Innovation Research Network for AI for Education – EduAI Hub
Innovation Networks
Benin
Nigeria
About
Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant education challenges, including high numbers of out-of-school children, language barriers in classrooms, and overburdened teachers. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers transformative potential to address these issues, enhancing access to education and improving the quality of learning across the continent.
The EduAI Hub established a research network to develop responsible AI innovations for education in sub-Saharan Africa. Bringing together researchers, developers, and designers, the initiative focused on creating scalable, inclusive, and locally relevant AI solutions to strengthen teaching, learning, and administrative functions in schools. By fostering AI innovation within Africa, the project aimed to drive sustainable and inclusive education systems across the region.
Subprojects
The purpose of this project is to create an adaptive and customisable tool that will be used to create a conducive learning environment for disabled students in institutions of higher education.
This project seeks to develop an assistive Artificial Intelligence technology for Kenyan Sign Language (AI4KSL) that translates spoken English to Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) for deaf people with visual representation using virtual signing characters.
The aim of this project is to curate parallel corpora for the three main Nigerian languages (Hausa, Igbo, and Yorùbá) that cover the two core disciplines or domains which are: agricultural science and civic education; with each discipline having 8,000, and in total 16,000 parallel sentences per language.
The aim of this research is to develop a responsible, ethical and locally developed artificial intelligence (AI)-drivensolution to influence and facilitate the processes of teaching and learning non-linguistic subjects in Nigerian primary schools, with mathematics as the case study.
The objective of this research project is to develop an Amharic TTS system, which is mainly used to address the issue of equity and inclusion of visually impaired and blind students in Ethiopia.
The goal of this project is to develop a sign-to-text and text-to-sign software system that will enable seamless interactions among the students-hearing and hearing impaired- and their teachers.
The purpose of this project is to leverage on the e-learning concept being developed by the AIIG’s technology partner – Social Coding, to formalise and test its efficacy in improving educational access and performance for rural girls and learners in general in South Africa.
