Explore core ideas, practical tools, and
cultural considerations for
using AI in the tertiary education sector.

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Key ideas

New to AI? Explore the key ideas that you can use as a starting point for discussions about AI, or where to go next with integrating GenAI tools into your own teaching practice.

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Practical tips

Ready to go further? Find links to articles and research, practical tips for using tools like ChatGPT and reflective prompts to support your next steps.

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Project

Scoping the integration of AI in adult tertiary education: An equitable and outcome-focused approach in Aotearoa New Zealand

This project undertook an in-depth exploration of artificial intelligence’s (AI) evolving role in Aotearoa New Zealand’s diverse tertiary education sector and has developed practical guidelines to assist educators and organisations to integrate AI into their practice. 

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Project

Matapaki Atamai Hangahanga | Promoting reflective and interactive learning with AI conversations

This project has designed, and is trialling two types of AI-powered verbal conversational assessments to improve the educational outcomes for tertiary learners across diverse subject areas. 

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Empowering Aotearoa: An Inclusive Approach to AI Literacy in Tertiary Education

This research aims to address the gap in AI literacy among diverse learner populations in Aotearoa New Zealand by co-constructing and implementing a comprehensive AI literacy resource that can be practically applied through learning and assessment.

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Project

Guidelines for supporting foundation ākonga to use Generative Artificial Intelligence tools to improve writing and reading

This research project investigated the specific challenges, impacts, and potentials of utilising Gen AI to support the learning of reading and writing or beginning te reo Māori for Aotearoa foundation and bridging ākonga.