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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 […]

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Advice and Guidance

An introduction to copyright law and practice in education, and the concerns arising in the context of GenerativeAI

Introduction Legislation and developing case law will, in time, clarify the legal obligations for Generative Artificial Intelligence tool providers as well as for rightsholders and users. In the meantime, Generative AI is evolving rapidly and, as debate continues around its role within teaching, learning and assessment, the issue of ownership and of the laws of […]

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Advice and Guidance

Considering image generation and education today

Image generation in everyday AI   In late 2022 we looked at what was available to try out image generation, we recommended a few popular demo tools to try including Hugging Face’s Stable Diffusion demo, Dream Studio and Dalle-2. As with text-generating tools, we’ve since seen a huge increase in both the capability and availability of […]

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Advice and Guidance

Our AI in Education Maturity Model – an update for 2024

One of first outputs our AI team produced, first released in March 2021, was our ‘AI in education maturity model’ –  a tool to frame conversations about institutions journey on adopting AI. The model has proven useful, but obviously an awful lot has happened in the world of AI since then. When we first created […]

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Advice and Guidance

Principles for the use of AI in FE colleges

Artificial intelligence is already transforming education, the workplace, and society.   These principles have been created by Jisc in partnership with the Association of Colleges (AoC) Technology Reference Group. They are intended for colleges to adopt as a statement of intent, guiding strategic direction. They aim to help colleges navigate challenges and maximising the opportunities […]

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Guiding Your AI Journey: Essential Resources

We thought it would be useful to pull our resources together in a more structured way to support different stages of AI maturity.  Our aim is to develop a dynamic web based easy-to-use toolkit that grows with your needs.  Initially we are sharing in blog format mapped to both support areas and maturity stage.   The […]

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Advice and Guidance Examples of AI in education

Voice cloning, AI twins and deepfakes: threat or useful tool? Or both?

We are all becoming increasingly aware of the challenges around AI deepfakes.  With elections looming this year, there are many concerns about how it might impact the outcomes. Every week we are hearing new and disturbing stories.  I was in a conversation with some parents who were considering using safe words so their family would […]

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AI in Education Community

Discussing Learner AI Guidance with the FE community

On Tuesday 27th February, we had our third community meeting. We had a great group who joined us for an insightful discussion around how to provide learners with guidance around AI. The first half of our session was led by AI Technologist, James Hodgkinson, who began with a poll, asking whether their institutions had produced […]

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AI in Education Community

HE Community Feb 2024

We’ve now got our standard meeting format in place – Lean Coffee discussion for the first 20 minutes and a focused discussion for the final 25 minutes. For the February Lean coffee we managed to discuss two topics: Approved/approving AI tools within institutions: The discussion focused on the challenges and strategies involved in approving AI […]

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Examples of AI in education

What AI skills will learners need?

Context This post shares the key findings from a series of staff development workshops delivered at a further education college in the north of England. In the workshop, we asked staff what they understood about how artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to impact the skills required by industry in the future. A range of curriculum […]