The BoYa Artificial Intelligence Education Large Model, developed jointly by the National Engineering Research Center for Software Engineering at Peking University and the School of Education, was launched in Beijing on December 8. This large model consists of a series of specialized models from various disciplines, demonstrating strong educational capabilities across different subjects. It can be widely applied in higher education institutions, vocational schools, and primary and secondary schools, enabling large-scale personalized teaching tailored to individual needs.
This large model is independently developed using domestic teaching data, aiming to create a Chinese version of an artificial intelligence education large model to promote the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of the education sector. During the launch event, the "Peking University Intelligent Learning" teaching platform and innovative curriculum projects based on the BoYa education large model were also introduced. These projects aim to integrate the educational large model with curriculum teaching, conduct innovative research and practice in curriculum teaching, and build a contextualized, gamified, and intelligent learning environment based on learning sciences, characterized by gamified learning and supported by artificial intelligence, making learning more scientific, enjoyable, and effective.
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The research and development team consists of the Knowledge Computing Laboratory of the National Engineering Research Center for Software Engineering and the Learning Sciences Laboratory of the School of Education. They proposed a "Research and Application Architecture for Artificial Intelligence Education Large Models" driven by both artificial intelligence technology and learning sciences theory. This architecture integrates teaching corpus and learning science concepts during the research processes of data governance, model training, and application development, promoting the transition of large models from generalization to the education field, and exploring personalized, innovative teaching supported by large models.
The innovative curriculum projects based on the BoYa education large model are led by Professor Chen Bin from the School of Computer Science at Peking University and currently include five courses: "Fundamentals and Applications of Python," "Artificial Intelligence and Information Society," among others. These courses combine the BoYa education large model with the "Peking University Intelligent Learning" teaching platform, redesigning intelligent teaching through guided tutoring with prompt generation and real-time Q&A, achieving adaptive learning through personalized questioning and proactive inquiry, and enhancing teacher teaching efficiency through automated assignment grading and research assistant tools.
The "Peking University Intelligent Learning" platform and courses will be piloted for undergraduate and graduate students at Peking University on a class-by-class basis and are planned to be gradually opened to other higher education institutions, vocational schools, and senior high schools that express interest in participation. Zhang Shikun, director of the National Engineering Research Center for Software Engineering at Peking University, stated that the BoYa education large model can be fine-tuned and continuously trained based on data from different subjects, enabling it to better meet the needs of educational instruction and support various course scenarios. With the continuous iteration of the BoYa education large model and the launch of specialized educational large model series for different disciplines, it can support more specialized and disciplinary course teaching, implement educational reform practices based on large models in more schools, and contribute a Chinese solution to the global development of educational large models.