Professor Fengchun MIAO
Chief, Unit for Technology and AI in Education, UNESCO, Paris
Biography
Dr Fengchun Miao is the Chief of the Unit for Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education at Education Sector, UNESCO HQ in Paris, he is also a Professor (on leave) of Beijing Normal University of China. He is leading programmes of the Education Sector of UNESCO on technological innovation in education including the development of AI competencies, ethical principles on the use of AI in education, AI and the futures of learning, and supporting digital learning policy development, mobile learning, and OER. He is managing UNESCO Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education. Highlights of his achievements include leading the organization of 4 international conferences on AI and education (2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022) and the development and adoption of the Beijing Consensus on AI and Education; the launch and continuous organization of Mobile Learning Week of UNESCO for 9 years; the development and adoption of Qingdao Declaration on leveraging ICT to achieve SDG 4; Directly led the training and technical advices to more than 70 countries on national digital learning policies. He is the leading author of more than 20 important publications and reports of UNESCO including: Guidelines for ICT in education policies and masterplans; AI and education: guidance for policy-makers; Guidelines on the development of open educational resources policies; K-12 AI curricula: A mapping of government-endorsed AI curricula; Education and Blockchain; Innovative use of technology in education: Winning projects of UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize; Open educational resources: policy, costs, transformation.