Oman's Digitalisation of Curricula — Ministry-Led AI Teacher Training and Interactive Textbooks with UNESCO and BP Oman

Since 2022, Oman's Ministry of Education has run a multi-year effort to bring AI into K-12 teaching, starting with UNESCO-backed workshops on AI integration and digital-skills assessment for teachers, alongside a Digitalisation of Curricula project with BP Oman converting grades 1-4 textbooks into interactive VR/animation/simulation formats, aligned with Oman Vision 2040's knowledge-economy goals.

The Ministry delivered AI-related classroom-practice training to educators, built new AI labs, formed university collaborations, and digitalised early-grade textbooks with BP Oman. A separate, independently conducted mixed-methods study surveyed 243 teachers and 266 students across urban and rural government secondary schools on AI adoption and its effects.

By January 2025, Oxford Business Group reported the ministry had trained nearly 3,300 educators in AI-related classroom practice. The programme won a gold award at the 2024 International AI Competition. The independent survey study found AI tools cut teachers' administrative workload by roughly 20% and that 65% of students found AI-enhanced lessons more engaging, particularly in science and mathematics, though rural schools showed markedly lower adoption due to connectivity and hardware gaps.

The academic study's own authors flag methodological limits (no randomisation, no significance testing, no stated sampling method), so its figures should be read as indicative of an early, uneven rollout rather than a rigorously verified causal effect; government-side figures are administrative counts rather than independently audited outcomes.