Navigating the impacts of generative AI on assessment remains a complex and evolving challenge. In discussing these issues it’s been recommended to encourage students to document the creation of their work. Saving conversation logs with generative AI tools or enabling tracked changes within their documents in order to help them demonstrate their use, or lack […]
Once again, we had a great turnout and lively discussion in our recent community meetup. We covered a few discussion points including: The first centred around how institutions capture and disseminate the use of AI within their teaching practices. Participants shared various approaches, highlighting the need for case studies and real-life examples of use in […]
We’ve recently been part of more and more discussions around the uses of Generative AI as, or in, Assistive Technology. Grammarly has emerged as a key tool in this discussion due to its unique combination of being a well-established assistive tool, with an existing student and learner userbase, available to users 16+, that has made […]
Over the last few months, we’ve had many conversations around generative AI for accessibility. These have been hugely positive and have highlighted many of the opportunities AI presents to make education a more accessible experience, which we’ve also explored in a previous blog. We’ve also become aware though that there are some emerging, and perhaps […]
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 […]
This guest post is authored by Nalina Brahim-Said. Nalina is a current master’s student at the University of Bolton focusing on inclusive education in the UK curriculum and integrating AI for SEN and neurodiversity. In the context of education in the UK, the pursuit of equity should be prioritised to ensure that all students have […]
Yesterday we had our first community meeting call, attended by an enthusiastic group of 68 members, setting a positive tone for the year ahead. Engaging Discussions in the Lean Coffee Format We embraced the Lean Coffee format, sparking three vibrant discussions that brought forward a variety of perspectives. Copyright Concerns A key topic of debate […]
AI has long been integral to many assistive technologies, and we have seen over the course of this year that there is considerable exploration occurring around the use of generative AI to enhance accessibility in education. In this post we look at a few of the emerging uses we’ve seen as well as discussing some […]
Co-authored by Marieke Guy, Head of digital assessment, UCL and Chris Thomson, Jisc. As generative AI embeds itself into the world, understanding students’ perspective on what it means for their learning and assessment is more important than ever. We live in fast moving and concerning times. The leaders at our HE institutions have found themselves […]
Automating transcriptions and captions is perhaps one of the most widespread uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in education today. When aiming to increase accessibility, these technologies— which frequently combine Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to produce text from audio —are a key focus. Indeed, the provision of captions for pre-recorded materials is a […]