Yesterday we had our first community meeting call, attended by an enthusiastic group of 68 members, setting a positive tone for the year ahead. Engaging Discussions in the Lean Coffee Format We embraced the Lean Coffee format, sparking three vibrant discussions that brought forward a variety of perspectives. Copyright Concerns A key topic of debate […]
In the Jisc AI Team, we’re pleased to announce the launch of a second-year-long TeacherMatic pilot. We are currently piloting this with eight Further Education Colleges, and the initial feedback is very positive, particularly around saving time. We would now like to explore how well this translates to higher education so would like to work […]
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 […]
About The Jisc AI Team’s program of pilots The Jisc AI Team aims to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in education. One of the ways the team is achieving this is by leading a series of pilots, allowing Jisc members to gain direct experience of implementing AI, whilst enabling Jisc’s AI Team to […]
This year, we kicked off the academic year with our attendance and stand at ALT-C hosted at the University of Warwick. We had a stand for the Jisc AI Team to showcase our AI demos sparking numerous intriguing debates and conversations and received some great feedback. Overall we spoke to around 88 people over the […]
We’ve had a few member institutions contact us to ask for updated advice on AI detection software. This includes asking about recommendations for alternatives to Turnitin, so we thought it would be useful to produce some updated information. First, the information in our previous blog post ‘AI writing detectors – concepts and considerations’ still holds, […]
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 […]
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 […]
For educators, AI skills and knowledge have gone from a luxury to a necessity, seemingly overnight. To help you stay ahead of the curve, the Jisc AI Team are developing a suite of short and concise training modules, covering a range of the most relevant topics. In this blog, we’ll introduce you to […]
Jisc’s AI Team has teamed up with TeacherMatic to run a yearlong pilot to evaluate the use of the generative AI tool to create teaching and learning content. We have just wrapped up phase one, which started late May 2023, in collaboration with eight further education colleges: Basingstoke College of Technology, Milton Keynes College, New […]