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KITE's AI Training Reaches 80,000 Secondary-School Teachers Across Kerala, India

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 40% 53/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Kerala's KITE agency ran three-day AI-literacy workshops for 80,000 secondary-school teachers from May 2024 — covering prompt engineering, AI content creation, assessment design and deepfake/responsible-AI risks — after first training 180 master trainers; 16,500 teachers had comp

80,000
Teachers targeted for AI-literacy training
16,500
Teachers completed in early rollout weeks

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), Department of General Education, Government of Kerala
Period
May–August 2024
Keywords
teacher training, AI literacy, K-12 public education, education technology

Context

Kerala's KITE began three-day, in-person AI-literacy training for 80,000 secondary-school teachers (Classes 8–12) statewide from 2 May 2024, cascading through 180 Master Trainers and district IT coordinators.

Results

By the opening weeks of rollout, 16,500 of the targeted 80,000 teachers had completed the course, described as among the largest single-state AI-training efforts of its kind, but these are self-reported completion counts, not an evaluation of classroom-practice change or student learning outcomes.

Implementation

Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
KITE (Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education), 180 Master Trainers cascading to district coordinators

Conditions for success

  • Institutional G-Suite accounts avoided reliance on personal credentials

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