Applying master degree of AI. Supporting Statement for Australian Award Scholarship

Question:
Please:- a) give up to three practical examples of how you intend to use the knowledge, skills and connections you will gain from your scholarship. Possible tasks can be personal and/or professional; and
b) list any possible constraints you think may prevent you from achieving these tasks.*: (2000 )

First, in the professional innovation, I will lead the development of an AI-based learning platform with Datacare LLC developers after arriving in Mongolia. Through research projects such as "multimodal learning analytics" and "self-regulated learning", I will acquire the practical skills to analyze student behavioural data and create personalized learning paths for rural students. A major challenge is the shortage of high-level AI experts in Mongolia, which could hinder complex algorithm development. To overcome this, I will reach out to researchers at the Centre for Learning Analytics for technical advice. This link will be a critical factor to ensure that the platform meets international pedagogical and technical standards.

Second, I plan to launch a program to empower rural teachers. The "human-centred AI" course will provide me with the practical skills to design the training content. A key issue is that 75.2% of Mongolian teachers have never received pedagogical guidelines to conduct distance education, and 20% of teachers have no competency to operate digital equipment (All for Education, NGO, 2021). To overcome it, I will work with the education and technology graduates of the Australia Awards Alumni Network to form a team of trainers, providing teachers with modern educational and technological understanding.

Third, I will lead the creation of open-source Mongolian speech-to-text and text-to-speech tools for domestic companies. Through the Natural Language Processing course, I will learn the techniques required to process and tokenise large-scale Mongolian text data. Currently, high data-processing costs prevent local startups from developing AI models. I will solve this barrier by engaging my international peer network at Monash to initiate cost-effective, open-source development. This international collaboration will help overcome financial and technical obstacles while empowering Datacare LLC developers.

Why will you reach out the them? Remember that the reviewer does not have any idea about these organizations and their functions in your country. You need to give a quick reference to help them understand why the participation of this department will be critical to the success of your program and how you plan to coordinate with them for a successful undertaking.


You do not need to reference information sources in this response. While the reviewer will appreciate the presentation of data, he is not interested in the source of your information as this is a personal written interview instead of an academic paper.


This sounds like you will be applying for grants to help fund a specific program. You need to indicate if that will be your main intention for this particular situation so that the reviewer will have a better idea of post study implementation ideas on your part.

@Holt
I already mentioned the Centre for Learning Analytics in the previous question, so do I need to mention it again in this question?

Yes. You need to mention it again in this section but in a different context from the previous response that you gave. This time, make it specific to the coordination and cooperation that will be needed between the international and local agencies. You do not need to over discuss it. Make it serve as a reminded that you previously mentioned this agency already but now you will explain how it works in the framework of what you want to do. That way the reviewer does not need to wonder about how the agency functions. He will have forgotten that you previously mentioned the agency so the reminded will come in hand. It may prompt him to revisit your previous response to see how the actions you plan to take might corelate.