CAIRO – Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister Ayman Ashour left on Wednesday for Paris to participate in “Digital Learning Week 2024”.
The Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry said in a statement that Ashour will post the attendees on the Egyptian Knowledge Bank’s experiment during a special session, organised by the conference on the success story of the bank. The EKB is one of the leading public digital banks in Africa and the Middle East.
During the session, the minister will also review the EKB’s achievements in providing free access to educational services for students, teachers, and researchers.
The minister added that the Bank managed to achieve its goals by reaching all learners at various educational levels, and have partnership with national and international publishers.
The second edition of Digital Learning Week will focus on the use of artificial intelligence in education with a specific emphasis on the interlinkages between digital transformation and greening education.
Digital Learning Week is one of the “UN intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder digital co-operation bodies and forums” to convene the community of digital education leaders, policy-makers, researchers and practitioners from various organisations, including UN agencies, governments, NGOs and the private sector.
The four-day in-person event 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.”
The theme of Digital Learning Week 2024 will focus on the use of AI in education with a specific emphasis on the interlinkages between digital transformation and greening education.
Highlights of the event include public lectures from opinion leaders and the Award Ceremony for the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education, which will be awarded to innovative projects that seek convergence between digital learning and greening education.
It will also feature the flagship initiative Gateways to Public Digital Learning and the launch of the youth version of the 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report on Technology in Education.
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