AI-related events and articles
Explore these events, educational videos and key contacts to stay ahead of the latest advancement and insights in AI.
Events and workshops
Visit Ed Tech and AI in Education Events for a calendar of upcoming AI-related events and workshops for staff, held at the UNSW Teaching Commons.
Fundamentals of genAI
Be Ready with Generative AI
Be Ready with Generative AI is a concise self-paced module that equips students with the foundational knowledge and basic skills to use genAI effectively for study. The module explores:
- Underlying principles of generative AI and essential terminology
- Writing and refining prompts to optimise AI-generated outputs
- Risks, limitations, and ethical considerations of using AI within UNSW
- How to engage responsibly with generative AI tools.
AI Fundamentals Short Course
Permanent and fixed staff at UNSW can access an AI Fundamentals short course, AI Fundamentals, which offers immediate actionable knowledge and skills for using AI in the workplace.
It features 8-10 hours of online, self-paced content and reflective activities that will build your understanding of AI tools and give you the confidence to use them effectively as part of your role.
You will learn how to:
- evaluate the ethical implications and privacy concerns related to AI use
- employ critical thinking and decision-making skills to assess the suitability of AI in a range of contexts
- strategically plan and incorporate AI technologies at a task level into organisational workflows and processes for various roles
- gain proficiency in the design and formulation of prompts and inputs for AI systems
Teaching and learning using genAI at UNSW
Generative AI Literacy (GAIL) self-paced module
The AI in Education team in the PVCE has launched Generative AI Literacy (GAIL), a custom GPT-powered learning module designed to develop AI literacy. It makes engaging with AI accessible to UNSW staff, through an adaptive learning experience that provides a personalised approach through each topic.
GAIL will walk you through each of these topics within the UNSW context:
- Define generative AI and seeing first hand its capabilities.
- Explore how students at UNSW use generative AI tools productively and problematically.
- Consider adjustments to assessments to maintain integrity in the age of generative AI.
Learning, Teaching, and Assessment with Generative AI at UNSW: Self-paced module series
The AI in Education team in the PVCE has launched Learning, Teaching and Assessment with Generative AI at UNSW: three self-paced modules designed to help all course convenors and tutors integrate generative AI into their teaching and assessments. The modules are flexible and can be completed in any order, with a total time commitment of 2 hours (approx.).
UNSW teaching colleagues can access the modules on the Moodle page by using the ‘genaiteach’ student enrolment key.
Learning, Teaching and Assessment with Generative AI at UNSW Modules Overview:
- Module 1: Opportunities for AI in Student Learning explores incorporating AI into teaching, understanding students' use of AI, and creating inclusive learning using AI.
- Module 2: Considerations for AI in Assessments covers principles for AI use in assessments and maintaining academic integrity in an educational landscape shaped by AI.
- Module 3: Responsible Use and Practice of AI gives practical frameworks for evaluating AI outputs, understanding their limitations, and using AI ethically.
Microsoft Copilot: Training session recordings
UNSW & Microsoft: Copilot Training for Beginners
Watch a recorded interactive session between UNSW and Microsoft that will take you through everything you need to know to get started with Microsoft Copilot.
Duration: 80 minutes
Style: Video (transcript available)
UNSW & Microsoft: Prompt writing for Copilot
Want to work on your prompt writing? Watch this video by Microsoft and access training materials specifically for Copilot with commercial data protection.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Style: Recorded video, training materials
LinkedIn Learning
1. Getting started with Generative AI
| Course title | Description |
|---|---|
| What is Generative AI? | Learn about the basics of generative AI, including its history, popular models, how it works, ethical implications, and more. |
| Get Ready for Generative AI | Learn some useful basics about generative AI, including new capabilities and new issues. |
| Prompt Engineering: How to Talk to the AIs | Develop your AI skills by learning how to design and fine-tune prompts that can interact directly with large language models. |
| AI Trends | Gain clear perspectives on the latest AI technologies and their impacts on your work in tech. |
| Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | Get a simplified overview of the top tools in AI. |
| Getting Hands-on with GPT-4: Tips and Tricks | Get hands-on training with GPT-4 to improve your daily workflows and take your generative AI skills to the next level. |
| Improving writing with GPT | Learn how to use GPT-4 to help edit your writing for clarity and grammatical corrections. |
2. Prompt engineering
| Course title | Description |
|---|---|
| Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Generative AI | Start exploring large language models in the modern NLP landscape and get hands-on practice using no-code or low-code interfaces to test out these technologies. |
| Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques | Explore advanced prompting techniques including Chain-Of-Thought, Tree-Of-Thought, and more. |
| Reference prompting | The easiest way to get more accurate answers from an AI system like ChatGPT is by providing reference material. This video shows you how. |
| Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting | Learn how to use Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting to get ChatGPT to reason its way through complex problems. |
3. Generative AI tools
| Course title | Description |
|---|---|
| ChatGPT - Introduction to Prompt Engineering | Learn how to open a working OpenAI account. |
| What is Copilot? Get Started with Microsoft's Everyday AI Companion | Get an overview of how to use Copilot on the web, in the Copilot mobile app, and in Microsoft 365 tools including Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams. |
| Power BI: Working Together with ChatGPT | Learn how to safely use chat-driven AI, such as ChatGPT, to get the most from your Power BI experience. |
| Introduction to Google Gemini | Learn best practices, patterns, and processes for developers and DevOps teams who design and implement LLM-based applications using Google Gemini. |
| OpenAI API: Image Generation with DALL-E | Explore the basic features and capabilities of DALL-E in this intermediate-level course on image generation with AI. |
| Build Your Own GPTs | Master building products with OpenAI GPTs using just English. No coding skills required |
4. Responsible and Ethical Use
| Course title | Description |
|---|---|
| AI Show: Being Responsible with Generative AI | Explore the fundamentals of responsible practice with generative AI. |
| Responsible AI to the Rescue | Learn how to responsibly implement cutting-edge AI technology without putting people at risk. |
| Ethics in the Age of Generative AI | Learn why ethical considerations are a critical part of the generative AI creation and deployment process and explore ways to address these ethical challenges. |
| Safeguarding AI | Make sure you are using artificial intelligence for good. |
| Understanding Vilas' ethical AI framework | Explore Vilas' framework describing the potential ethical considerations in building a new technology, focusing on fairness, bias, transparency and safety. |
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AI in Education at UNSW Digest
You can subscribe to the AI in Education at UNSW Digest to stay informed of key developments, information and opportunities related to AI developments at UNSW, with a focus on content relevant to UNSW teaching and education support staff.
ChatGPT/AI Ed Community
This internal Microsoft Teams group is designed for UNSW staff who wish to stay updated on the latest teaching and learning use cases, as well as ChatGPT news.
The goals of the ChatGPT/AI Ed Community are to establish a community of UNSW staff who are keen to explore and discover AI in education, and to offer a platform where UNSW staff can discuss ideas related to ChatGPT/AI.
AI Education Focussed Community of Practice
The AI EF CoP meets from 10-11am on the second Thursday of each month until November. This CoP is open to all interested in addressing the challenges and opportunities generative AI creates in higher education learning and teaching.
The current goals of the AI EF CoP are to disseminate, collaborate & advocate through our meetings, newsletters, and virtual spaces for members to share expertise and resources while learning from each other.
To join the CoP, email Project Officer Melanie Cross.
Student Feedback and Digital Assessment CoP
Student feedback is critical to student performance and satisfaction but can be difficult to provide in large class settings and in a timely way. Approaches to digital assessment are becoming increasingly important and complex with the recent shift to remote learning and teaching. Ensuring integrity and security while providing accessible and authentic assessment opportunities for students presents its own challenges. The Student Feedback and Digital Assessment Community of Practice (CoP) is working to provide innovative solutions to the above challenges and share these with the wider education community at UNSW.
The CoP meets monthly to collaborate and build expertise on digital assessment and student feedback. They come together from across faculties, divisions and campuses and include a growing community of Education Focussed (EF), non-EF and professional staff.
To join the CoP, email Project Officer Alana Clifton-Cunningham.
For other CoPs, please see Current Education Focussed Communities of Practice.
UNSW AI Institute
UNSW AI Institute is the flagship UNSW Research Institute in artificial intelligence, data science and machine learning. UNSW has around 300 academic staff and over thirty groups who identify as 'working in/with AI'.
Their vision and purpose is for UNSW to be recognised as a world leader in the development of AI as a safe, reliable and ubiquitous technology for global benefit. The Institute's goals are:
- promote research excellence in AI, foster interdisciplinary connections
- promote and participate in public dialog in the benefits and issues relating to AI
- play a role in coordinating standards activities relating to AI
- provide an easy to find front door for external organisations to engage with UNSW in AI related areas
- drive the commercialisation and realisation of impact of our AI research.
Key UNSW contacts for AI
Visit the Key UNSW Contacts for Gen AI page on the Innovation SharePoint to connect with key academics in your faculty or investigate cross-disciplinary collaboration with those who have a keen interest in using AI in their teaching and/or research (UNSW login required to access key contacts page).
Key external thought leaders
Australian focus:
- TEQSA - Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency - Artificial Intelligence Good Practice Hub
- CRADLE - Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning | Deakin University
- Sensemaking, AI and Learning (SAIL) newsletter from George Siemens (from University of South Australia)
- Artificial Intelligence in Education at Sydney - University of Sydney
- Artificial Intelligence in Learning and Teaching - LX team at University of Technology, Sydney
International focus
- GRAILE - Global Research Alliance for AI in Learning and Education
- Stanford HAI (Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence) - News
- Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing newsletter (from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania)
- AI Breakfast - X/Twitter