Dr Pauldy Otermans is a Reader (Education) in Psychology at Brunel and a female tech leader in the UK. She is the Director of the Education Hub and Employability Lead for the Faculty. Dr Otermans’ research focuses on using AI in education and authentic assessments. Dr Stephanie Baines is a Senior Lecturer (Education) in Psychology at Brunel. She is the Associate Pro Vice Chancellor – Quality Assurance and the former Psychology Undergraduate Programme Lead. Dr Baines’ research focuses on authentic assessments, innovation in teaching & learning in Higher Education and the use of AI in education.

With the rise of Generative AI, we developed a workshop to support our students to use AI in their teaching and learning in a safe and responsible way. For this, we gave a brief overview of AI, Generative AI and tools that can be used. We then explored ChatGPT in detail together with the students. Their understanding and use of a tool such as ChatGPT was then tested in a Level 4 assessment. Here, the students had to share their prompt and the AI’s response in their submission. The learning of AI tools & skills was embedded with other skills development such as digital skills (e.g., using track changes and comments). Students had to critique and revise the ChatGPT output based on their learning using track changes and comments. The performance on this assessment showed an increased level of critical thinking skills in students compared to previous years. However, their digital skills as well as their prompt engineering could be further enhanced which is something we are embedding in a series of workshops for next academic year.