At the 9th ABÖ Café yesterday evening in Vienna, experts discussed what the design of educational media in the light of digitalization and artificial intelligence could look like in the future. Markus Spielmann, Managing Director of Helbling Verlag and President of the Austrian Education Media Alliancepointed out the profound changes that the rapidly advancing developments bring with them: “AI has the potential to promote good learning: it can enrich educational media in innovative ways, facilitate learning and support teachers in lesson preparation and correction phases. As an educational media provider, we strive to make the best and most meaningful use of new opportunities offered by AI.How this can be achieved, what problems need to be taken into account and how important the “human factor” will remain in the future was discussed in the subsequent expert panel, moderated by Silvia Grünberger, Managing Partner of Rosam.Grünberger.Jarosch & Partnerintensively discussed.
Aleksandar Petrovic von Retrescoa company that specializes in automated content generation and AI solutions for publishers, explained how AI can change educational media: Although automated production of textbooks using generative AI would already be theoretically possible, AI is currently primarily being used to support used to increase efficiency and quality, explained Petrovic. He sees potential above all in the fact that semantic AI could make the transfer of knowledge in textbooks more interactive in the future. “Artificial intelligence can dynamically adapt not only content, but also learning itself“, says Petrovic. This opens up new perspectives for publishers to make knowledge more accessible through intelligent chatbots, question-and-answer systems and virtual assistants.
That was true Bernhard Gleiss, Head of AI the interactive mathematics learning platform Studylyand emphasized how AI can individualize learning and thus sustainably increase learning success. “Through AI-supported analysis, learning needs can be better understood and learning paths can be flexibly adjusted“, explained Gleiss and explained that publishers and EdTechs can use AI to set new standards in the design of teaching materials.
Stefan Raffeiner, founder and managing director of Teachinogave an insight into the possible uses of AI-supported teaching assistance. In the discussion, Raffeiner highlighted how valuable AI can be for teachers to make lesson planning more efficient. “Programs like Teachino relieve teachers of several hours of planning work each week by creating automated, differentiated lesson suggestions“, says Raffeiner.
The discussion impressively showed how AI-based technologies are fundamentally transforming the education system and what innovation potential they hold. At the same time, the experts pointed out important ethical and legal issues that require responsible use of AI in education. There was agreement that publishers and schools need new digital skills in order to keep up with developments and optimally integrate educational content into an AI-supported learning environment.
With the ABÖ Café, the Educational Media Alliance has created a valuable platform for regular exchanges about current trends and developments in the field of educational media. More than 50 members of the Educational Media Alliance once again accepted the invitation and continued the discussion in an intensive round of questions from the audience.
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