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Staying current - articles and announcements

Staying current: Our June Recap of Key Articles & Vendor Announcements

We’re changing the way we share our regular updates going forwards.  Feedback is that our newsletters are interesting but increasingly long as AI activity continues to develop at pace. We’ve therefore decided to split the activities and from now on we will still send our regular newsletter but focus on sharing our own news, practical […]

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AI in Education Community

May HE Community Lean Coffee

We started this meeting with a discussion about copilot 365, which we are currently piloting.  We wanted to use it to create the meeting summary and notes for the session, and have published a separate blog to share how effective this was. Then moving into our standard lean coffee format, using Padlet this time.  Discussion […]

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Advice and Guidance

Copilot 365 Teams meeting summary

I’m starting this blog with an admission: this is my favourite feature so far of Copilot365.  For some reason, and even I don’t understand why, I have a real passion for making a page of my notepad last as long as possible and writing minimal notes, in random places on the current page.  The current […]

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AI in Education Community

April HE Community session

As usual we started the session with Lean Coffee.  This time around we focused on a single discussion: How to govern AI use in your institution? Who is using what and should they be? Or do you just hope and pray? The concerns were largely around data security and privacy and staff and students using […]

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Student perceptions

How to support students/learners with generative AI

Following our initial Student Perceptions of Generative AI report last year, we recognised the need to continue the discussion with students/learners as the technology continues to evolve. Over this past winter, we have run a series of nine in-person student discussion forums with over 200 students across colleges and universities to revisit student/learner perceptions of […]

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Student perceptions

Student concerns around generative AI

Following our initial Student Perceptions of Generative AI report last year, we recognised the need to continue the discussion with students/learners as the technology continues to evolve. Over this past winter, we have run a series of nine in-person student discussion forums with over 200 students across colleges and universities to revisit student/learner perceptions of […]

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Student perceptions

How students are currently using generative AI

Following our initial Student Perceptions of Generative AI report last year, we recognised the need to continue the discussion with students/learners as the technology continues to evolve. Over this past winter, we have run a series of nine in-person student discussion forums with over 200 students across colleges and universities to revisit student/learner perceptions of […]

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AI in Education Community

Update on FE AI literacy working group

AI is of course much more than just generative AI, and a full discussion around AI literacy would need to cover more traditional AI uses too, for example predictive models, adaptive learning, image recognition, recommendation engines and many other tools and techniques.  Generative AI is the hot topic now though, so the groups discussion focused […]

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Advice and Guidance

Guiding Your AI Journey: Essential Resources

We thought it would be useful to pull our resources together in a more structured way to support different stages of AI maturity.  Our aim is to develop a dynamic web based easy-to-use toolkit that grows with your needs.  Initially we are sharing in blog format mapped to both support areas and maturity stage.   The […]

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AI in Education Community

HE Community Feb 2024

We’ve now got our standard meeting format in place – Lean Coffee discussion for the first 20 minutes and a focused discussion for the final 25 minutes. For the February Lean coffee we managed to discuss two topics: Approved/approving AI tools within institutions: The discussion focused on the challenges and strategies involved in approving AI […]