AI for L&T Symposium

The most recent AILTC Symposium was held on April 17, 2024.

The videos and information shared below are segments from the Symposium - allowing for distinct viewing of each presenter. AI resources are are shared throughout.

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Resources:

• Session slides
• Full recording (unedited 1.5 hour session)

At the Symposium Dr Julie Lindsay shared a new initiative, the 'AI Pedagogy Project: Augmenting learning and teaching in higher education through the use of Artificial Intelligence'.

Under this umbrella we plan to run monthly meetings and focus on Education Plan priorities including reimagining assessment.

• Read more about this initiative HERE.

• Fill in this FORM to join

• First meeting will be in May, 2024

Nici spoke about the challenges of evolving AI use in higher education, with a focus on reimagining assessment approaches, and raised a number of important issues and key considerations.

Key Takeaways:

• AI Literacy is key.
• Clear and transparent guidelines for staff and students are required.
• Assessment reform needs to happen at scale, now.
• There is a huge opportunity for creativity and innovation.
• AI is not the enemy.

Resources from the session:

• Slides from the session
• AI Her Way website
• Paper: Working Smarter: A strategic framework for Generative AI implementation and regulation in Australian Universities, Tim Winkler and Dr Nici Sweaney, Feb 2024.
• Website: There’s an AI For That – Aggregator of AI Tools and Apps, lists over 12,000 currently.
• Tool: NextAssess – a tool that transforms assessments for the new technological era. (Will be available to individuals and institutions soon.)

Watch the recording of Nici's presentation below.

Douglas is the Senior Lecturer (Researcher Development & Applied Artificial Intelligence) and Learning Advisor (Higher Degree by Research) based in the UniSQ library. His research is shared in this presentation with a focus on the ethical and effective use of AI in education.

There is much to learn from the wisdom in what he calls the 'Principles of E.T.H.I.C.A.L AI use'.

Resources:

• Slides from the session
• Recording below

In her short presentation, Nikki, Manager (Digital Experience) in the UniSQ Library, Nikki, discusses the pros and cons of AI for disability inclusion. On one hand it offers enormous opportunities and expands possibilities for accommodation. However there are risks and pitfalls to be aware of and how they can disadvantage disabled people.

Resources:

• Slides from the session
• Goblin Tools - a versatile tool to organise, search, compile and more. Reduces cognitive load.
• Recording below

Leading the way as always, Dianne takes this opportunity to update us on her research project, 'ChatGPT for Assessment'.

Recording below.

Dr Lisa Jacka demonstrated how to access and some of the uses for copilot. The UniSQ licence doesn’t include access to using Copilot to assist with documents etc in 365. The main feature is as a Generative Text tool.

Resources:

• Recording below
• ICT update (below recording)

On April 17, ICT released this information about copilot use and access for the university.

There’s a lot of interest around generative AI chat and used responsibly it can be a great tool to assist staff to be more creative and productive.

Copilot chat is enabled as UniSQ’s AI chat solution because it offers the power of GPT-4 with commercial data protection, including:

• Chat data is not saved – Chat prompts and responses are discarded, not even Microsoft can view organisational data
• No eyes-on access – No one can see your data
• Data is not used to train the external model – Chat data is not used to train the underlying large language models used by AI, preventing data leakage.

So, if you do choose to use a ChatGPT style system, please ensure you only use Copilot chat.

All browsers:

1. Go to https://copilot.unisq.edu.au/
2. Make sure you are signed into you UniSQ Office 365 account
3. Check you see the green ‘Protected’ indicator in the top right hand corner

Dr Lisa Jacka provided a brief overview of an exciting Australian made AI tool called 'Cogniti'. This provides for customised or tailored AI approaches e.g., HEA specific chat and information. Watch this space for more to come in this area.

Resources:

• Cogniti
• Recording below

The AILTC Padlet is the place to go for resources. These are categorised by background colour:

• Green = Higher Education,
• Red = Tools,
• Bronze = Videos,
• Black = Articles & Blog Posts,
• Blue = Resources & Training
  

This is YOUR Padlet also! Please contribute when you find a great resource.

Contact us in the UniSQ Learning and Teaching Futures Portfolio:

• Dr Julie Lindsay, Senior Education Technology Advisor
• Dr Lisa Jacka, Senior Lecturer, Curriculum & Pedagogy