The launch of project VIAT took place at the Roemer Visscher College in The Hague. The Roemer Visscher College falls under Lucas Onderwijs, a consortium partner of NOLAI. Co-Creation Manager Annelies Wiggers and Project Leader Ismael Bella welcomed the participating teachers in the VMBO school's restaurant. From NOLAI, university lecturers Serge Thill and Roald Verhoeff were present. Serge Thill is involved in VIAT from the focus area Technical AI, and Roald Verhoeff, from the focus area Training and Professionalisation.
Project VIAT Launched with Lucas Onderwijs and IRIS Connect
The co-creation project VIAT (Video Interaction Analysis Tool) launched at the end of January. In this project, NOLAI, along with Lucas Onderwijs and IRIS Connect, is investigating how AI can help teachers in VO to reflect on teaching experiences to improve their teaching. The aim is to develop a video interaction analysis tool where AI can extract relevant metadata from video recordings of teaching situations and experiences.
Project VIAT
Project VIAT aims to support secondary school teachers in increasing their awareness and gaining insight by reflecting on their own teaching experiences. In this way, teachers can improve their methods in a focused way and in small steps. Looking back and reflecting on video recordings of teaching experiences by (prospective) teachers is an important and powerful way to improve development and is widely used in education. However, as watching back full recordings is hugely time-consuming, this is where AI can play a role in collecting and labelling metadata of relevant moments of reflection.
Co-creatie at NOLAI
Co-Creation Manager Annelies Wiggers: "The question from Roemer Visscher College, from which project VIAT arose, is enormously relevant. VIAT nicely demonstrates how we work with schools and companies at NOLAI in this education-science-business triangle. NOLAI's co-creation projects start and end in education; the teacher and student are central. We really need to look at how to give AI a proper place in education."
Data Without Judgement
The video interaction analysis tool being developed in this project serves the teacher. The tool does not pass judgement and only records objectively. Recordings can include how long a teacher speaks, how many open questions a teacher asks, or how long they stand with their back to the class during the lesson. Project leader Ismael Bella: "When you see that data back, you automatically start doing something with it, without that being directly the function of the tool, just like when you count your steps. AI can make many things easier, such as speeding up or driving development in certain directions when teachers cannot see their own blind spots or unconscious actions. I hope that this is something that will be useful in class, catching those small moments of development that you can input into lessons. This is the starting point of something observable, concrete and smartly formulated."
Contact information
- Organizational unit
- National Education Lab AI (NOLAI)
- About person
- J.L.M. Wiggers (Annelies)
- Theme
- Artificial intelligence (AI)