Digital Learning Week
Digital Learning Week is UNESCO's annual flagship event on digital learning and the transformation of education. It was launched in 2023, building on the foundation of UNESCO’s Mobile Learning Week over the past decade. The annual event is recognized as one of the “UN Intergovernmental and Multi-Stakeholder Digital Cooperation Bodies and Forums” to convene the community of digital education leaders, policy-makers, researchers and practitioners from various organizations, including UN agencies, governments, NGOs and the private sector.
UNESCO's Digital Learning Week presents a unique opportunity to participate in dynamic and thought-provoking discussions, dialogue and the sharing of groundbreaking ideas, and to foster meaningful co-creation and collaborative efforts to advance the digital transformation of education and to “reimagine our futures together.”
Participate
Registration to Digital Learning Week 2024 is now open and is mandatory for all participants.
Apply for a chance to present during Digital Learning Week
To surface best practices and facilitate knowledge sharing, UNESCO is currently selecting presentations through three calls for proposals:
- Generative AI for teaching and learning
Deadline: 17 May 2024 - AI and education
Deadline: 17 May 2024 - Intersection of digital and green transitions
Deadline: 24 May 2024
Looking back at Digital Learning Week 2023
Core outcomes of Digital Learning Week 2023 include:
- Guidance for Generative AI in education and research, UNESCO’s first-ever global guidance on GenAI in education calling on countries to regulate its use was released.
- An Ed-Tech Tragedy?, publication warning against the overuse of technology was launched.
- AI Competency Frameworks for teachers and students, presented to collect feedbacks on the drafts in view of their finalization by early 2024.
The event also highlighted some important guidance produced by UNESCO in this area, and multiple UNESCO policy guidelines on digital learning and AI in education including AI and Education: Guidance for Policy-makers, Guidelines for ICT in Education Policies and Masterplans, Education and Blockchain, and K-12 AI curricula: a mapping of government-endorsed AI curricula.
During the week, UNESCO shared progress made in implementing the Gateways to Public Digital Learning Initiative launched at the Transforming Education Summit (TES) in September 2022.
The Award ceremony of the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education took place during the Week, with its latest edition focusing on the use of public digital learning platforms.
Digital learning and AI in education: UNESCO’s integrated vision
As an introduction to Digital Learning Week 2023, Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, gave a comprehensive speech on UNESCO's work to integrate new digital tools, including generative AI, into the education system.
Digital Learning Week 2023
More about UNESCO's action
Resources
- AI and education: guidance for policy-makers
- Beijing Consensus on Artificial Intelligence and Education
- Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Guidelines for ICT in education policies and masterplans
- Education and blockchain
- Gateways to Public Digital Learning
- Innovative use of technology in education: winning projects of UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize
- Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion, Compendium of Promising Initiatives: Mobile Learning Week 2020
- Artificial intelligence in Education, Compendium of Promising Initiatives: Mobile Learning Week 2019
- Beyond disruption: technology enabled learning futures; 2020 edition of Mobile Learning Week, 12-14 October 2020: report
- Artificial intelligence for Sustainable Development: synthesis report, Mobile Learning Week 2019
- Previous Mobile Learning Weeks: 2023 - 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2011
