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At the 2026 World Digital Education Conference on May 12, China announced upgrades to the National Smart Education Platform, adding entry points for international resources, lifelong learning, and Chinese-language learning.
On May 12, the World Digital Education Alliance released two AI education standards, respectively specifying full-life-cycle requirements for AI application systems in education and infrastructure for AI-enabled smart campuses.
On May 12, China released a reference framework for digital education ethics, setting out principles including human decision-making, complementary collaboration, context-sensitive application, and differentiated governance.
On May 12, the World Digital Education Alliance released ten global AI education best-practice cases, selected from more than 500 submitted projects.
Released on May 12, the Global Digital Education Development Index covers 82 countries and adds observations related to thinking skills in AI environments; a concurrent smart-education report focuses on AI's restructuring of education.
On May 12, China's Ministry of Education announced that the first 18 university AI agents had joined the National Smart Education Platform for Higher Education, covering teaching support, multiple disciplines, and interdisciplinary programs.
At the basic-education parallel session of the 2026 World Digital Education Conference on May 12, China released General Artificial Intelligence Education Textbooks and the 'Ten Lectures and One Hundred Questions on General Artificial Intelligence Education' course series. The textbooks comprise four volumes for lower primary, upper primary, middle school, and high school.
