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 […]
We are all becoming increasingly aware of the challenges around AI deepfakes. With elections looming this year, there are many concerns about how it might impact the outcomes. Every week we are hearing new and disturbing stories. I was in a conversation with some parents who were considering using safe words so their family would […]
Publishing an intro to generative AI is a challenge as things are moving so quickly. However, we think things have now settled down enough for us to bring together information in a single place, to create a short primer. This blog post will be updated as needed, and we have also produced a version as […]
On Tuesday 27th February, we had our third community meeting. We had a great group who joined us for an insightful discussion around how to provide learners with guidance around AI. The first half of our session was led by AI Technologist, James Hodgkinson, who began with a poll, asking whether their institutions had produced […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some news! We’ve decided to simplify how we describe our work, so we are going to retire the name ‘National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education’. The name has served us well, especially as it describes exactly what we do, but much has changed since we formed the team nearly three years ago. At the […]
We’d like to share some thoughts about the way forward with pilots. First, we’d like to thank everyone who’s expressed interest or taken part – they have been every bit as successful as we hoped, and then some. They have proven to be extremely popular – almost too popular. we are now getting way more […]
Update with more sessions – 18th March 2024 With the ever-chaining world of AI it is difficult to keep up and stay on top of the changes, so we have put together a series of 5 webinars to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education. The series will focus on what generative AI is and how […]
Two months ago, OpenAI announced the launch of GPT’s (Generative Pre-trained Transformers), custom versions of ChatGPT powered by its text- and image-generating AI models (e.g. GPT 4 & Dalle 3). These tools allow users to combine skills, instructions and knowledge to perform most tasks within the limitations of a large language model. We covered the […]