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From July 28 to 29, the Guangdong Postgraduate Forum on Interdisciplinary Integration of Education and Artificial Intelligence was held at the Shipai campus of SCNU, bringing together over 200 experts and scholars, postgraduate students, as well as representatives from more than 20 universities and primary and secondary schools across China.
Wang Yan, deputy secretary of the SCNU Committee of Communist Party of China (CPC), said that the university attaches great importance to the interdisciplinary development of the field of "AI + Education". Confronted with the new landscape of global technological competition and the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, SCNU will further deepen the reform of postgraduate education, and focus on cultivating future teachers capable of integrating AI with education. He also encouraged young students to delve into interdisciplinary fields to seek theoretical knowledge, hone their innovative capabilities, and adhere to the essence of education.
Shui Lingling, dean of the Graduate School at SCNU, introduced the university's innovative measures such as building an interdisciplinary platform, innovating the training mechanism to create an open academic ecosystem, and adopting a joint training model for interdisciplinary mentors, with a focus on supporting cross-disciplinary research oriented towards education and artificial intelligence.
Hu Qintai, professor of Guangdong University of Technology, analyzed the opportunities and challenges brought by the application of AI in education from the perspective of educational philosophy in his keynote speech titled "Educational
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics". He emphasized that ethical norms should be the foundation of educational AI development, pointing out that the application of technology should always serve the all-round development of individuals and educational equity.
Professor Hu Qintai, professor of Guangdong University of Technology, delivers a keynote report.
Lu Xiaozhong, dean of the Institute for Advanced Study of Education Development in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of SCNU, gave a keynote speech entitled "Future Education toward the Era of AI". As the future of education will shift towards "adaptability" and "leadership", he called for a humanistic approach to promoting educational transformation across multiple dimensions, so as to nurture a new generation capable of navigating an unpredictable future.
Lu Xiaozhong, dean of the Institute for Advanced Study of Education Development in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of SCNU, gives a keynote report.
In his keynote speech entitled "A New Paradigm of Personalized Education Driven by Cognitive Diagnosis", Huang Tao, professor of the Central China Normal University, deputy director of the National Engineering Research Center for E-learning and the National Engineering Research Center of Big Data, explained how AI was driving education to shift from experience-driven to data intelligence-driven. His team has proposed cognitive diagnostic models for the difficulties in different fields, thereby empowering personalized teaching models and individualized education.
Huang Tao, professor of the Central China Normal University, makes a keynote report.
Hu Xiaoyong, director of the Teacher Development Center at SCNU, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Empowering Interdisciplinary 'Three Creations' Research-oriented Talent Cultivation with Educational Artificial Intelligence", sharing his insights on the innovation and achievements of AI in education. 
Hu Xiaoyong, director of the Teacher Development Center at SCNU, makes a report.
The forum was directed by the Graduate School of SCNU, and hosted by the Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Education at SCNU.
Source from SCNU News Center
Translated by Zhong Yiting, Xie Shaochai
Proofread by Edwin Baak
Edited by Li Jianru
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