Educ-AI-tion Week 2024: Find out more about genAI and education at Sheffield

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 by Kate Richardson and Cat Bazela

Educ-AI-tion Week 2024 (11-15 November) aims to support you in exploring responsible, critical and ethical approaches to the use of AI in education.



Find out more

Are you interested in finding out more about AI and education? Do you have questions about how to use AI responsibly, critically and ethically in your practice? Would you like to hear about how others are responding to the opportunities and challenges of generative AI (genAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs)? 

Educ-AI-tion Week 2024 (11-15 November) offers you an opportunity to join workshops, read blog posts, and engage with a range of resources, to help you think through the implications of recent developments in AI for education at the University of Sheffield. 

This collaboration between Elevate, 301 Academic Skills Centre, the University Library, the Careers and Employability Service and the English Language Teaching Centre brings together a range of knowledge, expertise and resources to support you in exploring effective, creative and sustainable approaches to the use of AI in education.


Please note, some sessions are tailored specifically for staff or for students, whereas others are open to all. There will be a mixture of in person, online and hybrid events throughout the week.

Principles for Generative AI in learning and teaching
The Principles for Generative AI in learning and teaching are coordinated and curated centrally by Education Development Services (EDS) to ensure we amplify good practice and keep up-to-date with the rapidly evolving AI landscape. It is important that any Faculty or School-based guidance concentrates on context-specific and/or subject-specific details that enhance or build on the central guidance, but do not replace it.

New resources
As part of Educ-AI-tion week, we’re also launching new staff and student-facing webpages which will complement the updated Principles in practice and provide case studies from around the University showing how staff have positively engaged with genAI. 


Get involved
Education Development Services are keen to work closely with staff in Faculties and Schools to ensure our guidance is relevant, meaningful and clear. Examples of how staff have already positively engaged with and contributed to the central support and resources available include:

  • Co-developing and co-delivering sharing good practice sessions (Information School)
  • Joining and contributing to staff networks, e.g. AI ED: Pedagogy & Policy for Education 
  • Sharing student feedback about AI and education with Elevate to influence workshop content and form the basis of FAQs for staff (History)
  • Providing good practice examples of using AI to enhance digital accessibility (Journalism)
  • Collaborating with Elevate on gathering and disseminating staff and student survey data relating to AI and education (Information School)
  • Contributing ‘use cases’ aligned to each of the Principles for the new ‘Principles in Practice’ web pages (in development) and staff-facing workshops (Management, Biosciences, Geography, Psychology, Lifelong Learning, Law)

You can read more about AI in learning and teaching in our guidance pages for staff and Study Skills Hub for students, which both include a statement explaining why AI detection tools must not be used at Sheffield.