Artificial intelligence and vocational education and training: how to shape the future

Looking in detail at the changing world of work, asking to what extent future jobs are threatened by artificial intelligence (AI) and automation and which jobs in particular was one task of the European project Taccle AI - Improving skills and competences of VET teachers and trainers in the age of Artificial Intelligence. It looks at requirements for new skills and knowledge arising from AI and poses the question of how humans and AI can work together. In addition, the project partners from five European countries examined the growing use of AI in vocational education and training including for recruiting and motivating students, for creating learning content, for assessment and for administration.

In this report we summarize the results and experiences from the Taccle AI project and particularly address VET providers. In the following section we present our central policy recommendations. In the third part we discuss and derive how we came to the recommendations by giving insights from the project. As the use of AI in work processes or educational contexts raises many ethical issues, we consider that as a major and comprehensive dimension in the context of AI. Due to this we start with that dimension in part three.

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