Building a Collaborative Platform for Enhancing Artificial Intelligence Applications in Education

Description

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many industries, and its applications in education is a rapidly emerging field.• Despite the promising potentials, there remains substantial barriers preventing broader use AI in higher education, such as high upfront financial investment, time-consuming collaboration between educators and software developers, as well as ethical and social concerns.• This project proposes a collaborative platform for enhancing AI applications in education to lower the entry barriers for educators to develop or apply AI tools in higher education.• The proposed platform will consist of educators interested in developing or applying AI tools for education purposes, as well as technical experts experienced in turning ideas(d)- 5 -into usable tools. It serves to establish a collaborative community of educators to foster an ecosystem of AI development and applications in education.• The platform aims to achieve the following objectives:1. Share existing applications of AI across higher education sector in Hong Kong2. Scale up existing AI tools developed by collaborating institutions to enable more users3. Produce online resources to educate users about the AI tools4. Evaluate students’ and teachers’ perceptions toward the use of AI in education by collecting evidence on its benefits and challenges