AI and the Digitalisation of Education: Challenges and Opportunities

Since the release of Chat GPT in November 2022, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved to the forefront of attention of stakeholders working in education policy and practice. While many are enthusiastic about the potential opportunities AI offers for improving education systems and classroom practice, others are wary of the bias that AI represents, the potential of AI to contribute to an ever-widening inequality gap, and its ethical pitfalls. The use of AI goes hand in hand with the accelerating digitalisation of education and the promotion of personalized learning.

The blog series is curated and edited by Maren Elfert, NORRAG blog editor. We welcome blog contributions from education practitioners, policy makers and researcher-practitioners. In particular, we welcome contributions from experts whose perspectives may be under-represented in international education policy discussions, including from the Global South.

The series invites empirically-grounded and critical contributions on the challenges and opportunities of AI and the digitisation of education, including the following themes: 

• Datafication, surveillance, ethical challenges and citizenship
• Governance of AI, privatisation and “multistakeholderism”
• Diversity and digital divides 
• Technological and AI colonialism and “decolonising technology or AI”
• The right to education, quality, equity and social justice in education
• Government procurement, value creation models, and financialisation

Please refer to the general guidelines for NORRAG blog submissions.

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