The role of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in closing the education gap

Dorina Rosca

Chapter 8 in Pathways To Sustainable Development, 2025, pp 122-136 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter analyzes the role of emerging technologies, digitalization, and AI in advancing the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 4, which seeks to ensure an inclusive and equitable quality education underpinned by opportunities for lifelong learning, particularly in the developing world. The chapter explores the transformative potential of digital tools and AI in elevating educational standards and closing the education gap. The chapter also discusses the challenges and opportunities of integrating these technologies in developing countries. Using India and Moldova as case studies, the chapter critically examines the challenges of integrating digital and AI-driven technologies within regions and developing urban and rural areas. It also highlights the process of transferring these technologies from developed to developing countries and evaluates their impact on specific SDG 4 targets, namely, equal success in technical/vocational and higher education (Target 4.3), relevant skills for decent work (4.4), effective learning environments (4.8), and teachers and education (4.10). The chapter discusses contextual local conditions and obstacles that prevent a smooth transfer of these technologies (regional inequalities in terms of infrastructure, skills gaps, and so on).

Keywords: Digitalization in education; Education gap; Sustainable development; SDG 4; India; Republic of Moldova; Urban–rural divide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035356331
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