This month we welcomed two guest speakers, Klaudia Adamczyk, Lecturer in ESOL Partnerships at West Thames College and Bryony Evett Hackfort, Director of teaching, learning and education at Coleg Sir Gâr/ Coleg Ceredigion. Unfortunately, due to technical issues Klaudia’s presentation couldn’t be delivered fully during the session. We are looking forward to welcoming her back […]
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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 […]
OpenAI have built their most advanced image generator yet into GPT-4o, which ‘excels at accurately rendering text, precisely following prompts, and leveraging 4o’s inherence knowledge base and chat context’. This was of immediate interest, as we recently wrapped up our image generation pilot. The pilot revealed promising use cases, however, a few recurring limitations emerged. […]
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Farewell ExploreAI!
In the dim and distant past (well, about 5 years ago), there was a time when very few people working in education were interested in AI. And if they were, most people only had the vaguest of understanding on what it could do – either vastly overestimating what was possible, almost seeing it as akin […]
Figure 1 – Andrew’s examples of how applications of facial recognition fit into his Creepiness Matrix When Jisc’s self-paced Artificial Intelligence and Ethics course was first launched back in 2021, ChatGPT hadn’t yet appeared on the scene. OpenAI was still a niche name. Generative AI tools weren’t generating headlines—or policies. So you’d be forgiven […]
I had a few spare minutes in the morning before Digifest a couple of weeks ago, before breakfast and the conference start, so I wrote a quick LinkedIn post around writing tracking. It clearly resonated judging by the responses, so I thought I’d share it here, and reflect a little on the responses. My original […]
This is a legacy post, aimed at our members and discussing information that was widely available at the time. We leave posts that have been superseded in place as a historical record. For the latest information on AI and the environment, we recommend the United Nations University’s Environmental Cost of AI Energy Use (June 2026) […]
I spoke at a couple of events last year where I reflected on the trends, successes, and failures of the previous 12 months. As part of this, I briefly looked at some of the main LLMs and how they had developed over the previous 12 months. I focused on the models most of us are […]
Our March collection of articles and announcements to share this month. Education Digital Education Council Global AI Faculty Survey 2025 offers insights into how faculty use and perceive AI in higher education, assessing their awareness, readiness for AI integration, and views on institutional AI policies. How will AI reshape academic employment? The rise of AI […]
In our most recent Further Education community meetup, we welcomed Ryan Molyneux, Head of Digital Learning at Gloucestershire College. Ryan presented ‘Beyond the hype: Practical AI Strategies for Further Education’, sharing valuable insights into the college’s approach to AI adoption, collaboration, and governance. During the session, Ryan emphasised the value of building a collaborative network […]