This academic year, a key focus for Jisc’s AI team is understanding AI’s potential to support marking and feedback. We’re currently running a series of pilots, exploring the impacts of education focused platforms (Graide and TeacherMatic) and general purpose AI tools (including Microsoft Copilot, Chat GPT and Gemini) – more information about these pilots […]
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Executive summary Over more than 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of working across three universities and two national sector bodies, both in the UK and internationally. This experience has given me a broad perspective on higher education and its many challenges. Yet throughout that time, I have not seen disruption and potential—both positive and […]
This academic year, a key focus for Jisc’s AI team is understanding AI’s potential to support marking and feedback. We’re currently running three parallel pilots of AI solutions (Keath, Graide and TeacherMatic). And we will soon be launching a project in which we’ll be evaluating the impact that general-purpose AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT and […]
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LearnWise End of Pilot Report
AI Pilots at Jisc A key area of the AI team’s work is running pilots of promising AI tools and products with Jisc members. These pilots provide our members with the opportunity to gain direct experience with AI-assisted tools, and the results provide valuable insights, which are shared with the sector. Quicklinks About the project […]
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TeacherMatic HE Pilot Report
In 2023, Jisc partnered with TeacherMatic to explore how AI-driven tools can enhance teaching productivity in higher education. Following a successful pilot in the Further Education (FE) sector, a new pilot was launched with seven Higher Education (HE) institutions to assess TeacherMatic’s ability to support teaching across different disciplines. This blog post provides an overview […]
In my role as an educator, I have witnessed firsthand the rapid evolution of technology and its profound impact on the design and fashion manufacturing sectors. One of the most exciting developments in recent years is the advent of generative AI (GenAI). GenAI is transforming the fashion industry, from product creation to trend forecasting, retail, […]
Updated 04/04/2025. Initially published 31/07/2024 we have reviewed, added and updated the resources. In our previous blog, we highlighted the transformative potential of generative AI in Higher Education (HE) and called for examples of AI policies and guidance from the HE sector. The response has been fantastic, and we are excited to share more examples […]
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AI and Jisc’s Leadership Survey
Each year at Jisc we run a leadership survey, which is sent to leaders in HE and FE, with responses from vice-chancellors and principals, technology and library strategic leaders and more. The latest was sent during the spring of this year. The survey asks several questions about the perception of Jisc and our services, the […]
About Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence Program of Pilots Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence team provides resources and guidance to facilitate the ethical and effective adoption of AI across the sector. A key area of the team’s work is running pilots of promising AI tools and products with Jisc members. These pilots provide members with the opportunity to gain […]
Following our pilot of TeacherMatic with eight Further Education (FE) colleges, we decided to explore its potential within the Higher Education (HE) sector. In early 2024, we launched a new pilot with seven universities: University College Birmingham, Stranmillis University College, University of Chester, University of East Anglia, University of Strathclyde, University of Sunderland and University […]