Generative AI in Higher Education

This self-paced online short course is designed for anyone with an interest in Higher Education (HE). With rapid developments in generative AI (epitomised by ChatGPT), it is clear there are significant implications for students, as well as academic and professional services staff.

At the beginning, initial flurries of interest centred on threats to academic integrity. Now it is clear that there are many challenges, but also considerable opportunities to improve how teaching, learning, assessment and feedback happen in HE.

At the same time, the jobs that HE students are preparing for are also changing. Not everyone can have in-depth expertise in AI, but we all need to have a degree of awareness and a platform for evolving a new literacy. The course takes participants through some foundational concepts, through to some of the big debates and issues, and then on to the applications of generative AI to teaching, learning and assessment practices.

Finally, it considers some of the key implications for employability in a rapidly changing job landscape.

The course will cover the following topics:

1. Grasping the basics of AI and generative AI
2. Identifying capabilities and limitations
3. Ethics, access and sustainability
4. AI in teaching and learning
5. Understanding AI in assessment and evaluation
6. AI and its impact on employment and society

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

1. Summarise how artificial intelligence and generative AI work, emulate human intelligence, and create novel content
2. Describe the key capabilities, limitations, challenges and opportunities of generative AI in higher education teaching, learning, feedback and assessment
3. Discuss the importance of considering social, ethical, inclusivity and sustainability dimensions while utilising generative AI in education
4. Explain the influence of generative AI on the employment landscape, including the emergence of new job roles, and the implications for disciplinary curricula of changing skill requirements.

This course is relevant to a general audience with an interest in Higher Education (HE), including educators, professional services staff, management, policy-makers, and students.

It will also be of interest to educators across all sectors.

This course is not assessed externally, but there are self-checking activities and plenty of opportunities to discuss and to compare your thinking with others.

If you are a King's member of staff, please sign in via this link to get unlimited access to the course. Use your King’s email address to sign-in and create a Future Learn account, and follow the instructions given to you.