Artificial Intelligence in (Teacher) Education

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The main and general objective of this project is to create a new Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s degree programme that connects education professionals with the rapidly growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education, research and teaching (AITE: Artificial Intelligence in (Teacher) Education). The goal is to develop educators’ professional knowledge and understanding of AI and AI applications in education and educational research, and give them the teaching and research skills to use AI to both innovate education systems and help them better and more effectively meet sustainability goals in education. By doing this, we also aim to increase the employability of the graduates. This focus on educational innovation via effective, competent and critical reflective use of AI solutions includes a focus on sustainable value creation that is practical, ethical, inclusive, and equitable, and alert to issues that arise in the conjoining of human and machine effort in educating both people artificially intelligent (learning) systems and knowledge development in the teaching and learning environment. In this way, it is capitalising on the added value that AI can contribute to pursuing greater individual and collective well-being, while also alerting students to human (individual, social, and cultural) issues and challenges that arise with the expanding role of AI solutions in education, we expect to make a strong contribution to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 4,: Quality Education. Seven higher education institutions from South Korea, Sweden, Estonia, Cyprus and the Netherlands join forces, with a view of setting up the ‘AITE’ programme. The joint higher education institutions bring together expertise needed to deliver the programme, combining knowledge of AI solutions in the field of teaching and educational research. The ambition of the strong partnership is to recruit excellent students from different regions in the world including developing countries.