Digitalisation is transforming societies, providing new opportunities to improve education in the classroom, enhance the management of education systems, but also to consider innovative models of delivery. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated and cast a spotlight on the importance of digitalisation. Countries’ current digital learning infrastructure has to be reconsidered, including teachers’ ability to use it efficiently. The conference will highlight advances in educational technology based on artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and blockchain. It will also start a dialogue between policy makers, education stakeholders, the global education industry and experts in the field, with a view to sharing knowledge and information, but also to start thinking of related policy issues, international opportunities for collaboration, and strategies about embracing and driving the digital transformation in education.

At the start of the conference the OECD's new report ‘Digital Education Outlook: Pushing the Frontiers with AI, Blockchain, and Robots’ will be launched. The presentation provides an overview of where the world stands in the digitalisation of education in terms of solutions and challenges, and what we may expect from the future.

The application of new technologies for teaching and learning have far outstripped our evidence-based knowledge of what digital innovations and methodologies enable learning, why, and for whom. This session takes up this topic with leading scholars in digital education and technological innovation worldwide.

The digitalisation of education is high on the agenda of many countries worldwide. Policy makers take a keen interest in the opportunities that digital technologies offer for education, and at the same time attempt to tackle the societal challenges that derive from it. In the policy discussions on Tuesday and Wednesday, policy experts from different OECD countries elaborate on their work to explain the most urgent matters in their country.

The industry for educational technology (EdTech) has been on the rise for a longer time and experienced a boom during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the EdTech sessions on Tuesday and Thursday, entrepreneurs from EdTech companies give their say on what is currently happening in the market and what is important in their eyes to establish a valuable digital transformation in education.

This session will allow to understand better the promises and limitations of artificial intelligence, as well as what the big questions of the field currently are. An interview with Melanie Mitchell, University of Santa Fe.

The digitalisation of education is high on the agenda of many countries worldwide. Policy makers take a keen interest in the opportunities that digital technologies offer for education, and at the same time attempt to tackle the societal challenges that derive from it. In the policy discussions on Tuesday and Wednesday, policy experts from different OECD countries elaborate on their work to explain the most urgent matters in their country.

Social robots offer benefits to education that computer-based solutions do not. Their physical nature lends them to have real-world interactions with learners, and their increased social presence enhances learning outcomes. This session provides more insight on these opportunities, as well as the challenges to rolling out social robots in classrooms.

This session contains a panel discussion with three (former) education ministers that are known for their keen interest and engagement in the digital agenda in education.

This session will allow to discuss the big questions of digital technology in education with the scientific advisor and co-author of the publication “Digital Education Outlook”.

Cutting edge technologies aim to support the development of children with special learning needs, and digital solutions for early warning systems for school dropout keep improving. This session elaborates on what digital technologies can do for equity in schools and inclusive education.

What does the classroom of the future look like? And what can data do for teachers? This session provides more insight on these questions and the possibilities of classroom analytics for real-time teacher support and student engagement.

Educational games have a strong potential to improve the quality of testing, and will allow us to assess complex skills in the future. In this session participants learn more about how educational games can supplement traditional tests, and what their specific advantages are.

In this session, teachers will talk about how digital technology can make music education more creative and engaging for students (and themselves).

In this session, teachers will share their experiences with the use of digital technologies in different educational contexts and their views on the future of technology for education.

The OECD is involved in several interesting projects with regard to the rise of digital technologies. Experts from different OECD directorates discuss their work and the importance of pushing the digital agenda forth.

The industry for educational technology (EdTech) has been on the rise for a longer time and experienced a boom during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the EdTech sessions on Tuesday and Thursday, entrepreneurs from EdTech companies give their say on what is currently happening in the market and what is important in their eyes to establish a valuable digital transformation in education.

This session focuses on the opportunities and challenges of AI and learning analytics for specifically higher education. How can educational institutions successfully integrate learning analytics in their organisational change approach?

This session contains a dialogue between high representatives of the OECD, UNESCO, World Bank, and European Union about the future of learning and the importance of digitalisation.

Digital technologies hold a promise for the future of personalised learning, thanks to adaptive learning and intelligent tutoring systems, educational games and other applications, as well as for improving student engagement and social and emotional learning skills. This session goes in-depth on the opportunities that technologies offer in this field.

During the lockdown and the closing of schools, teachers, governments and other stakeholders worked hard to guarantee the continuity of education. This session brings together interesting lessons from the pandemic related to technology, including the use of many low tech solutions.

This session goes in-depth on the use of blockchain in education. Blockchain technology holds a promise to eliminate fraud with credentialing records, and to facilitate the movement of students and workers between institutions and geographies, as well as to empower individuals by giving them increased control over their own data.

Education has seen a remarkable increase in the use of digital technologies and data. Investments in software can prove rewarding for schools, but educators still face the challenge of dealing with too many different systems. How can we create coherent digital ecosystems for education? How can policy makers, educators and EdTech companies work together to make this happen? Watch this webinar to learn more about existing collaborations worldwide, and to understand what education can look like when countries adopt standards and policies for interoperability. Time Wednesday 16 February, 1 PM CET. Speakers Beth Havinga, managing director European Edtech Alliance, founder Connect Edtech Hideto Harashima, professor Maebashi Institute of Technology, founder Moodle Association Japan third speaker to be confirmed.

Dans le cadre du projet « Données Intelligentes et Nouvelles Technologies en Éducation », l’OCDE a entamé en 2020 un dialogue avec ses pays membres au sujet de leurs priorités politiques en ce qui concerne la transformation technologique et la numérisation de l’éducation. Ces rencontres offrent aux pays une plateforme d’échange et de comparaison qui leur permet d’identifier et de discuter des principales questions liées à l’accès et à l’utilisation de nouvelles technologies en éducation, de partager leurs expériences locales et nationales et d’apprendre de celles des autres pays. L’objectif de ce webinaire public est de présenter le plan d’action numérique mis en place par la province du Québec, au Canada. Il s’agit de comprendre le contexte québécois et d’étudier le panel de mesures que contient le plan, mais surtout de décrire sa mise en œuvre et d’en faire ressortir son originalité. En effet, alors que les stratégies numériques préconisées sont finalement assez proches d’un plan national (ou provincial) à un autre, il en va souvent différemment de leur déploiement sur le terrain. C’est pourquoi le Québec a accordé une grande importance à la mission des gestionnaires d’éducation et à la formation des directeurs d’établissement, afin de les accompagner au mieux dans la transition numérique en cours.

The global digital transformation continues to shape the educational landscape, offering enhanced methods for classroom learning, streamlined education management systems, and innovative delivery models. In the wake of the rapid adjustments necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing evolution in digital education has become even more significant. As we venture into 2024, reassessing and strengthening digital learning infrastructure is paramount, including equipping educators with the necessary tools and skills to manage the profound disruption of AI. This online conference will be the occasion to discuss the current state of the art and discuss some of the findings of the OECD Digital Education Outlook 2023: Towards an effective digital ecosystem and another related report: Country digital education ecosystems and governance: a companion to Digital Education Outlook 2023. This year’s OECD Digital Education Conference will spotlight the role of artificial intelligence (AI), digital management and learning platforms in education. Hosted as a fully virtual event, the conference is designed to foster insightful conversations among policy makers, education stakeholders, experts, and industry developers. The conference aims to help participants formulate their vision for digitally transformed education, apprehending both opportunities and challenges. It will also be an occasion to discuss countries' policies and guidance about digital education -- as well as the OECD and EI opportunities, guidelines and guardrails for equitable and effective AI in education.

This session will launch the Digital Education Outlook 2023 with a speech by OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, a discussion with Estonian Minister of Education Kristina Kallas and a general discussion about possible visions for the digital transformation of the education sector, drawing on the ongoing trends in other sectors of society.

How can we use digital technologies to better support student learning of 21st century skills? The OECD’s Platform for Innovative Learning Assessments (PILA) is a new open-source platform that offers teachers and students engaging, interactive learning material with built-in assessment. This session, marking the launch of PILA, gathers experts in educational technology design, learning sciences, pedagogy, and digital education policy to discuss the opportunities and challenges of harnessing technology for evidence-based teaching and learning. PILA will be made freely available during the session and there will also be a live demonstration of the platform.

This session will be conversational in nature and focus on two roundtables. The first one will discuss the "Opportunities, Guidelines and Guardrails for effective and equitable use of AI in education" that were developed and published by the OECD Secretariat and Education International. The second will bring together policy makers, teachers and researchers to discuss some of the findings of the Digital Education Outlook 2023.

The emergence of AI in education raises new equity and data protection issues. This session will discuss the research about algorithmic bias and present the related chapter of the Digital Education Outlook 2023, and discuss how this relates with other imperatives such as privacy and data protection.

Teachers (and other educational staff) are crucial for any digital transformation to happen. They need to have the confidence and competence to use digital tools and resources as part of their teaching. This session will discuss what different countries do to incentivise and support teachers to acquire the pedagogical and digital competences to do so.

The education technology (Edtech) industry is a key actor for the digital transformation. They have the competences to develop and market new digital tools. It is thus crucial for governments and public authorities to work with them to reach important goals such as interoperability between Edtech solutions or ensure the effectiveness of education tools and resources. The discussion will involve a variety actors representing or working with the Edtech industry.

This session will explore the challenges and opportunities to advance digital transformation in education across the Digital Transformation Collaborative’s (DTC) 5 Cs framework: coordination, cost, connectivity, capacity, and content. Grounded in the example of Egypt, a country with a strong vision for leveraging digital technology to achieve their education sector goals, panelists will reflect on the importance of multistakeholder partnerships to realize scalable, sustainable plans for digital transformation in education. Galvanized during the Transforming Education Summit, the DTC's 30 partners — representing international organizations, technology providers, telecoms, NGOs, funds and foundations — have come together to collaboratively steer digital transformation in education towards equity, quality and sustainability. The DTC Secretariat sits within UNESCO’s Global Education Coalition. As the lead agency for SDG 4, UNESCO is responsible for ensuring that DTC actions drive human-centered digital transformation that supports states to deliver on every person’s right to education.

Most countries have now embarked on the digitalisation of some of their national and central assessments, in particular those that carry low stakes for individual students. However, only a few countries have harnessed the potential of digital affordances, including adaptive features, innovative methods for assessing broader ranges of subjects, automatic grading and transfer of grades to other system management tools. This session will explore where countries stand on the digitalisation of their assessment ecosystem, between digital transition and digital transformation.

Countries are at different stages of shaping their digital education ecosystem. This session will explore how different countries are trying to establish a "comprehensive" infrastructure and governance for their digital education, with different models of provision/procurement of digital tools and resources, of teacher professional development as well as different ways to achieve interoperability and to support the supply of quality digital tools and resources for their education systems. After a presentation of Hungary, the discussion will focus on the different aspects of a comprehensive ecosystem from the perspective of OECD and non-OECD countries.

This session will bring together researchers and developers to discuss different possibles uses of generative AI in education, from the use in the classroom by teachers through to the integration in other AI tools in education that support learners, teachers and administrators.

Most countries have developed a digital strategy, a key step towards a digital transformation. As a way to implement these strategies, countries have often established different models of "support organisations" bringing together a variety of competences that are not commonly available within ministries of education. The session will discuss these different models with a presentation of some case studies and a discussion with a few support organisations.

This session will bring together leaders from different international organisations (OECD, UNESCO, World Bank) to discuss how the digital transformation can play out at the global scale and how countries in the global North and South can work together to make it happen. This will also include a discussion of what short term actions international organisations and fora such as the G20 could undertake together. The session will start with an example from Gujarat (India), showing that digitalisation can help transform education in a variety of contexts.

This session will discuss new models of "innovation labs" that can help develop more responsible and useful AI tools for education. Many attempt to bring together different stakeholders, including educators, and to build a common language. This could allow creating digital tools that are really useful for educators and also for educators to better understand what AI in education entails. After a presentation of the corresponding chapter of the Digital Education Outlook 2023, several labs will discuss their model and their advantages and disadvantages.

16 April 12:30-13:30 CEST As AI tools advance, educators and policymakers are grappling with key questions: can these tools be used to support student’s creative thinking, or do they risk limiting skills and independence? In the lead-up to World Creativity and Innovation Day, this webinar explored whether AI can help learners apply subject knowledge in innovative ways, or if it encourages dependency and superficial engagement. Beyond the classroom, we also considered the ethical, regulatory, and equity implications of AI in education—who benefits, who is left behind, and how can we ensure these tools enhance rather than undermine human creativity and expertise? Speakers included: - Todd Lubart, Professor of Psychology, Université Paris Cité - Kim van Broekhoven, Assistant Professor, Educational Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam - Anil R. Doshi, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, UCL School of Management Moderated by Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, Senior Analyst and Deputy Head of Division, OECD Directorate of Education and Skills

Artificial intelligence is being heralded by many for its transformative potential in education, offering personalised learning experiences and more efficient school administration. But as AI use becomes more widespread, so do concerns about bias. Bias in AI algorithms can perpetuate inequalities, affecting student outcomes and reinforcing societal prejudices. Addressing this AI bias requires a nuanced approach, including ethical guidelines, diverse datasets and rigorous testing. In this webinar, we will discuss some of the ways that education systems can safeguard against the unintended consequences of AI and promote equitable educational practices. Speakers include: Tiera Tanksley, Post Doctoral Fellow in Youth, Technology and Public Policy, UCLA Jeremy Roschelle, Executive Director of Learning Sciences Research at Digital Promise Eleanor Drage, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, Senior Analyst and Deputy Head of Division at the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Moderated by Sasha Ramirez-Hughes, Communication Manager, Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD

16 October 2024 13:00-14:00 CET Many digital tools and resources in the education sector were initially developed for other sectors. As a result, practitioners sometimes struggle to embed them in their professional practice and policy makers find the investment in digital education relatively inefficient. This webinar will explore the need for new institutional models and processes to develop digital tools and resources for education, notably tools that meet a real need in the education community and that can be more easily embedded in educational practices. The Opportunities, guidelines and guardrails for effective and equitable use of AI in education published by the OECD Secretariat and Education International, the global federation of teacher unions, highlight “co-creation” involving teachers and schools as an important practice (guideline #5). In the OECD Digital Education Outlook 2023, Inge Molenaar highlights different “triple (or quadruple) helix” models involving governments, academics, for-profit developers and school practitioners for this multistakeholder cooperation and co-creation to happen. Watch the recording to check out the conversation, moderated by the OECD’s Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, with speakers including: - Inge Molenaar, Director of National Education Lab AI (NOLAI) and Professor at Radbout University, Netherlands; - Axel Jean, Head of Digital Innovation and Applied Research, Ministry of Education, France; - Donatella Solda, Director, Future Education Modena, Italy. The webinar will showcase three different models for co-creation, led by a university, the government and a non-governmental organisation. All the slides are available here below: Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/co-creation-webinar_stephan-vincent-lancrin_16-oct-2024-pdf/272467573 Inge Molenaar: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/inge-molenaar_oecd_webinar-co-creation_nolai-pdf/272467651 Axel Jean: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/axel-jean_innovation-partnership-_oecd-webinar-on-co-creation_16-october-2024-_education_france-pdf/272467791 AND https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/axel-jean_mathematiques_oecd-webinar-on-co-creation_16-october-2024-pdf/272467965

The OECD Digital Education Outlook is the OECD’s flagship publication presenting our latest analysis of emerging digital technologies in education. This 2026 edition synthesises evidence and expert insights to show how generative AI has the potential to transform the quality and effectiveness of learning, as well as the productivity of education systems, provided its associated risks are carefully managed. Its applications include enhancing student learning, supporting teachers’ performance while preserving professional autonomy, and strengthening education systems, as well as institutional and research capacities. At this virtual launch, OECD experts looked at the latest findings on the impact of GenAI in education, explored the benefits and risks of AI tutors and assistants and shared design principles to make these tools effective in classrooms.