AI Case Study: City of Wolverhampton College

Dr Adam Dwight teaches Education Studies at City of Wolverhampton College.

How much you are currently using AI in the classroom setting and what for (for example lesson plans), what may be holding you back if you aren’t using it regularly.

At City Wolverhampton College we have a commitment to integrate AI tools into the curriculum to enhance students' and apprentices’ learning experiences and foster skill development, preparing them for the demands of living and working in the 21st century.. All academic staff have engaged in extensive training on safe and effective use of AI and the College has subscribed to Teachermatic to showcase how AI can be used to assist teacher / assessor / trainer workload and improve and develop the quality of our teaching, learning and assessment. 

How much you think ChatGPT is being used by your students to complete homework tasks, and if it is easy to tell where it been used inappropriately in assignment responses?

Since we promote staff, students and apprentices to use AI safely and effectively, we expect that students are using AI for assessments. A significant aspect of our AI training with academic staff is to emphasise that the use of AI detectors to evaluate whether students have used AI in their in written work is extremely unreliable and that they should consider other assessment methods (verbal Vivas, presentations, project work) to ensure the validity and authenticity of assessments. We have also implemented through staff training and the forthcoming student inductions, the recommendations by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) where students and apprentices must fully cite / reference their use of AI, retain the original prompts and output and provide a written explanation of how they used AI. 

As far you know, does your school yet have a clear policy on AI usage for A) teachers B) students

We have a clear AI Guidance document (see attached) that was approved by our AI Working party comprised of staff members and student / apprentices and then ratified by our Executive Management Team and Governors. As well as all the above training, we have also focused on sharing best practice with case studies that have received national profile from the AI in Education group (we one of only two colleges in the country to be part of this group).