This project is developing a ‘ground up’ model for AI in education based on direct teaching need, as an alternative to enterprise-level, ‘top down’ AI services. It puts capacity in the hands of academic teams to create AI apps specific to their discipline and their courses.
It asks: How might generative AI help us develop new and interesting ways to teach differently?
The project aims to develop our capacity as an institution to think widely and creatively about human/machine partnerships in education, while supporting staff skills development and capacity for working with AI in their teaching and assessment.
It’s a partnership between the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) and the Moray House School of Education and Sport and multiple teams across all three Colleges of the University.
The project is led by Prof Sian Bayne (Assistant Principal Education Futures) and Javier Tejera (Senior Learning Design and Technology Advisor in EFI).
The project is working with eighteen groups across many disciplines in order to create and research custom apps for use in live teaching contexts.
All the apps can be used by anyone with a University of Edinburgh staff or student login, and can be seen here:
