We are pleased to announce that our pilot of FeedbackFruits has officially begun, and participants are now using the platform to support students’ academic writing skills and feedback literacy via AI-powered feedback. The pilot runs until June 2024. Having received tailored training from FeedbackFruits on how to use and deploy the platform effectively, the institutions […]
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Jamworks pilot: Initial stages
We are pleased to announce that our pilot of Jamworks, an innovative platform which uses generative AI to produce transcripts, notes and additional resources from lecture recordings, has officially begun. We had a huge amount of interest in this pilot and want to thank all institutions who took the time to apply. Several institutions have […]
Some news! A change of name.
Some news! We’ve decided to simplify how we describe our work, so we are going to retire the name ‘National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education’. The name has served us well, especially as it describes exactly what we do, but much has changed since we formed the team nearly three years ago. At the […]
Pilots going forward
We’d like to share some thoughts about the way forward with pilots. First, we’d like to thank everyone who’s expressed interest or taken part – they have been every bit as successful as we hoped, and then some. They have proven to be extremely popular – almost too popular. we are now getting way more […]
Update with more sessions – 18th March 2024 With the ever-chaining world of AI it is difficult to keep up and stay on top of the changes, so we have put together a series of 5 webinars to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education. The series will focus on what generative AI is and how […]
Jamworks Pilot Launch
We are excited to announce the launch of our next pilot project, in which colleges and universities will get the chance to use Jamworks – a platform that uses AI to transform lecture recordings into well organised notes and interactive study materials – between January and May 2024. We are now encouraging expressions of interest […]
Recent discussions with our community have emphasised the importance of sharing best practices and promoting successful examples of AI use in education. Following this feedback, we are looking to create a comprehensive resource, showcasing AI use from across Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) institutions that we hope will benefit our members. We are […]
Kicking off our HE TeacherMatic Pilot
Jisc’s AI Team has again teamed up with TeacherMatic. This time we want to investigate how the generative AI tool TeacherMatic works with our Higher Education members. The aim is to evaluate how the use of the generative AI tool can be used to create teaching and learning content and reduce workload. At the start […]
FeedbackFruits Pilot Launch
We are excited to inform you of the launch of our next pilot project, in which colleges and universities will get the chance to use FeedbackFruits – a platform that uses AI to improve students’ academic and professional writing styles by automating feedback on structural elements like citation, academic style, grammar, and structure, leaving teachers […]
HE TeacherMatic Pilot Launch
In the Jisc AI Team, we’re pleased to announce the launch of a second-year-long TeacherMatic pilot. We are currently piloting this with eight Further Education Colleges, and the initial feedback is very positive, particularly around saving time. We would now like to explore how well this translates to higher education so would like to work […]