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Our First Artificial Intelligence Drop-In Clinic

At the start of May, we held our first Artificial Intelligence drop-in clinic. The session lasted for an hour and focused on providing a space to ask questions about AI in education. The drop-in clinics will run each month and complement our AI literacy series of monthly webinars. The idea is that you can simply […]

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Regulating the Future: AI and Governance

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the need for effective regulation has become more crucial than ever. As AI technologies continue to advance at an unprecedented pace, the ethical and societal implications of their deployment demand careful consideration and oversight. AI is revolutionising industries and reshaping the way we live and work, […]

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RAG: Can we stop LLMs making things up?

When ChatGPT was first released, there was (and perhaps still is) some confusion with what it was doing. We mostly got used to the fact that it was, in effect, a text prediction tool, albeit one trained on vast amounts of data, with often quite amazing abilities.  This meant that it was prone to making […]

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Initial thoughts on Microsoft Copilot for 365 (and AI FOMO)

  I thought I’d share some very initial thoughts on Copilot for Microsoft 365, as I’ve had it for a few weeks. It’s been fairly easy for people to try most of the AI tools. That’s not the case with Copilot for Microsoft 365, as it can only be purchased and enabled by central IT […]

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Staff Guidance for FE

Following on from our Learner Guidance for FE we’ve had lots of interest in the best way to provide advice to staff across all FE  institutions. In this blog post, we’ve created an example of staff advice for comment and feedback. Would this approach work for your institutions? What else would you like to see […]

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Artificial Intelligence drop-in clinic

To complement our AI Literacy sessions, we are running a series of monthly practical drop-in clinics. The idea is that you can simply drop in and ask questions about how to use AI tools and anything about the AI literacy training and future training needs. We will be running the drop-in clinics each month. The […]

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Navigating Excel with a Gen AI Tutor

We are often asked about how we integrate AI into our everyday tasks and how it helps us to work more efficiently. While generative AI serves various purposes, one helpful function we’ve discovered is its assistance in navigating Microsoft Excel, whether that be providing step by step guidance on formulas or describing complex tasks. For […]

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An introduction to copyright law and practice in education, and the concerns arising in the context of GenerativeAI

Introduction Legislation and developing case law will, in time, clarify the legal obligations for Generative Artificial Intelligence tool providers as well as for rightsholders and users. In the meantime, Generative AI is evolving rapidly and, as debate continues around its role within teaching, learning and assessment, the issue of ownership and of the laws of […]

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Considering image generation and education today

Image generation in everyday AI   In late 2022 we looked at what was available to try out image generation, we recommended a few popular demo tools to try including Hugging Face’s Stable Diffusion demo, Dream Studio and Dalle-2. As with text-generating tools, we’ve since seen a huge increase in both the capability and availability of […]

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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 […]