Senior AI Specialist at The National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education
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 […]
This is a legacy post, aimed at our members and discussing information that was widely available at the time. We leave posts that have been superseded in place as a historical record. For the latest information on AI and the environment, we recommend the United Nations University’s Environmental Cost of AI Energy Use (June 2026) […]
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 […]
For this instalment of the AI in Education: Here and Now series, we hear from Petroc College on how they are harnessing artificial intelligence to improve outcomes for students Petroc College’s leap into using AI in education began in 2019 when a Digital Leaders programme brought a focus and confidence to the College’s embrace of […]