[Academic] Fwd: AI - JISC TeacherMatic Pilot

[physics-director-teaching]

Any interest?

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Professor John Jeffers
Director of Teaching
Department of Physics
University of Strathclyde
physics-director-teaching at strath.ac.uk




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From: Debra Willison <D.Willison at strath.ac.uk>
Subject: FW: AI - JISC TeacherMatic Pilot
Date: 7 December 2023 at 13:05:56 GMT
To: Martin Goodfellow <martin.h.goodfellow at strath.ac.uk>, Elizabeth Dombi <e.dombi at strath.ac.uk>, John Jeffers <john.jeffers at strath.ac.uk>, Charles O'Hara <charlie.ohara at strath.ac.uk>, Anne Boyter <anne.boyter at strath.ac.uk>

Dear HoDs
You will see the ask below from Lizann. It looks like around 9-10 licences could be made available for colleagues in Science. Could you ask among your colleagues if there is interest? It is a short turnaround but if any names could be passed back to me by close of play Wednesday 13th December, then I can feed them back. Many thanks.
Regards
Debbie

From: Lizann Bonnar <lizann.bonnar at strath.ac.uk<mailto:lizann.bonnar at strath.ac.uk>>
Sent: 06 December 2023 17:33
To: Susan Howick <susan.howick at strath.ac.uk<mailto:susan.howick at strath.ac.uk>>; Julia Race <julia.race at strath.ac.uk<mailto:julia.race at strath.ac.uk>>; Debra Willison <D.Willison at strath.ac.uk<mailto:D.Willison at strath.ac.uk>>
Cc: Karen Barton <karen.barton at strath.ac.uk<mailto:karen.barton at strath.ac.uk>>; William Hasty <william.hasty at strath.ac.uk<mailto:william.hasty at strath.ac.uk>>
Subject: AI - JISC TeacherMatic Pilot
Importance: High

Dear Susan, Julia and Debbie,

I’m writing with an update and request related to an opportunity to engage in a JISC pilot of Teachermatic<https://teachermatic.com/>, a platform that supports staff to develop teaching, learning and assessment materials using various AI tools. We were successful in a pitch to participate in this pilot and Strathclyde will have 50 individual licences, 35-40 licenses of which would be for colleagues from across the four faculties. The remaining licences (around 10-15) will be available to colleagues in Education Enhancement and OSDU to support their understanding of the tools and to triage access to support for faculty colleagues from Teachermatic. This link here<https://teachermatic.com/generators/> gives an overview of the range of teaching, learning and assessment activities or resources that can be supported with the AI tools available.

Timeline and details of pilot participation (some content below pasted from an email from JISC)

January: Participating colleagues will be provided with a licence and training sessions on how to use Teachermatic will be provided in January 2024. These will be recorded and available to watch later for any staff unable to attend.


January and February - Phase one: Participating colleagues will use Teachermatic tools to develop teaching, learning and/or assessment materials of their choosing. This could be for teaching that is taking place in this academic year, or it could be for delivery in a future academic year. At the end of this phase (end February 2024), 5 to 10 licence Strathclyde participants will take part in an online focus group to review the Teachermatic tool. Participants will be asked to give feedback about the ease of use and quality of materials created, whether they feel it has saved them time and if they would continue using Teachermatic regularly.

March to June 2024: During this phase, all participants holding a licence at Strathclyde will be asked to evaluate and review Teachermatic resources and teaching materials in practice. Strathclyde licence holders will be asked to complete a survey.

Summer 2024: Once the evaluations are complete, JISC will publish a report of the pilot’s findings and insights.

Criteria for faculty participants: Enthusiasm from willing participants to use the tools available, and commitment to engage in the phases above i.e., training, participating in evaluation activities outlined above.

Ideally, all four faculties will offer participants for the pilot. Each faculty can decide how they would like to identify colleagues to participate. We must provide JISC with the names of participants/intended licence holders. Would you be happy to offer the opportunity to participate in this pilot to colleagues, and let us know the names of any willing participants, possibly by Thursday 14th December?

I realise this timing is tight, so please let me know if this is challenging (I expect we will be saying this a lot in relation to Gen-AI activities). We hope to hold an online meeting with all participating colleagues on Wednesday 17th January from 2.30 to 4pm to discuss the pilot, training etc.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Additional point re the Generative-AI working group for info – Karen, William and I are drafting staff guidance that covers immediate needs and are hoping to get this to the working group for comment asap before taking to ESC, so that this is in place for January.

Best wishes,
Lizann

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