The AI FORGE

Crafting the Future of Academic Innovation with AI

Welcome to the Forge!

Guiding you through basic to more advanced uses of GenAI.

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I am a Student

Resources and examples to support your learning

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I Teach Students

Resources and ideas to help you teach and assess

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Who are we?

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David Smith

David Smith is a Professor of Bioscience Education. He is a National Teaching Fellow and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His innovative practice has been awarded the Royal Society of Biology HE Teacher of the Year award.
(publications and outputs)

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Nigel Francis

Nigel Francis focuses on enhancing immunology education. He is a National Teaching Fellow, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a winner of the Royal Society of Biology HE Teacher of the Year award and the British Society of Immunology's Teaching Excellence Award.
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Our Blogs, Articles, and other resources on AI

Trust, Policy, and Pedagogy with GenAI

Why do students hide their use of GenAI when many institutions openly allow access to the technology, provided it is used openly and transparently?

The GenAI Trust Gap: Why Students Hide, Share, or Shun AI

Our recent paper on Embedding GenAI skills in a Masters program highlights key findings around a trust deficit in GenAI use. Evidence from our own work and across recent studies shows student behaviour around GenAI disclosure is shaped by three closely linked drivers: institutional policy design and enforcement (clarity, consistency, perceived fairness), social and cultural pressures (stigma, peer norms, belonging), and assessment and grading incentives (perceived penalty for disclosure, detectability).

Generative AI in higher education: Balancing innovation and integrity

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming the landscape of higher education, offering novel opportunities for personalised learning and innovative assessment methods. This paper explores the dual-edged nature of GenAI’s integration into educational practices, focusing on both its potential to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes and the significant challenges it poses to academic integrity and equity.

AI: Actual Intelligence – how embedded GenAI can promote the aims of higher education

Nigel Francis, Dom Henri and David Smith discuss how process-focused assessment and GenAI can enhance a competence-based, skills-first approach to higher education.

A 101 Short Guild to good prompt writing

Keep hearing about large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT3.5 and GPT4, Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing? Want to understand AI and even use it in your teaching but don’t know where to begin? Here’s the 101 that many academics have been asking me for, to help you harness AI’s power and utilise it more effectively!

Generative AI in assessments

This article discusses the implications of generative AI tools like ChatGPT for assessment in higher education. We note there are currently no reliable ways to detect AI-generated content, making it challenging to prevent academic misconduct.

Guidelines on Using AI in Academic Assessments

Generative artificial intelligence in an ethical way. A range of different assessment types are discussed with advice on how to use AI in each case to enhance learning.

Using Generative Artificial Intelligence - A Student Guide

This article provides some overarching principles for students on how they may use generative artificial intelligence in their work, whilst still maintaining academic integrity and enhancing their educational experience.

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