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UK puts up to £2 million into Oak National Academy’s AI lesson tools for teachers

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The Department for Education said on 30 October 2023 it would invest up to £2 million in Oak National Academy to improve AI tools, a quiz designer and a lesson planner, and offer them free to teachers in England. Oak’s curriculum resources would also open to edtech firms and AI developers, and the department ran a two-day AI hackathon with Faculty AI and the National Institute of Teaching from the same day.

Why it matters

Teachers in England got state-funded AI planning tools aimed at cutting workload, built on a public curriculum dataset that AI developers could use.

When
30 Oct 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0107
Who
Department for Education, Oak National Academy

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from UK Department for Education. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2023-0107: “UK puts up to £2 million into Oak National Academy’s AI lesson tools for teachers.” wheresthe.ai, 30 Oct 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-dfe-oak-ai-tools-2023-10/ (source: UK Department for Education).

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