Discovery Space: An AI-Enhanced Classroom for Deeper Learning in STEM

Discovery Space, based on rooted research in the field and long-lasting experience employing ICT-based innovations in education, proposes the development of a roadmap for the AI-Enhanced Classroom for Deeper Learning in STEM.

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Description

The Discovery Space project started in January 2023 and will have a duration of three years. The project starts with a foresight research exercise to increase the understanding of the potential, opportunities, barriers, accessibility issues and risks of using emerging technologies (AI-enabled assessment systems combined with AR/VR interfaces) for STEM teaching, considering at the same time a framework for the sustainable digitisation of education.

 

The project will design an Exploratory Learning Environment (Discovery Space) to facilitate students’ inquiry and problem-solving skills while they are working with virtual and remote labs. This will be enabled with AI-driven lifelong learning companions to provide support and guidance and with VR/AR interfaces to enhance the learning experience, to facilitate collaboration and problem solving. It will also provide Good Practices of Scenarios and pilots to equip teachers and learners with the skills necessary for the use of technology in creative, critical and inclusive ways as well as to develop an adequate Teacher Training Academy in relation with the practices in the AI-Enhanced Classroom

 

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

 

Basic information

Coordinator

University of Bayreuth, https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/

Partners

• University of Bayreuth
• University of Deusto
• Ellinogermaniki Agogi ​​​
• Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
• LabsLand
• Athens Technology Center
• European Physical Society Association
• NUCLIO – Núcleo Interativo de Astronomia e Inovação em Educação ​​​​​​​

Programme

Erasmus+ (programme-erasmus-plus)

Project Acronym

Target groups

college students, education authorities, general public, policy makers, researchers, teachers, trainee teachers, university students, university lecturers, vocational school students, other

Topic

Astronomy, Applied sciences, Computer science, Electronics, Engineering, Information technology, Maths, Physics, Software engineering, Technology, Education, Other

Start year

2023

End year

2025

Url

https://discoveryspace.eu

Contact person

info@discoveryspace.eu

The project starts with a foresight research exercise to increase the understanding of the potential, opportunities, barriers, accessibility issues and risks of using emerging technologies (AI-enabled assessment systems combined with AR/VR interfaces) for STEM teaching, considering at the same time a framework for the sustainable digitisation of education.

The consortium will implement a foresight process to understand, through consecutive cycles of reflection, what the school and university labs might look like in the next 10-15 years, taking as a focus not “the future” in its entirety, but specifically the intersection between educational needs and technological evolutions. The project will perform analyses of political and financial trade-offs associated with STEM education reforms and ICT-related initiatives in the participating countries and will explore potential business models reflecting also on contextual changes needed to implement such interventions in the different Member States involved.

Discovery Space team has performed an extended study of the field and has a clear and specific proposal on how these technologies could provide solutions to long-lasting problems in education, at school and at university level. In cooperation with key technological partners, valorising on the results of major research that took place the last 10 years in the framework of major initiatives and large stakeholders’ communities, the project team believes that it will maximize the uptake of group-sensitive recommendations in educational policy.

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The project will design an Exploratory Learning Environment (Discovery Space) to facilitate students’ inquiry and problem-solving skills while they are working with virtual and remote labs. This will be enabled with AI-driven lifelong learning companions to provide support and guidance and with VR/AR interfaces to enhance the learning experience, to facilitate collaboration and problem solving. It will also provide Good Practices of Scenarios and pilots to equip teachers and learners with the skills necessary for the use of technology in creative, critical and inclusive ways as well as to develop an adequate Teacher Training Academy in relation with the practices in the AI-Enhanced Classroom.

The designed scenarios will be tested in real-life classrooms, and consequently revisited and finalized as “Plausible scenarios of the STEM classroom of the future” in the light of the findings from the field, and through consultation with the stakeholders in the context of reflection workshops.

The project aims to build a group of teachers – change leaders who are future literate and who will share leading practices and influence policy development. Teachers with specific change management competencies are required to operate successfully as change agents in the pilot sites to facilitate the implementation of the Discovery Space scenarios.

Teaching materials

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