This pilot is part of our wider AI in Assessment Pilot for 2025–26. If you haven’t already, we recommend starting with the AI in Assessment Pilot blog to understand the context of the overarching project. In this blog, you’ll find out: About Graide What the pilot will involve What’s expected of pilot participants About Graide […]
This pilot is part of our wider AI in Assessment Pilot for 2025–26. If you haven’t already, we recommend starting with the AI in Assessment Pilot blog to understand the context of the overarching project. In this blog, you’ll find out: About TeacherMatic What the pilot will involve What’s expected of pilot participants About TeacherMatic TeacherMatic […]
Educators are under growing pressure — and many are exploring how AI tools might help them save time whilst maintaining or enhancing their impact. Marking and feedback are essential but time-intensive parts of the education process. As such we’re launching a new project to help the sector explore how AI can support staff and reduce […]
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 We leave posts that have been superseded in place as a historical record.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 […]
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 completed in the Spring of this year. The survey asks several questions about the perception of Jisc, our services and the […]
Our April collection of articles and announcements to share this month. Accessibility Bananas Rubber Ducks and AI: How generative conversational and agentic AI can support neurodivergent people. AI is changing everything. But for disabled and neurodivergent people, the changes aren’t just interesting; they’re personal. Artificial Intelligence, British Sign Language and the British Deaf Association A […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]