Helping navigate Gen AI with you
We know that the big implications of Generative AI in education are challenging to navigate. So we’ve built a lot of resources, and work with you and your teams to help you find the right approach to Gen AI in your course, depending on your industry / profession, and the programmes you deliver. There is a lot of variety and no single “right way” – much as we would all like simple rules. But there is a lot for you to remember, so we would like to simplify things just a bit for you, with this new section on our Te Aka page.
Here, we’ll progressively add more sub-pages on a range of Gen AI topics. Our intention is to be able to easily share this Gen AI page with one click, which will give you comprehensive lists, up-to-date “positions” and developments (because it’s all happening so fast), useful cases and exemplars, and always with further hyperlinks to all the different resources we know you find hard to remember and locate.
“First cab off the rank” as at January 2025 is a sub-page (click the tab to the left) called Transparency about AI at the start of a course, a checklist for teachers on essential planning for the start of semester. We give links to, for example, recommended text to copy and paste into Moodle, and other material to help you set up your course information in line with:
- Unitec policy and institutional expectations on AI – ethically and effectively used;
- wide consensus across higher education;
- what we know to be best practice
…to help you rise out of the feeling of ‘AI overwhelm’ and start to feel confident (if you’re not already) that the guardrails and guidelines we have make sense and work when you have all the pieces in place.
Soon there will be be new sections on AI and Assessment including the Two-lane Assessment model, AI Literacy online modules – one designed for learners that you can embed in your Moodle courses, and one designed for kaimahi. There will be much more. We’re excited to be bringing many parts of the AI picture into this space – and from here, you’ll be able to link easily to relevant further detail. This will be a central reference point.
Finally…
We think this will be a more efficient way to keep you current on AI in L, T and A at Unitec than via our increasingly sporadic newsletters. They served a useful purpose until we got swamped by Gen AI in early 2023, and we simply can’t keep up with regular newsletters that we want to be right up to date, timely and useful, given the pace of change. Sadly in 2024 we only managed one! We think we can do better than that, right here. My plan is to curate and update this site regularly.
Ngā mihi
Joce, James, Mark, Karen, Abha, Howard, Sharnell, Rosario, Joy, Fiona, William, Sacha & Judith
30 January 2025