Adelaide University CSER and Raspberry Pi Foundation Partner to Bring Experience AI Teacher Training to Australia

Adelaide University announced on 2 September 2026 that its Computer Science Education Research (CSER) Group has joined a global partnership with the UK-based Raspberry Pi Foundation to deliver the Experience AI program to teachers across Australia. The program, developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind and funded in Australia by Google.org, provides ready-to-use classroom materials requiring no prior AI knowledge. Research shows 66% of Australian lower secondary teachers already use AI in the classroom, above the OECD average of 36%, while only 32% have access to approved tools.

The partnership shifts AI teaching capacity building from individual teacher efforts to a nationally available offering aligned to the curriculum and backed by project officers, directly addressing the gap between high teacher AI use and low access to approved tools. For schools, the free design without specialist infrastructure lowers adoption barriers; for AI education product providers, it suggests classroom AI literacy teaching may increasingly be served by public and nonprofit resources. The original text does not provide the number of Australian schools covered or outcome data, so actual scale remains to be observed. Australian teachers can access free AI teaching materials aligned to Curriculum Version 9.0 and six hours of professional learning without prior AI knowledge. School leaders can introduce AI literacy lessons without specialist infrastructure investment, though adoption depends on teacher sign-ups and project officer support.