The Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences and the National Science Foundation Announce New AI Institute to Accelerate Learning
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded approximately $20 million dollars to the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign to create The Institute for Inclusive and Intelligent Technologies for Education (INVITE). This institute is one of a suite of institutes launched by the federal government as part of a $500 million investment, the largest from the federal government in artificial intelligence (AI) to date.
- INVITE will focus on three noncognitive skills linked to effective learning: persistence, academic resilience, and collaboration.
- This is the second AI institute NSF and IES have funded together as part of the major investment.
- The University of Buffalo received an award earlier this year to establish the National AI Institute for Exceptional Education .
- "The National AI Research Institutes are a critical component of our Nation's AI innovation, infrastructure, technology, education, and partnerships ecosystem," said NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan.