The LEADER-AI Project: LEAarning analytics and AI for personaliseD lEaRning – March 2023
Organizations from five European Union countries – Cyprus, Greece, Estonia, Romania and Portugal – joined forces into one project team and launched the LEADER-AI project. The project aims to address the need for effective Higher Education (HE) digital learning that responds to students’ needs, strengths and skills, through the proper exploitation of advanced technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). LEADER-AI started on 31st Dec 2022 and will run for 24 months. Over the next two years, we will develop and share a range of educational resources for HE faculty and staff, to support them adopt AI-based and data visualization tools for personalized learning in HE.
To promote flexibility and openness in students’ diverse individualities, teaching and academic staff can implement a personalised instructional approach using Artificial Intelligence and data-driven tools. AI-based applications can automatically respond to students’ needs through adaptive and customised teaching and support. The LEADER-AI consortium will provide practical guidelines to be adapted by HE instructors, academics and educational technology practitioners for their teaching and learning activities. The consortium will work within the goals of the Commission’s European Education Area, to improve the digital capacity of Europe’s education system by exploiting the opportunities given by new technologies such as AI (EC, COM, 2020).
Throughout the project work, the partnership will ensure the delivery of the necessary inputs, improvements and solutions by developing and sharing the following major results:
- LEADER-AI Toolkit
- Scenario-based training and piloting
- Interactive eLearning platform and digital resources
Furthermore, the consortium will strongly encourage broad distribution and usage of the LEADER-AI results among relevant HE organisations and staffs providing their expertise and sharing the project results on testing & piloting events, national events and the Final Conference in Cyprus. All these educational resources will be freely available through the project website and accessible through our Facebook and Twitter pages.