Conversations: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR LEARNING & TEACHING COLLECTIVE (AILTC)
Dr Nici Sweaney from AI Her Way
We were very lucky to welcome Dr Nici Sweaney as guest speaker at our AI for Learning & Teaching Symposium in April. She is an Adoption Strategist, Consultant, Educator and Director of AI Her Way. Her work focuses on enabling individuals and organizations to utilize AI responsibly and effectively.
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 including:
- The challenges and the opportunities of AI in Education.
- AI as a skillset, and the importance of teaching students how to use it.
- Assessment reform, including literacy for staff and students, governance and policy development, curriculum reform and redesigning assessments.
- New Assessments: Integrating AI OR Concentrating on human-centric skills.
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.
Watch the recording of Nici’s presentation below:
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.)
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