About The Jisc AI Team’s program of pilots The Jisc AI Team aims to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in education. One of the ways the team is achieving this is by leading a series of pilots, allowing Jisc members to gain direct experience of implementing AI, whilst enabling Jisc’s AI Team to […]
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Introducing new AI training courses
For educators, AI skills and knowledge have gone from a luxury to a necessity, seemingly overnight. To help you stay ahead of the curve, the Jisc AI Team are developing a suite of short and concise training modules, covering a range of the most relevant topics. In this blog, we’ll introduce you to […]
Jisc’s AI Team has teamed up with TeacherMatic to run a yearlong pilot to evaluate the use of the generative AI tool to create teaching and learning content. We have just wrapped up phase one, which started late May 2023, in collaboration with eight further education colleges: Basingstoke College of Technology, Milton Keynes College, New […]
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TeacherMatic Pilot Launch
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new pilot, in which FE institutions will get the chance to use the AI platform Teachermatic. TeacherMatic is a tool that uses generative AI to help teachers create resources and teaching materials. The aim of Teachermatic is to make educators lives easier by leveraging AI tools. The […]
The AI team are pleased to announce that we will be piloting AI platform Anywyse with FE colleges. Anywyse empowers educators to produce engaging audio-based learning material (called ‘Wysers’) for their students. Through the use of AI, existing learning materials – workbooks, reading materials, exercises, etc– can be transformed into exciting, podcast-style modules, thus expanding […]
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Student Voice Pilot – Call for participants
This year we are partnering with Student Voice to conduct a pilot evaluating their service which uses AI to provide analysis of student feedback for institutions. We are accepting expressions of interest to take part in this pilot until 10/03/2023. Please read through this post to find out whether this pilot could be the right […]
Highlighting innovation AI is sometimes thought of as a futuristic technology, the impacts of which are far from imminent. In the tertiary education sector, however, this is definitely not the case. Many colleges and universities across the UK are currently harnessing AI to enhance teaching and learning, improve the student experience, and increase productivity – […]
At the Jisc AI Team, we have recently launched the first instalment in our Podcast mini-series, AI in Education: Pedagogy First. In this first episode, I spoke with Scott Hayden, Head of Digital Learning at Basingstoke College of Technology about how he and his team are using AI to support personalised learning. Through talking with […]
*The Bodyswaps Roadshow has now been completed, read about the results of this pilot here.* Overview For this pilot we are partnering with Bodyswaps, creators of VR and AI experiences, to run a pilot that will evaluate the effectiveness of the feedback given by their modules to students. Bodyswaps leverages VR and AI to empower learners to practice […]
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Assisted STEM feedback pilot launches
We are launching a free and fully supported pilot to help Jisc and its members understand how universities could benefit from using AI to support the marking and feedback process. We are partnering with Graide, an EdTech company who have built an AI-based feedback and assessment tool. Please read the information below carefully. If you’re interested […]