Artificial intelligence and education in China
By Jeremy Knox. Journal of Educational Media, 2020
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the political economy of artificial intelligence (AI) and education in China, through an analysis of government policy and private sector enterprise. While media and policy discourse often portray China’s AI development in terms of a unified national strategy, and a burgeoning geopolitical contestation for future global dominance, this analysis will suggest a more nuanced internal complexity, involving differing regional networks and international corporate activity. The first section considers two key policy documents published by the central Chinese government, which are shown to implicate educational institutions as influential actors in national and regional strategies for AI development, with a significant role in plans to train domestic expertise. The second section outlines three prominent private education companies: New Oriental Group, Tomorrow Advancing Life (TAL), and Squirrel AI. These companies are selected to represent important aspects of China’s development of educational AI applications, including the influence of a well-established private education sector, and a growing interest in international corporate activity. The paper concludes with the suggestion that while central government policy reserves a significant role for education in the national AI strategy, the private sector is utilising favourable political conditions to rapidly develop educational applications and markets.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications, Political Science and International Relations
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- A Review on Artificial Intelligence in Education (2021, neutral): “The education content of companies such as New Oriental and Yixue Education-Squirrel AI (Knox, 2020) that do better in intelligent adaptive education focuses on K12 Tutoring and English tutoring.”
- Enhancing academic writing skills and motivation: assessing the efficacy of ChatGPT in AI-assisted language learning for EFL students (2023, neutral): “…in English language classrooms is widely recognized as a means to overcome certain obstacles in language learning processes (Roll and Wylie, 2016; Knox, 2020), particularly in writing tasks where time constraints often arise (Stapleton and Radia, 2010; Kessler, 2020; Rahimi and Fathi, 2022;…”
- Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practices: digital technologies and distance education during the coronavirus emergency (2020, neutral): “There is also a geopolitical angle, re fl ecting how technology companies from the US and China have sought commercial advantage and expansion in education (Knox 2020).”
- A Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education from 2010 to 2020 (2021, neutral): “Learning about AI has also begun to be part of school curriculum [5, 6].”
- Artificial intelligence in language instruction: impact on English learning achievement, L2 motivation, and self-regulated learning (2023, positive): “Among the information technology programs, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising tool applied in language learning and teaching to enhance learners’ learning achievements (Haristiani, 2019; Pedro et al., 2019; Knox, 2020; Pikhart, 2020; Huang et al., 2023).”