Identify and Select AI Use Cases to Pilot in the Education Sector

Get input from academic and administrative stakeholders on potential use cases.
Align use cases to your educational mission and strategic objectives.
Select the best use cases from among the many available options.
Navigate education-specific compliance and accessibility requirements.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Educational institutions lack methodology or process to arrive at a shortlist specific to education.
Institutions haven't established criteria necessary to select use cases that would add value to their educational mission.
Organizations are unsure of their readiness to pilot AI technologies in educational contexts.
Clarity is needed on how to use AI to create strategic advantage for the institution.

Impact and Result

Give AI in your organization a purpose aligned to educational mission and strategic value.
Develop an iterative, structured, and reusable process to identify, rationalize, and prioritize potential AI use cases using proven education examples.
Distinguish between horizontal and vertical AI approaches for strategic advantage.

Identify and Select AI Use Cases to Pilot in the Education Sector Research & Tools

1. Identify and Select AI Use Cases Deck to Pilot in the Education Sector Deck – A step-by-step document that walks you through how to optimally identify and select use cases for your first AI pilot.

Identify and select pilot AI use cases with the methodology outlined in this blueprint. This storyboard will help you develop a longlist, establish the core working group, define value and readiness for your organization, narrow down use cases to a shortlist, evaluate value and readiness, conduct a SWOT analysis, and select the use case to be piloted.

2. AI Pilot Project Shortlisting Tool for Education – A tool to help you select AI pilot use cases.

This tool will help you document your selection process and present the case for a pilot. You can reuse the tool to support an iterative process to continuously collect and review new use cases.

3. AI Case Study Library for the Education Sector – A centralized library of AI use cases implemented in the education sector.

This tool contains a catalog of AI use cases that have been implemented across colleges, universities, schools, and districts. Use this tool as a reference resource in conjunction with the storyboard.

Go from idea to impact with a value-driven selection process.

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What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 3 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Develop a Longlist

Call 1: Review Info-Tech’s methodology, discuss prerequisites for this project, identify roles in the working group, and review approaches and tools for building a longlist.

Guided Implementation 2: Cut to a Shortlist

Call 1: Discuss how to run a voting exercise so you can cut your longlist to create a shortlist.

Guided Implementation 3: Select Your Pilot AI Use Case

Call 1: Develop value and readiness scoring scales. Conduct a detailed assessment of your shortlist. Select a pilot project.

Author

Mark Maby

Contributors

Leslie Accardo, Model Schools Coordinator, Lower Hudson Regional Information Center
Mary Lynn Collins-Callanan, Manager of Instructional Technology Department, Lower Hudson Regional Information Center
Madalyn Romano, Assistant Director - Strategic Planning, Lower Hudson Regional Information Center
Howard Miller, Chief Information Officer, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer, UC San Diego