In this month’s Further Education community meetup, we welcomed Kim Blanchard, Group Head of Digital Education Development and AI, and Patrick Kelly-Goss, Group AI and Innovation Specialist from Activate Learning. They shared their institution’s impressive journey in developing and implementing AI tools to support both staff and students while maintaining a strong focus on ethical […]
In our final Further Education community session of 2024, we were joined by Bryony Evett Hackfort, Director of Teaching, Learning and Education at Coleg Sir Gȃr | Coleg Ceredigion. Bryony presented ‘‘To AI or not to AI’ The story so far”, sharing insights into her college’s ongoing journey with AI, and highlighting their focus on an […]
In November, as part of a week of engagement for Jisc’s accessibility and assistive technology communities, we held a discussion session to consider current issues around AI use in assessment and the impacts on assistive technology users. Our aim was to bring the AI, accessibility and assistive technology communities together to hear about current experiences […]
For our November AI in FE session, we were joined by Adam Leeson, Lead Quality Practitioner in Digital Pedagogy from SMB Group. Adam led an interactive and insightful session on developing AI literacy. Taking us through their journey to developing staff and learner AI literacy through practical steps like creating policies, staff training, and learner […]
Navigating the impacts of generative AI on assessment remains a complex and evolving challenge. In discussing these issues it’s been recommended to encourage students to document the creation of their work. Saving conversation logs with generative AI tools or enabling tracked changes within their documents in order to help them demonstrate their use, or lack […]
We’ve recently been part of more and more discussions around the uses of Generative AI as, or in, Assistive Technology. Grammarly has emerged as a key tool in this discussion due to its unique combination of being a well-established assistive tool, with an existing student and learner userbase, available to users 16+, that has made […]
Our last community meetup session of the year took place on the 4th July with around 30 members taking part. We engaged in some excellent discussions around the way approaches and perceptions to AI have changed over this academic year in FE, and considered priorities for the new year. We kicked off the meetup by […]
Over the last few months, we’ve had many conversations around generative AI for accessibility. These have been hugely positive and have highlighted many of the opportunities AI presents to make education a more accessible experience, which we’ve also explored in a previous blog. We’ve also become aware though that there are some emerging, and perhaps […]
This month’s AI in FE community sessions were all about sharing approaches to generative AI use in FE. Coleg Sir Gar’s Generative AI Journey For the first part of the sessions, we were joined by Bryony Evett, from Coleg Sir Gar, who shared their institution’s evolving journey with generative AI. They have developed their approach […]
For this month’s AI in FE community meetups we held two sessions, both focused around AI for Accessibility and were joined by members of over 30 FE institutions from across the UK. We began with some scene setting discussing the existing role AI has played in key assistive technologies and the developing role of generative […]