Artificial Intelligence for all

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of education, particularly in the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Educational institutions have shifted towards distance learning, heavily relying on new technologies. This has led to an increased demand for digital skills and training. In this regard, we gathered information from two publications of the European Commission's 'White Paper on Artificial Intelligence', 'A European strategy for data', and the 'Index of Readiness for Digital Lifelong Learning' created by CEPS. The first two discussed how AI and data will transform societal and economic systems. The 'Index of Readiness for Digital Lifelong Learning' revealed disparities in the degrees of readiness for the digital transition among the five countries involved in the project. Those inputs were considered crucial in the project construction phase, guiding the definition of the needs that the project would address, which were: • Raising the awareness about AI's impact on learning; • integrate AI-based methods in teaching and • providing learners with personalized paths to enhance digital skills.

We wanted to enhance the use of digital technologies in the field of teaching and learning and increase the awareness of the multiple options offered by A.I. based systems. Our aim was to help teachers and trainers to better monitor digital skills of students and trainees by achieving the following accomplishments: - Provide an innovative practice of AI-assisted analysis of the results of basic digital skills self-assessments, where the AI would help operators in C-VET education sector in the definition of personalized individual training courses; - Create a collaborative practice at EU level for the continuous training of the AI and for the collection of the data required for this purpose. By doing so, the project could also: - set the ground for automating the digital skills assessment procedures in an expanding series of cases, and transforming them into AI-assisted self-assessment procedures and - extend the method to other sectors other than C-VET, as adults’ education, or primary schools. - extend this experience to SMEs workers and trainers helping SME’s to keep track of the digital skills of their staff and using AI based systems to improve them.