About the initiative
A serious, global research programme — built around teachers.
To understand — rigorously, at scale, and in the real classrooms that need it most — how AI can help teachers teach better. And to put a trusted, school-based AI platform in their hands while we do it.
Our purpose
To understand how AI can help teachers teach better — and to put a trusted, school-based platform in their hands while we find out.
Our vision
Every teacher, in every country, equipped and confident to use AI safely, ethically and effectively.
A world where the benefits of AI in education are equitable, inclusive, locally governed and globally shared.
Our commitment
Four promises we hold ourselves to.
To teachers
Your time is respected, your work is credited, your data is yours, and your growth is the point.
To rigour
This is real research — transparent methodology, honest findings, independent credibility.
To equity
We focus on Africa, South Asia and wider Asia, in local languages, in real conditions, including low-connectivity settings.
To responsibility
Data governance, informed consent, and ethical AI are built in, not bolted on.
At a glance
The Fellowship, in one view.
Operational roadmap from launch through recognition, and the teacher benefits driving the work.
Our objectives
The six things we will deliver.
- 01
Recruit and support [TARGET] teachers across [N] countries over 12–18 months.
- 02
Operationalise the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Teachers as a measurable, practical pathway.
- 03
Generate the largest real-world evidence base on AI-competency development in under-resourced classrooms.
- 04
Publish open research: baseline, interim, and a flagship impact study.
- 05
Recognise qualifying teachers as UNESCO × learnOS AI Educator Research Fellows.
- 06
Build a durable global community of AI-capable educators.
Leadership board
The people guiding the initiative.
A board of internationally recognised education leaders provides strategic direction, safeguards rigour, and connects the Fellowship to policy, practice and research at the highest level.
Why now.
Help build the global evidence base.
Apply to become a Fellow and contribute to the largest real-world study of AI in teaching.