2021-04-11 11:35:52 GMT2021-04-11 19:35:52(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HELSINKI, April 11 (Xinhua) Collaborative online education platform ViLLE, which won the 2020 edition of UNESCO s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Education Prize on Tuesday, aims to help promote education amid the COVID-19 pandemic, said the platform s developer.
The platform has been designed to help decrease the global learning debt caused by the pandemic, and ease teachers workload, Mikko-Jussi Laakso, director of the Center for Learning Analytics at the University of Turku in Finland, which developed the platform, told Xinhua recently.
According to Laakso, the platform, which is currently used by half of Finnish schools and in 40 countries and regions across the world, was first launched in 2010. An advanced artificial intelligence (AI) engine was introduced in the platform last year, enabling it to offer a personalized set of exercises based on students performance and prov
Innovative projects from China and Finland to receive UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for enhancing learning through Artificial Intelligence
indiaeducationdiary.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiaeducationdiary.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Chinese program wins UNESCO s ICT in education prize
shanghaisun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shanghaisun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
7 avril 2021
Each year, the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize, supported by UNESCO and the Kingdom of Bahrain, rewards the best technological innovations to improve children’s education. For the 2020 edition, the Chinese programme “One College Student Per Village” and the Finnish collaborative education platform “ViLLE” are the two winners of the prize.
The Chinese program and the Finnish platform have one thing in common: both use artificial intelligence to improve the quality of a child’s learning and keep him or her in educational continuity. An international jury of experts composed of five international members, recognized in the field of information and communication technologies but also in the field of education, deliberated at length to award the prize. The jury was composed of :