Students and teachers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, sometimes without realizing it. Search engines, smart assistants, chatbots, language translation tools, navigation apps, online video games, and many other applications use artificial intelligence in our daily lives. AI systems rely on data collected in various ways (eg sound, images, text, posts, clicks), which together form our digital footprints.

AI has great potential to improve education and training for students, teachers and HEIs administrators. Today, AI systems help some teachers identify specific learning needs, provide students with unique and personalized learning experiences, and help some higher education institutions make better decisions so that they can more effectively use the teaching resources they have dispose.

As AI systems continue to develop and the use of data increases, it is very important to better understand their impact on the world we live in, especially on education and training. Teachers and leaders need at least a basic understanding of the use of AI and data in order to interact positively, critically and ethically with this technology and exploit its full potential in an appropriate way.

Content of this chapter:
4.3.1. About intelligence and artificial intelligence
4.3.2. AI tools and tasks
4.3.3. Applications of AI in education
4.3.4. AI-related competences
4.3.5. Pedagogical innovation with AI
4.3.6. The ethical issues of using AI in education