SDG-4

SDG-4 Quality Education

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SDG-4

Targets of this Goal

By 2030, it is necessary to achieve the following targets:

Ensure that all kids complete primary and secondary education at no cost, under equality and quality terms.
Ensure equal access to high-quality technical, professional and higher education, including university courses.
Increase the numbers of young people and adults with the necessary competencies to access employment, decent jobs and enterpreneurship.
Eliminate gender disparities and ensure equal access to teaching at all levels.

We can currently advance towards the attainment of this goal:

How does technology contribute to this SDG? See what we propose and tell us what you think

Lessons learnt

We have analyzed the literature and extracted the following ideas on how technologies are favouring this SDG.
See also what we propose and tell us what you think.

L.1

Different digital gamification modalities (serious games, virtual reality, augmented reality apps, games, ...Las diferentes modalidades de juego digital (serious games, inmersion en RV, apps con RA, juegos, ..) allow equal learning and there exist pedagogic guidelines for their use.

L.2

Conversational agents can support teachers in educational and administrative matters, but they can also promote learning in forums, detect bad-intended contents and even decide to speak in a given language that the one envisaged in the programme they are built for.

L.3

Recommender systems allow the application of a personalized education paradigm where both the contents and the speed of delivery are adapted to each student.

L.4

Computer adaptive tests can adapt to response capacity of students and facilitate inclusive education.

L.5

Working predicated on open courses, massive and online courses, has transformed the online education catalogue and enabled ubiquitous learning, having become an optimal tool to meet the educational demands of the 21st century.

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When available, technology supports helping diverse collectives.

L.7

Political measures and partnerships between countries, along with the use of AI, could positively influence the attainment of this goal.

Recommendations

The proposed actions on which we introduce an opinion poll for this SDG, are described below:

Poll for SDG-4

The analyses of interrelationships between emerging technologies & AI, and the possibilities they offer to pursue the SDGs, led us to propose a series of actions and/or potential projects to develop.
Among these recommendations, which one is more important in your opinion?

Give my opinion

R4.1 - AI for personalized learning and inclusive education

R4.2 - Use of virtual/augmented reality techniques and mobile apps to disseminate teaching contents, and support education under different learning styles.

It is recommended the teacher's use of digital technologies such as AR/VR or mobile-learning, in other words, the use of digital teaching technologies around mobile devices for learning anywhere, since they offer different interaction channels and students are able to work with contents in multiple formats, as recommended by the Universal Design approach for Learning to cover different learning styles.

R4.3 - Open and free education with recommended contents to favour lifelong and ubiquitous learning

Many Internet contents are freely accessible, but there exists an added difficulty to find those that would be ideal for a specific learning, whether they are static resources or as part of a MOOC offer, for instance. We postulate the use of AI techniques such as machine learning and fuzzy recommender systems to curate content and offer every student the most suitable learning modality, both private and open, according to their time, level, language or format requirements.

R4.4 - Conversational assistants for academic management and quality evaluation of teaching received

The use of chatbots allows to automate certain types of everyday, repetitive or time-consuming communication processes, at the same time as they support deeper interactions between students and teachers. In a versatile, modern and functional channel to receive student feedback, education instituions generally use printed or online questionnaires of student satisfaction, but this process might become much more attractive and genuine by using chatbots.

R4.5 - Universal use of institutional frameworks that guarantee the treatment of information by any student with equity and security

Learning institutions compile a large amount of academic and learning data that could be analyzed to improve training processes. We propose the use of digital tools that allow these centers to apply AI techniques by providing environments that support measuring, gathering, analyzing and presenting student data, their context and interactions. Thus, this might enable: (1) a better understanding of the learning process; (2) assisted decision-making for resource sharing; (3) the optimization of environments in which learning and teaching occurs; and (4) articulating an ethical use of data.