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Advice and Guidance

Our AI in Education Maturity Model – an update for 2024

One of first outputs our AI team produced, first released in March 2021, was our ‘AI in education maturity model’ –  a tool to frame conversations about institutions journey on adopting AI. The model has proven useful, but obviously an awful lot has happened in the world of AI since then. When we first created […]

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Advice and Guidance

Principles for the use of AI in FE colleges

Artificial intelligence is already transforming education, the workplace, and society.   These principles have been created by Jisc in partnership with the Association of Colleges (AoC) Technology Reference Group. They are intended for colleges to adopt as a statement of intent, guiding strategic direction. They aim to help colleges navigate challenges and maximising the opportunities […]

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Advice and Guidance Examples of AI in education

Voice cloning, AI twins and deepfakes: threat or useful tool? Or both?

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 […]

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Examples of AI in education

Licensing Options for Generative AI

(note: updated 16 Dec 2023 and 16th Jan 2024 to take into account recent Microsoft Announcements, and 4th March 2024 to update details about Google Gemini) We are getting a lot of questions about licensing options for generative AI tools, so we thought it would be useful to summarise the current situation.  It’s fair to […]

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Advice and Guidance

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.  This blog post will be updated as needed, and we have also produced a version as […]

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Announcements

Some news! A change of name.

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 […]

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Product Pilots

Pilots going forward

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 […]

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Examples of AI in education

Google Gemini – Initial Thoughts

  You may have picked up on some of the hype around Google’s Gemini last week, and some of the controversy over the slightly fake video.  They also released a 60-page technical report.  I thought it might be useful to pick up some of the key facts from the report, and some thoughts about what […]

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Advice and Guidance

AI Detection – Latest Recommendations

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, […]

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Product Pilots

Reflections and outcomes from our chatbot pilots

Introduction We’ve just finished our extended chatbot pilots, started in 2022, in collaboration with Bolton College.  A lot has changed in the world of chatbots since we started, particularly with the release of ChatGPT.  We think a lot more is going to change over the next year as well. The chatbot pilots were well received, […]