Senior AI Specialist at The National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education
For educators, AI skills and knowledge have gone from a luxury to a necessity, seemingly overnight. To help you stay ahead of the curve, the Jisc AI Team are developing a suite of short and concise training modules, covering a range of the most relevant topics. In this blog, we’ll introduce you to […]
While much of the discussion around AI is focused on its potential, in reality AI is already making an impact on the education sector. In this series of case studies, therefore, we aim to share insights into how universities and colleges are benefiting from some of the more established AI resources that are available. […]
About the AI team’s programme of pilots The AI team at Jisc aims to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in education. One of the ways the team is achieving this is by leading a series of pilots, allowing Jisc members to gain direct experience of implementing AI, whilst enabling the AI team to […]
The AI team 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 be transformed into exciting, podcast-style modules, thus expanding […]
On Friday 27th January 2023, Jisc’s national centre for AI in education were joined by Dr Andrew Cox (University of Sheffield), Neil Dixon (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr Tim Coughlan (Open University), who co-delivered an absorbing webinar on the topic of chatbots. Andrew and Neil kicked off the session with an interactive workshop, where participants […]
We firmly believe that artificial intelligence can transform education for the better. But we are also aware that for AI to be a force for good, it must be used in a responsible way. The environmental impacts of AI are hence of paramount importance. In this blog, we introduce some of the key issues around […]
Highlighting innovation AI is sometimes thought of as a futuristic technology, the impacts of which are far from imminent. In the tertiary education sector, however, this is definitely not the case. Many colleges and universities across the UK are currently harnessing AI to enhance teaching and learning, improve the student experience, and increase productivity – […]
At the Jisc AI Team, we have recently launched the first instalment in our Podcast mini-series, AI in Education: Pedagogy First. In this first episode, I spoke with Scott Hayden, Head of Digital Learning at Basingstoke College of Technology about how he and his team are using AI to support personalised learning. Through talking with […]
At the Jisc AI Team we’re piloting a number of promising AI solutions. As well as allowing us to evaluate different solutions, running these pilots gives us an opportunity to learn more about how to develop and deploy AI effectively. In this blog series – Chatbot Pilots: Learning Together – we want to give members […]
Introducing AI into the assessment process could bring about numerous advantages. In the sphere of formative assessment, using AI to partially automate the process of marking and giving feedback could make educators’ workloads more manageable. Meanwhile for high-stakes assessment, AI could provide an alternative to summative examinations, which, it has been argued, are not always […]