Ed Tech and AI in Education

The Innovation Incubator is a collaborative initiative between the PVCE Portfolio and IT that was launched this year as a trial.

UNSW is exploring the potential of Scout, an experimental, AI-powered chatbot designed to transform the student experience at the University.

By Professor Alex Steel, Director AI Strategy Education and Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice

By By Naveen Kumar, Faisal Khattak and Ee Kho (PVC Education Portfolio)

Dr Mark Ian Jones presents the programmatic approach used by UNSW’s School of Art and Design to balance both the potential for and ethics of AI in students’ practice while assuring the development of their individual creativity.

The PVC Education Portfolio announces the release of three new self-paced modules on Learning, Teaching, and Assessment with Generative AI at UNSW, designed to be completed within two hours.

Some of UNSW’s projects, led by the Educational Innovation teams within the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Education Portfolio, have recently received sizeable international recognition.

By Dr Cherie Lucas, A/Prof. Anita Heywood, Dr Husna Razee and Dr Ben Harris-Roxas

Find out how the NSW Higher Education Summit brings people together to share ideas and tackle the big issues facing the sector through open, honest conversations.

Prof. Alex Steel, Director AI Strategy, Education, shares his own (and UNSW’s) views and approaches to managing students’ use of AI in assessments. Learn why, and how, we implement the six categories of permitted use of GenAI.

Dr Helena Pacitti & A/Prof. Jason Lodge reflect on the New South Wales Higher Education Summit 2024, held on Friday 28 June, which focused on artificial intelligence and assessment.

By Prof. Patsie Polly (UNSW Sydney) & A/Prof. Kathryn Coleman (University of Melbourne), reflect on the interplay of ePortfolios and AI.

By Dr Cherie Lucas, Dr Mark Ian Jones, Dr Chris Campbell & Dr Helena Pacitti, UNSW Nexus Fellows,

showcase the designing of rubrics using Gen-AI.

Prof. Alex Steel, Director AI Strategy Education, revisits the key considerations for AI in teaching & learning at UNSW, now that an institutionally supported gen AI tool is available to both staff and students.

By Associate Professor Lynn Gribble, UNSW Business School

Lynn discusses the need to embrace Generative AI as a tool for workplace use and practical applications in an academic's work.

A comprehensive analysis of our large and complex educational technology landscape across the institution has now resulted in the release of the Educational Technology Roadmap 2024-2028.

Learn how EF Lecturer Gee Chong Ling and A/Prof Jai Tree from the School of BABS joined forces to explore AI as a planner and potential learning assistant for their students to help them understand the data generated from a science experiment.

Learn how A/Prof. Jenny Richmond from the School of Psychology explored gen AI technology with her students to critique the output over a series of rounds, with the aim in mind to strengthen their overall communication skills.