Teaching Tomorrow: Why AI Readiness is Key to Qatar’s Education Vision
Qatar’s National Vision 2030 and its National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy set a bold agenda: transform the nation into a knowledge-based economy, with education as the engine and AI as a key enabler. But as AI tools enter classrooms, one question emerges: Are teachers ready? This policy brief, developed by WISE (Qatar Foundation) in collaboration […]
Navigating Skills Adaptation: Integrating AI in Higher Education
“Navigating Skills Adaptation: Integrating AI in Higher Education” presents the first findings of the Global Consortium on Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education for Workforce Development, a collaborative research initiative led by World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) and the Institute of International Education (IIE). Bringing together insights from seven countries, Qatar, Colombia, Ghana, India, Kazakhstan, Spain, […]
Demystifying AI: Preparing K-12 Teachers To Integrate AI Tools Into Their Practice
AI technologies have rapidly catalyzed major innovations and breakthroughs in recent years, particularly in generative AI (“genAI”), poised to transform education and workforce. This study by WISE in collaboration with the MIT pK-12 Initiative and MIT RAISE evaluates the effectiveness of short PD courses in preparing K–12 teachers to integrate AI into their teaching practices. The […]
Perceptions and Pathways to AI Integration
Global research on what AI readiness means for teachers across different education systems is still in its early stages. WISE, in collaboration with the University of Southern California (USC Rossier School of Education), conducted a mixed-methods study, combining surveys and interviews, to examine how K–12 teachers across five countries (Qatar, Colombia, India, Philippines, and the […]
Strengthening Learning Ecosystems in Qatar: Improving access to opportunity for all learners
WISE has been at the forefront in leading global thinking and practice around the concept of learning ecosystems, publishing one of the first major reports, Local Learning Ecosystems: Emerging Models 1, in 2019. This report set out a definition that has since been used to shape the field, and a series of defining characteristics of […]
Education Reimagined: Leadership for Transformation
Numerous crises are going on in our world today: health, climate change, and access to quality education, and this was already true before COVID-19. These crises affect how we teach, what we teach, and the skills we’ll need now and in the future. As a result, there is a growing global movement for educational transformation […]
Bridging the Evidence to Policy Gap: A Learning Partnership Approach to Research
WISE, the Education Commission, and Education Development Trust came together with the Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB) to generate new evidence on school and system leadership during COVID-19. School leadership has never been more complex or critical than it is today. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck and left over 1.5 billion children out of […]