Catalogue: AI in Education clear
3 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: South Africa (17)
University of Pretoria and the hearX Foundation's free AI WhatsApp chatbot trains teachers to spot childhood hearing loss; 12,000+ South African educators …
South Africa's higher-education department and Google signed a two-year deal for 10,000 AI, cybersecurity and data-analytics Career Certificate scholarships across universities, TVET …
Facing evidence that AI-text detectors misclassify non-native English writing, South Africa's UCT, Stellenbosch, UFS and Wits disabled Turnitin's AI detector in 2025-26, …
In June 2025 the University of Cape Town's Senate endorsed an AI in Education Framework, and from 1 October 2025 UCT discontinued …
South African platform for 2M+ secondary students with free government-distributed maths/science textbooks and AI-adaptive practice. Dell Foundation: 17,000 Gauteng pupils. JumpStart quasi-experiment …
The University of Johannesburg upgraded its MoUJi chatbot with LLM technology so students can check admission scores, register and get financial-aid help …
A University of Cape Town-led team fine-tuned open-source speech-recognition models to automatically score early-grade oral reading fluency in isiXhosa, using 14,971 recordings …
A 10-day AGCCI bootcamp at Motheo TVET College, Bloemfontein (29 June-9 July 2026) trained 40 young women from Motheo TVET and Free …
A case study evaluated the Wysa wellbeing chatbot, adopted by 4,871 users (18.73% adoption rate) at the University of the Western Cape …
Stellenbosch declined a single institution-wide generative-AI rule. Lecturers decide per module whether AI is prohibited, restricted, allowed, encouraged or required, and explain …
Cape Town incubator Injini, backed by Coefficient Giving, is running an 8-month venture-builder taking 12 teams from nine Southern African countries through …
Pretoria accounting lecturers built a GPT-4 web tool giving essay-question feedback engineered around Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick's principles. A study of 75 scripts …
The University of the Free State grew a COVID-era chatbot into KovsieChat, an AI assistant for admissions, registration and financial-aid queries at …
A five-month study of Mangosuthu University of Technology's AI-assisted student-support chatbot analysed 1,495 admissions, registration and IT-support interactions, finding 96.8% first-query resolution …
Two Cape Town graduates built FoondaMate, a free WhatsApp/Messenger study chatbot for students with limited or costly internet. By mid-2022 it reached …
UKZN's Disability Support Unit gave five visually impaired students Envision AI smart glasses — donated at R75,000 (~$4,100) a pair by Sensory …
Telkom Foundation, BCX and Alibaba Cloud partnered with the University of the Witwatersrand in September 2026 to give about 165 third-year computer …
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