsible AI for Youth: It was created by the Ministry of Electronics & IT in collaboration with Intel India and the support of the Ministry of Education.
o It is open to school students studying in classes 8-12 across India to foster a deeper understanding of AI-tech and encourage youngsters to become human-centric designers.
● US-India Artificial Intelligence Initiative: To foster AI innovation by sharing ideas and experiences, identifying new opportunities in research and development, and bilateral collaboration.
● National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mission: It was launched by the Prime Minister's Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).
It works with extensive academia-industry interactions on developing core research capability at the national level including international collaborations.
● AI in Schools: As part of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, AI will now be a part of the Indian school curriculum.
Way ahead
• A comprehensive State policy to make India world’s centre of AI innovation to have robust regulatory
framework to prevent data misuses, ensure privacy and transparency.
• Harness basic technologies in a smart way like providing AI-powered learning tools via short messaging service (SMS).
• Intelligent tutoring systems, a computer-based learning system that uses AI to track student progress,
and help them learn new skills.
• Public-private partnership to strengthen AI training and research, facilitate sharing of material and
financial resources, aligning educational programmes with labour market needs.
• Data anonymity and promoting algorithmic fairness by data cleaning and editing before entering them
to AI.
conclusion -
AI is a dual-use technology. A variety of AI-powered education tools offer opportunities across many aspects of education such as formal and informal learning, teaching, evaluation, etc. However, it also entails challenges related to AI use and management which needs to be addressed first, both at the global level and at the national level in India.
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