OECD Digital Education Outlook 2021
Pushing the Frontiers with Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Robots
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How might digital technology and notably smart technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI), learning analytics, robotics, and others transform education? This book explores such question. It focuses on how smart technologies currently change education in the classroom and the management of educational organisations and systems. The book delves into beneficial uses of smart technologies such as learning personalisation, supporting students with special learning needs, and blockchain diploma credentialing. It also considers challenges and areas for further research. The findings offer pathways for teachers, policy makers, and educational institutions to digitalise education while optimising equity and inclusivity.
Also available in: French
Early warning systems and indicators of dropping out of upper secondary school: the emerging role of digital technologies
This chapter discusses the literature and practice on emerging technologies to predict and prevent dropping out of upper secondary school. First, it presents the current research on early warning systems and early warning indicators and discusses the accuracy of predictors of dropout. It shows the value of such research, including a typology of dropout profiles. Second, it provides an overview of current emerging digital methodologies from pattern analytics, data science, big data analytics, learning analytics, and machine learning as applied to identifying accurate predictors of dropping out. The conclusion looks to the future of early warning systems and indicators, both from a research and policy perspective, calling for the need for open access algorithms and code for early warning systems and indicators research and practice, and for the inclusion of the community in their design and application, proposing a framework of “Four A’s of Early Warning Indicators” so that they are Accurate, Accessible, Actionable and Accountable.
Also available in: French
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