Transforming University Education with Generative AI: Experiments at the Open University

Keynote speaker. Abstract: It has been a little over a year since ChatGPT burst onto the world. This high exposure of Generative AI has forced universities to reflect upon and rethink many aspects of the way they teach and assess. Building on AI research, innovation and deployment which stretches over many decades, since the beginning of 2023 we have been exploring the potential of Generative AI to aid in OU teaching and learning. In this talk I will report on early results, including proof of concepts in the areas of content generation and digital assistants for students, the views of our students on these technologies, and outline possible future directions.

Part of the event entitled: Advancing Education and Knowledge: Exploring Generative AI, Hybrid Intelligence, Governance of Knowledge Graph Artefacts, and FAIR Knowledge Infrastructures.