LoginUS Dept of ED Releases ‘Designing for Edu with AI’ Developer Guide
Today and in the future, a growing array of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and capabilities will be incorporated into the products that specifically serve educational settings. The U.S. Department of Education is committed to encouraging innovative advances in edtech to improve teaching and learning across the nation’s education systems and to supporting developers as they create products and services using AI for the educational market.
Building on the Department’s prior report, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations (2023 AI Report), this new guide seeks to inform product leads and their teams of innovators, designers, developers, customer-facing staff, and legal teams as they work toward safety, security, and trust while creating AI products and services for use in education. This landscape is broader than those building large language models (LLMs) or deploying chatbots; it includes all the ways existing and emerging AI capabilities can be used to further shared educational goals.
“Our insights here are intended to support people who are managing teams in the design and development of products that leverage AI to improve teaching and learning,” according to the guide’s authors. “We have attempted to address topics that will be relevant across the continuum of edtech developers, which includes established firms and newcomers, as well as developers across research, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations. We address not only developers of products for formal education settings— including elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities—but also for educational uses at home, community, and other informal settings.”
Among the many developers, industry associations, and nonprofit organizations that attended listening sessions and contributed their ideas for translating the Department’s recommendations for Artificial Intelligence in education into practical guidelines:
● Kristen DiCerbo, Khan Academy
● Teddy Hartman, GoGuardian
● Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
● Karl Rectanus, EDSAFE AI Alliance
● Steve Ritter, Carnegie Learning
● Sharad Sundararajan, Merlyn Mind
● Alyssa Van Camp, TeachFx
● Julia Winter, Alchemie Solutions, Inc.
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