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AI Procurement Due Diligence

Why AI Due Diligence is Crucial for Education and Research Artificial intelligence (AI) holds immense potential to revolutionize the educational landscape by enhancing teaching methods, personalizing learning experiences, and streamlining administrative tasks. These advancements can lead to more effective learning environments, tailored educational pathways for students, and more efficient operations within educational institutions. However, the […]

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Product Notes – Tutello

In the Jisc AI team we spend a lot of our time exploring different AI tools and services, assessing their potential to enhance education. With that in mind we have launched Product Notes, a new blog series, to share our knowledge and findings with all of our members. In each entry, we’ll be looking in-depth […]

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Product Notes – Blackboard Learn Ultra AI Design Assistant

About Anthology Blackboard Anthology was created through the merger of four of the world’s leading education technology companies: Blackboard, Campus Management, Campus Labs, and iModules. For more information, you can visit their About Us page. This product note will explore how Blackboard® Learn Ultra has incorporated generative AI to enhance course creation. We will examine […]

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Guidance on resisting restrictive AI clauses in licences

Over the last six months Jisc Licensing has been negotiating with publishers and providers of online content seeking to include clauses in our licences that restrict the use of their content in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Jisc believes that AI, when used responsibly, can be a legitimate tool to enable learning, teaching and research, which […]

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Generative AI as, or in, Assistive Technology

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 […]

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Copilot 365 Teams meeting summary

I’m starting this blog with an admission: this is my favourite feature so far of Copilot365.  For some reason, and even I don’t understand why, I have a real passion for making a page of my notepad last as long as possible and writing minimal notes, in random places on the current page.  The current […]

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Insights from the Microsoft 365 Copilot ‘Prompt-a-thon’ Roundtable

I recently attended the Microsoft 365 Copilot ‘Prompt-a-thon’ roundtable, an event that provided insight into the potential of Copilot 365 within the public sector at their office in London. A few of us on the team have licenses for Copilot 365 and have been giving it a go in our day-to-day work (read Michael’s thoughts […]

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AI Literacy Training Series for Inset Training Weeks in June

With the ever-changing world of AI, it is difficult to keep up and stay on top of the changes. To help, we have put together a series of 5 webinars to explore Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in education. We understand that the last few weeks of the term can offer a bit of breathing space […]

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Etiquette for AI meeting note-taking services

Our team love AI meeting note-taking tools! We have access to them via Microsoft Copilot for 365, and it’s probably our favourite and most useful feature – it does a fantastic job of summarising key points and actions. We’re increasingly seeing AI services such as Otter and Firefly added to meetings, and understandably this is […]

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Some thoughts on Google’s recent AI for Education work

Google’s  Generative AI work has perhaps tended to slip a little under the radar, at least in discussions I’ve been involved in, which have tended to focus on ChatGPT and Copilot.  They have just put out a lot of new info though, including, for me, probably the most interesting paper on LLMs in education for […]