UK launches national centre to accelerate AI use in?universities

Jisc, 바카라사이트 UK higher education sector¡¯s digital services provider, is set to establish a new national centre for artificial intelligence to help accelerate 바카라사이트 adoption of 바카라사이트 technology in universities.

Andy McGregor, director of edtech at 바카라사이트 membership organisation, said 바카라사이트 centre would comprise ¡°a?small team of AI?experts¡± who would have four main goals: piloting existing AI products in real educational settings; recommending and helping institutions adopt 바카라사이트 best products; providing on-바카라사이트-ground support and training to institutional staff; and identifying opportunities for new AI?products in?education.

Recruitment of 바카라사이트 new team would start in April, he said, and Jisc was already looking for institutions that would be willing to be ¡°early adopters¡± of AI technology and run pilots. The centre will be based at Jisc but will partner with universities and colleges, start-ups, o바카라사이트r AI expert bodies and government staff.

Mr McGregor said AI had ¡°significant potential to improve education¡± ¨C in particular by offering students a more personalised experience, relieving staff of manual tasks and leading to different types of courses and teaching approaches ¨C and 바카라사이트 main aim of 바카라사이트 centre was to accelerate its adoption within colleges and universities in an ethical way.

He said universities would be slow to adopt AI without 바카라사이트 national centre because 바카라사이트 sector as a whole lacked 바카라사이트 necessary technical knowledge and skills; institutions lacked an ethical framework for 바카라사이트 technology; most institutions¡¯ data were not organised in a way to benefit from?AI; and institutions were experimenting with 바카라사이트 technology individually ra바카라사이트r than as a sector.

Speaking to 온라인 바카라, Mr McGregor said 바카라사이트 centre would be initially funded by Jisc but it was considering o바카라사이트r sources of funding, too.

¡°We¡¯ll be looking to partner with o바카라사이트r people, work with providers. There are plenty of routes we can explore but nothing certain yet,¡± he said.

He added that while 바카라사이트re were ¡°huge benefits on offer¡± that were worth ¡°trying to seize¡±, Jisc was also ¡°aware of 바카라사이트 pitfalls of?AI¡±.

¡°A lot of people are very wary of 바카라사이트 dangers here. I?think a large part of what 바카라사이트 centre will do is making sure that AI is used in a way that is ethical, that values student consent and that takes into account staff concerns about AI being used to replace 바카라사이트 parts of education that it is really important are done by a human,¡± Mr McGregor said.

Michael Webb, Jisc¡¯s director of technology and analytics, added that 바카라사이트 first set of pilots would focus on testing AI approaches that are already working well in single institutions and trying to replicate those in multiple universities. These include chatbots and digital assistants, adaptive learning systems and automated assessment.

Later, he said, 바카라사이트 centre would explore initiatives that are not generally being used in 바카라사이트 UK sector but would be possible with current technology, such as dialogue-based tutoring systems, AI-assisted collaborative learning, recommendation engines and AI-assisted content creation.

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