AI is playing a growing role in education, creating new opportunities for teaching, administration, and learning. Developing AI literacy is key to understanding its practical applications, limitations, and ethical considerations. To support staff, we offer a mix of live training sessions, flexible digital learning modules, and self-paced resources with activities and video demonstrations to help build confidence in using AI effectively and responsibly.
These training opportunities provide a range of ways to explore AI, from live sessions to independent learning and practical exercises.
Live training sessions
We run online live sessions throughout the year, covering various aspects of AI in education. New sessions are added regularly, so it is worth checking our Jisc training page for availability and booking. Alternatively, you can access the presentations or view the recordings.
About the training sessions:
- Getting started with generative AI in education – This session is designed to explore generative AI and its potential in education. We introduce the basics of AI, focusing on its practical applications and responsible use in educational settings.
- What is AI safety and why does it matter for education? – This session focuses on AI safety, its challenges, and best practices for responsible use in teaching, learning, and education.
- How can AI tools improve productivity? – Exploring AI tools for personal assistant tasks, enhancing workflow efficiency, improving communication, and considering environmental sustainability.
- Developing AI literacy for learners and students – Exploring how to build AI literacy, equipping students with the skills for an AI-driven future.
- What is the impact of AI on assessment in FE? – Exploring how AI is impacting assessment methods, considering fairness, and promoting critical thinking.
- AI for accessibility – Helping educators understand how to ensure AI accessibility, leverage its benefits effectively, and be aware of potential issues.
- Getting creative with AI – Explore AI’s role in art, music, writing, and design, with demonstrations using tools like Synthesia and DALL-E. Reflect on AI-assisted creativity, its capabilities, limitations, and responsible use in the creative process.
Digital learning modules
These short digital learning modules provide structured, self-paced learning and are delivered using our online course support functionality within Microsoft Teams. New places are released on the first of every month.
About the digital learning modules:
- Artificial intelligence and ethics – A 30-minute digital learning module exploring AI’s ethical implications and why it can feel both useful and unsettling. Through videos, articles, and exercises, it covers AI applications, societal concerns, and responsible AI use, helping participants reflect on their own AI interactions.
- An introduction to generative AI in education – A one-hour digital learning module designed to help educators understand generative AI technology and its impact on education. Through videos, research, and discussion forums, it explores AI tools, their role in teaching and learning, accessibility, and regulation.
Self-paced resources
We have developed a set of AI literacy resources to help both staff and learners develop their understanding of AI in education. These downloadable resources include practical guidance, activities, and video demonstrations. You can access these on our Explore AI page.
About the resources:
Staff resources
Our AI literacy resources provide practical guidance through downloadable materials and video demonstrations, helping staff build confidence in using AI effectively and responsibly across different roles in education.
- AI fundamentals – Explores key AI concepts, benefits, and challenges, including how AI systems are created, their applications in education, their limitations, and responsible use.
- Using AI as an assistant – Offers practical guides and video demonstrations on integrating generative AI into daily tasks. Covers email drafting, proofreading, glossary creation, FAQ generation, presentation planning, and summarising documents, with real-world scenarios, tool suggestions, and prompt tips.
- Using AI for teaching – Highlights ways generative AI can assist in creating content for teaching and assessment. Provides practical guides, examples, and video demonstrations, covering prompt tips for lesson planning, discussion topics, learning activities, multiple-choice questions, and assignment briefs.
- Using AI for LRC staff – Provides practical guides and video demonstrations on how AI can assist with research guides, study plans, workshop content, data visualisation, and FAQs. Includes real-world scenarios, tool suggestions, and prompt tips.
Learner resources
Last year, we formed a working group to identify key topics for AI literacy that learners and students need. Following this, we developed a set of AI literacy resources, which can be downloaded and adapted to suit different needs.
- Getting to understand artificial intelligence (AI) – Covers what AI is, how AI systems are created, their benefits and limitations, and includes an AI glossary and activities to reinforce learning.
- Using AI responsibly – Explores how learners can use AI ethically and responsibly, addressing data protection, copyright, and environmental concerns, with a responsible AI checklist and suggested activities to support learning.
- Using AI to support your education – Provides practical examples and activities on how learners can use generative AI as a supportive tool for tasks such as interview preparation, language translation, summarising, text-to-audio conversion, tone adjustment, and generating study examples, along with suggested AI tools and prompt tips.
Find out more by visiting our Artificial Intelligence page to view publications and resources, join us for events and discover what AI has to offer through our range of interactive online demos.
Join our AI in Education communities to stay up to date and engage with other members.
Get in touch with the team directly at AI@jisc.ac.uk