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What AI skills will learners need?

Context This post shares the key findings from a series of staff development workshops delivered at a further education college in the north of England. In the workshop, we asked staff what they understood about how artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to impact the skills required by industry in the future. A range of curriculum […]

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Innovative Insights: AI success stories from the community

At the start of 2024, our community responded enthusiastically to our call out for standout examples showcasing AI use in education. Thank you to all who have shared so far. As we are working on compiling the online resource, we wanted to share some of the submissions we’ve received already. In this blog, we’ve included […]

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Establishing a Resource Hub for AI Success Stories in Education

Recent discussions with our community have emphasised the importance of sharing best practices and promoting successful examples of AI use in education. Following this feedback, we are looking to create a comprehensive resource, showcasing AI use from across Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) institutions that we hope will benefit our members.  We are […]

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Google Gemini – Initial Thoughts

  You may have picked up on some of the hype around Google’s Gemini last week, and some of the controversy over the slightly fake video.  They also released a 60-page technical report.  I thought it might be useful to pick up some of the key facts from the report, and some thoughts about what […]

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Generative AI and accessibility in education 

AI has long been integral to many assistive technologies, and we have seen over the course of this year that there is considerable exploration occurring around the use of generative AI to enhance accessibility in education. In this post we look at a few of the emerging uses we’ve seen as well as discussing some […]

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Assessment Menu: Designing assessment in an AI enabled world

The release of ChatGPT coincided with an environment of rising anxiety around academic integrity brought about by the move to online assessment post COVID.  This, at least, was the experience of my colleagues and I in the Digital Assessment Advisory at UCL and seemed to reflect concerns elsewhere. The result was, and remains, a demand […]

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Assessment Menu – list of sources

Assessment Menu – list of sources This source list relates to the Assesssment Menu resource available here – Click here to download the Assessment menu (.pptx). Suggestions are drawn from range of sources, largely Lydia Arnolds Top Trumps  and revised or AI-ed where appropriate by Isobel Bowditch. AI case studies. Adapted from Lydia Arnold AI […]

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AI Case Study: CENTURY

  While much of the discussion around AI is focused on its potential, in reality AI is already making an impact on the education sector. In this series of case studies, therefore, we aim to share insights into how universities and colleges are benefiting from some of the more established AI resources that are available. […]

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Generative AI: Lifeline for students or threat to traditional assessment?

Co-authored by Marieke Guy, Head of digital assessment, UCL and Chris Thomson, Jisc. As generative AI embeds itself into the world, understanding students’ perspective on what it means for their learning and assessment is more important than ever. We live in fast moving and concerning times. The leaders at our HE institutions have found themselves […]

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Interested in receiving formative feedback on your draft essays and dissertations on demand? Introducing Warwick’s “AI Essay-Analyst”

Harnessing recent progresses in the area of deep learning and Natural Language Progressing (NLP), Warwick Business School (WBS) and the University of Warwick recently developed in-house the “AI Essay-Analyst”, an academic-writing-tool that provides students with around 15 pages of formative feedback following voluntary submission of students’ essays or dissertations. Dr. Isabel Fischer, Associate Professor (Reader) […]