classroom Observation and Exchange on Digital Learning in Schools(Ministry of Education) From August 11 to 15, 2024, the Ministry of Education led a delegation including representatives from the Office of Promoting Digital Learning Enhancement Plan in local governments to Singapore. During the visiting, they engaged with Singapore's education authorities, the National Institute of Education (NIE) at Nanyang Technological University, the AI Research Centre Singapore (AICET), the AI Singapore (AISG), Google’s Asia-Pacific headquarter, and several primary and secondary schools to share and exchange experiences related to digital learning and AI-enhanced education. This visit also responded to the theme of the AI literacy framework for students and teachers announced during UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week, held from September 2 to 5, 2024.
Singapore's EdTech Masterplan 2030 aims to provide personalized learning, enhancing students' digital self-learning capabilities, improving technology proficiency and 21st-century competencies, advancing school technology education, and strengthening teachers' digital teaching skills. The goal is to prepare students for a rapidly evolving technological landscape. In Taiwan, the MOE promotes” The Digital Learning Enhancement Plan” in 2022-2025 to improve school networks, providing mobile devices and diverse digital content, offering teacher training courses, and utilizing educational big data analytics to support teaching, foster students' self-learning abilities, and enhance learning outcomes.
In Singapore, every school cluster is supported by two Educational Technology Officers (ETOs) and uses self-assessment tools to identify strengths and improvement in planning and implementation. Students receive an annual subsidy of SGD 200 to buy learning devices and related software. Additionally, the Student Learning Space (SLS) offers curriculum-aligned resources and includes features for collaborative and self-regulated learning, as well as teaching tools, to enhance flexibility in teaching and learning.
Taiwan subsidizes local governments to establish digital learning offices and hire administrative, network, and counseling personnel. It fully covers the costs for purchasing learning devices, digital content, and teaching software, providing comprehensive digital learning resources for teachers and students, also including developing basic and advanced training courses for teachers to use digital learning platforms effectively in their teaching. Additionally, the MOE has set up the “Taiwan Adaptive Learning Platform” (TALP) and the “Cool English” digital learning platforms, which offer free digital learning materials and classroom tools, ensuring no disparity between urban and rural areas. The unique knowledge structure features of the TALP have also attracted interest from Singapore, which hopes to learn more about its development.
Both Singapore and Taiwan are actively developing digital and AI-enhanced learning environments. TALP now features AI-driven cross-grade diagnostic functions and incorporates generative AI to create learning companion tools. It is also available nationwide for teachers and students following the release of Digital Teaching Guide v3.0. Additionally, the initiative continues to enhance teacher training to stay aware of digital learning trends, providing the latest teaching resources and methods to help students improving technology proficiency in their learning and develop skills to face challenges and embrace the future.