How can we design AI learning assistants to transform the way learners discover and navigate opportunities within the ECIU learning environment? This challenge invites you to rethink how personalised guidance can empower learners to achieve their goals. Using cutting-edge AI technologies, you'll co-create solutions that support diverse learner and professional needs and preferences while exploring the digital landscape with Microsoft Co-pilot platform and Virtual Reality with Microsoft Mesh environment where you can interact with your own digital avatars in a virtual classroom.
Through a dynamic program combining online sessions and an intensive three-day workshop at Tampere university, you will learn how to create AI agents capable of providing personalized assistance in learning and competence development, such as in the ECIU Engage platform. With opportunities to design assistants with different characteristics, response styles, and functionalities, you’ll have the freedom to create, innovate and experiment. Guided by workshops, expert mentoring, and peer collaboration, you’ll develop a prototype that balances ease of use, response accuracy, and effective learner guidance. Your designs will be evaluated by AI specialists, pushing you to deliver impactful, practical solutions.
By joining this challenge, you’ll develop AI prototypes that serve as personalised assistants for assisting individuals in learning and in competence development in digital environments (AI chatbot) or Virtual Realities (AI avatar). The prototypes can contribute to navigating the ECIU Engage platform and make a lasting contribution to the way ECIU offers learner guidance, designed for students, by students! These assistants will offer tailored guidance, adapt to individual learner styles, and potentially integrate seamlessly into the existing Engage platform. The final prototypes will be evaluated by AI experts based on usability, accuracy, and effectiveness in supporting learner journeys. The potential for further development by the ECIU will be evaluated as well.
The ECIU AI hackathon is organized in collaboration with Gameful Realities research center and EVIL-AI project.