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China's First AI Application Guidelines in the Field of Education
With the continuous development of Artificial Intelligence (AI)technology, it is rapidly integrating into our lives and unlocking new possibilities in education and work. In the previous Newsletter #16, we discussed the importance of AI ethics, offering suggestions for the responsible use of AI in education, research, and societal development, while emphasizing that technological advancements should align with ethical standards. In Newsletter #17, we introduced how to optimize online course design through Quality Management (QM) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), providing a series of practical guidelines to help teachers enhance the effectiveness and inclusivity of online teaching.
This issue, we explore how AI can transform education across five key areas: Teaching, Learning, Assessment, Education, and Research. Our goal is to harness AI’s potential to drive innovation and position it as a valuable, practical assistant in the classroom, enhancing engagement, deepening understanding, and improving educational outcomes.
To better integrate AI with teaching, we invite you to take a minute to complete our survey and share your thoughts and suggestions! Scan the QR code in the image or click here to participate, and let’s explore how we can seamlessly incorporate AI into classrooms to enhance the teaching and learning experience together!
Background
The application of AI in education faces numerous challenges, including technical bottlenecks, value orientation, and ethical issues. Despite the rapid development of AI, these obstacles hinder its effective integration into educational settings. To address these challenges and promote the scientific and regulated application of AI in education, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission entrusted the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences to spearhead the development and release of the "Guidelines for AI Application in Education in Beijing (2024)" (hereinafter referred to as the "AI Application Guidelines").
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This is the first AI application guideline in the field of education in China, commissioned and released by an educational administrative authority. It aims to regulate the application of AI in education, provide practical guidance for schools, teachers, and students, and support the integration of AI into educational practices.
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Guidelines for Application Scenarios
Based on the guidelines, With the continuous iteration and optimization of AI , schools should further integrate and innovate application scenarios, actively exploring new educational contexts in teaching, school governance, and other areas to adapt to future developments. This will drive a systematic leap forward in school development empowered by AI.
The "AI Application Guidelines" play a crucial role in the application of AI in teaching scenarios, specifically reflected in the following aspects:
1.Empowering Teaching with Intelligence
Providing teachers with intelligent assistants to promote the integrated implementation of interdisciplinary thematic learning and teaching evaluation. This enhances educational quality, improves efficiency, and reduces workload.
2.Empowering Learning with Intelligence
Leveraging AI to support personalized learning paths for students, integrating online and offline, real and virtual, as well as human and AI-agent "blended learning." This approach, centered around the "student-centered" concept, enhances self-directed learning, fosters inquiry and innovative thinking, and holistically improves comprehensive skills and complex problem-solving abilities. It also incorporates language learning, gamified learning, project-based learning, situational learning, intelligent tutoring systems, and research assistance tools, all designed to provide a more tailored and engaging educational experience.
3.Empowering Assessment with Intelligence
Using AI to establish a diversified evaluation system for teachers and students. Through data collection and intelligent analysis, it generates comprehensive student profiles, provides dynamic feedback, and strengthens both process and outcome evaluations. This enables objective and timely assessments, fostering students' holistic development.
4.Empowering Education with Intelligence
Utilizing AI technology to innovate educational approaches, optimizing resources and tools to enhance educational effectiveness. This approach focuses on improving students' physical fitness, cultivating their aesthetic taste and cultural literacy, deepening their understanding of the value of labor, and guiding them to develop lifelong learning habits, promoting their overall and healthy growth.
5.Empowering Research with Intelligence
Harnessing AI to build an intelligent teaching and research ecosystem, supporting "collaborative intelligence for collective progress" and "personalized innovative professional development." This aids teachers' professional growth and provides tools and perspectives for solving complex problems and exploring uncharted areas.
Note: The above scenarios will be continuously optimized, iterated, and dynamically updated in line with advancements in artificial intelligence technology and innovations in educational.
Source: Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI).
Teachers can start with the above "five areas" to grasp the basic knowledge of AI and promote its application in educational scenarios, enabling large-scale, personalized teaching and fostering innovative, individualized instruction.
We would love to invite faculty members to join us at CTL in exploring the guidelines and discussing your practical applications in the classroom.
We’ll be uploading the Full translation of the guidelines to our website soon. Be sure to check it out here:https://www.wku.edu.cn/en/ctl
CTL's Event Update: Instructional Skills Workshop 2025 Spring
Missed the chance to join the ISW in 2024? Don’t worry—Instructional Skills Workshop 2025 Spring are here! Mark your calendars and seize this opportunity to enhance your teaching skills.
The Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) was founded in 1979 in British Columbia, Canada. ISW is a 4-day workshop designed to enhance the teaching effectiveness of educators. The workshop encourages reflection and examination of individual teaching practices. Participants design and deliver three “mini-lessons” and receive verbal, written, and video feedback from their peers. Through immersive experiential learning methods, participants gain insights into teaching theories and practices, select and write learning objectives with relevant teaching plans, develop techniques to engage students actively in the classroom, and receive recommendations for assessing learning.
You can register through either of these two options: scan the QR code or click here.
Stay tuned for more details! For additional information and registration, please visit our website：https://www.wku.edu.cn/en/ctl/isw
We look forward to seeing you there!
Resources:
Beijing Artificial Intelligence Application Guide for Education (2024)：https://jw.beijing.gov.cn/xxgk/2024zcwj/2024qtwj/202410/t20241028_3929498.html
CTL's Newsletter#16：Recommendations on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence：https://www.wku.edu.cn/en/node/5075
CTL's Newsletter#17：From QM to UDL: A Practical Guide to Enhancing Online Course Design：https://www.wku.edu.cn/en/node/5104
CTL's newsletter#8: Report Interpretation | Guidance for generative AI in education and research from UNESCO：https://www.wku.edu.cn/en/node/4803
Recommended for Bookmarking | The Nation's First Guide to AI Applications in Education：
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/XcDGJpR2vfJ9jh69t2TYgA
Author: Enlei (Cecilia) Chen
Chief Editor: Yirui (Sandy) Jiang