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Teachermatic Pilot Launch

We’re excited to announce the launch of a new pilot, in which FE institutions will get the chance to use the AI platform Teachermatic. Teachermatic is a tool that uses generative AI to help teachers create resources and teaching materials. The aim of Teachermatic is to make educators lives easier by leveraging AI tools. The […]

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A Generative AI Primer

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.  We aim to publish this as a more formal guide that will be updated regularly, but […]

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AI outside of education 

  In this blog we explore the use of AI across a few very different sectors – Museums & Galleries, Recruitment, Air travel, and Banking. The purpose is to see how other sectors, each at their own stages of AI maturity, are innovating with the same types of AI tools which we are exploring the […]

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AI in Education: Here and Now

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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AnyWyse pilot launched: seeking FE colleges to pilot AI for developing engaging audio content

The team at the national centre for AI in tertiary education are pleased to announce that we will be piloting AI platform Anywyse with FE colleges. Anywyse empowers educators to produce engaging audio-based learning material (called ‘Wysers’) for their students. Through the use of AI, existing learning materials – workbooks, reading materials, exercises, etc– can […]

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Means. Motive, Opportunity: A Composite Narrative about Academic Misconduct

Academic misconduct seems to have been brought into sharp relief over the last few months with a huge amount of hyperbole around large language models, or “generative AI”. Probably the most talked about was the arrival of ChatGPT3 just before Christmas 2022, social channels quickly lit up with discussions about how it will disrupt education, […]

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AI writing detectors – concepts and considerations

  There has been much discussion of the role of AI writing detectors. The issue has become more urgent for us with Turnitin announcing the imminent release of an AI detector.  At the moment we’ve very little information about the Turnitin offering, other than the detail in the press release, where it claims 97% accuracy […]

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Getting started with ChatGPT Part 4: Feedback on your writing

So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to start? This is the fourth in a short series of blog posts giving some pointers on how to start. If you’ve not done so already, we’d recommend reading the first blog before you get started, where we cover some of […]

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Getting Started with ChatGPT Part 3 – Quizzes

So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to start? This is the third in a short series of blog posts giving some pointers on how to get going. If you’ve not done so already, we’d recommend reading the first blog before you get started, where we cover some […]

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Getting Started with ChatGPT Part 2 – Drafting Lesson Plans etc

So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to start? This is the second in a short series of blog posts giving some pointers on how to get going. If you’ve not done so already, we’d recommend reading the first blog before you get started, where we cover some […]