(Note: updated 23rd Jan 2024 ) We’ve had lots of interest in the best way to provide advice to learners in colleges. One approach is to clearly seperate policies (which are more formal statements) from more friendly, learner facing advice. In this blog post we’ve created an example of learner advice for comment and feedback. […]
A series of guides part 4 of 4 Welcome to the concluding instalment of our Empowering Educators by Harnessing Generative AI tools. Google Bard was part of Google’s LaMDA family of large language models, Bard has undergone significant evolution, transitioning first to the PaLM model and subsequently to Gemini. Google Gemini is a multimodal tool, […]
A series of guides part 3 of 4 Welcome back to this blog post series Empowering Educators by Harnessing Generative AI Tools. In this blog post, we will look at another AI tool available created by Microsoft. We will look at Microsoft Copilot which recently had a name change from Microsoft Bing Chat Enterprise. This […]
A series of guides part 2 of 4 In this second chapter of the Empowering Educators by Harnessing Generative AI Tools: A series of guides, we build upon our introductory post where we looked at how to prompt. If you have not done so already, we’d recommend reading our first blog post Part 1 of […]
A series of guides part 1 of 4 Diving into AI tools can sometimes feel a bit daunting, to help, we’ve created a blog series that aims to empower educators by providing them with the knowledge they need to use these tools effectively. First, we will look at how to get the most from prompting. […]
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 […]
Legacy post: AI is a fast-moving technology and unfortunately this post now contains out-of-date information. The post is now available just for those that need to reference older articles. Generative AI is a part of AI that creates new content from text, images, or speech. You can use generative AI tools for many purposes. They […]
Version 1.1 – Updated 7/8/24 – First version published in November 2023 Following on from OpenAI’s Dev Day we wanted to showcase one of the major announcements from the conference, the introduction of GPTs. GPTs are custom versions of ChatGPT that allow you to combine skills, instructions, and knowledge to perform most tasks that you […]
AI has long been integral to many assistive technologies, and we have seen over the course of this year that there is considerable exploration occurring around the use of generative AI to enhance accessibility in education. In this post we look at a few of the emerging uses we’ve seen as well as discussing some […]
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, […]