Press release Innovative projects from China and Finland to receive UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for enhancing learning through Artificial Intelligence 06/04/2021 Share this article The 2020 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education will be awarded to the “One College Student Per Village” programme from the People’s Republic of China and the collaborative education platform “ViLLE“ from Finland. Each laureate will be awarded $25,000 for their use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance the continuity and quality of learning. Through the 2020 edition of the Prize, UNESCO encourages the use of inclusive and human-centered AI applications to support the continuity of quality learning as schooling in many parts of the world is disrupted by COVID-19. Since the early stages of the pandemic, countries around the world have been introducing distance-learning solutions drawing on various technologies. Nevertheless, the disruption in schooling has exacerbated a pre-existing learning crisis and caused a massive new loss in learning.
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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 :
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Each year the Prize has a specific theme to be taken into account by nomination proposals. Theme 2020: The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance the continuity and quality of learning Technology innovations fuelled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) have the potential to locate and reach excluded and marginalized groups and provide relevant learning programmes for learners who are in crises and emergencies; accurately analyse difficulties faced by students studying in a language other than their mother tongue and facilitate the learning of foreign languages; and facilitate cost-efficient access to quality learning opportunities for large numbers of learners with physical and cognitive disabilities. Moreover, they can support teachers with a better diagnosis of learning problems and personally adaptive feedback to improve pedagogical responses.