The European legislative process on Artificial Intelligence has moved on one step with the Council of Ministers (representatives of national governments) agreeing on their response to the text proposed by the European Commission last year. The main focus of the proposed law is makers of products that use “AI”: where these are designed for a […]
One promising application of Machine Learning in education is marking support. Colleagues in Jisc’s National Centre for AI have identified several products that implement a similar process, where a program “watches” a human marking assessments, learns in real time, and suggests how the quality and consistency of marking can be maintained or even improved. This […]
[Script for a presentation at a recent Westminster Education Forum event…] Back in February 2020 we knew what assessment looked like. Jisc had just published “The Future of Assessment”, setting five targets – Authentic, Accessible, Appropriately Automated, Continuous, and Secure – to aim for by 2025. Then COVID made us all look at assessment through […]