TEHRAN – The third national event on future faculties will be held in February, highlighting the usage of trendy applied sciences reminiscent of synthetic intelligence (AI) and blended studying in fostering considering expertise and creativity, in addition to collaboration among the many future era of scholars.
Future college and the general public schooling system (the function of instructor and scholar in future faculties, trendy instructing and studying approaches, faculties and college students with particular wants); Future college, a middle for schooling and growth of group (faculties as social establishment for the event of the neighbourhood, college’s interplay with cultural, social, and concrete establishments); Future college and bodily atmosphere (designing inexperienced faculties, using renewable energies and trendy building applied sciences); and Future college, gear, instructional applied sciences (trendy instructional instruments and applied sciences, AI-based studying platforms, digital infrastructures) will be the 4 key matters of the event.
Technology and knowledge-based firms, consulting engineers, universities and analysis facilities, science and expertise parks, professors and college students, and researchers in technical, engineering, humanities, artwork, and psychology fields are among the many principal goal audiences of the event.
‘Iran Digital’ goals to educate AI to 4 million college students
Iran Digital, a national program, goals to educate synthetic intelligence (AI) to 4 million college students freed from cost within the subsequent Iranian calendar 12 months, which can start on March 21, an official with the Ministry of Education has mentioned.
Supported by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, the primary part of the initiative was launched in June 2025.
Since then, two million college students have joined this system to grasp AI from introductory programs to programming, ISNA quoted Seyyed Ali Hosseini as saying.
Moreover, a couple of thousand academics are studying AI, attending each on-line and digital coaching periods. In the following 4 months, the Ministry of Education, in cooperation with Sharif University of Technology, will prepare 200,000 academics, Hosseini famous.
Currently, some 16 million college students are finding out within the nation. Throughout the seventh National Development Plan (2023-2027), the Ministry of Education has to full instructing AI to two million college students. These embody elementary, junior highschool, and senior highschool college students. However, 80 p.c of the present college students studying AI are from junior excessive faculties, he added.
To encourage college students and academics, quite a lot of incentives are thought of. The Iran Digital platform is game-based and interactive, and the incentives embody holding seasonal competitions, rating high people in numerous geographical areas, and awarding prizes. The high people will even have the prospect to take part in superior programs.
The official went on to say that the Ministry of Education is pursuing two principal targets within the schooling sector. The first focuses on instructing AI to college students and academics, and the second will equip faculties with the newest digital units.
According to Abdolhossein Bahrami, an official with the Vice Presidency for Science, Technology, and Knowledge-Based Economy, boosting digital literacy will put together college students for future job markets, assist them develop their essential considering, and change into accustomed to rising applied sciences; it’ll additionally foster creativity and innovation amongst college students.
In Iran, the function of synthetic intelligence (AI) in schooling and studying was examined throughout a national convention held in Tehran on October 9, 2024.
The use of AI-driven applied sciences in schooling and studying as a transformative factor has not solely helped to promote the standard and effectivity of the academic course of however has additionally supplied totally different people with cutting-edge applied sciences and sensible options, ISNA reported.
By exactly analyzing instructional knowledge and offering on the spot suggestions, it has improved college students’ evaluation and academic content material manufacturing.
It additionally centered on three main axes: recognizing challenges and capabilities; establishing a dynamic and collaborative atmosphere, in addition to discovering evaluation and analysis strategies primarily based on rising applied sciences.
It centered on matters like AI and medical schooling, cognitive Sciences, faculties, design and content material manufacturing, human assets growth, instructional evaluation and analysis, AI in the way forward for schooling, and moral issues, in addition to synthetic intelligence and faculties.
The principal goal of the convention was to increase consciousness of contemporary applied sciences and their purposes in schooling and studying techniques.
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