Get the low-down from June’s SkyLAB – AI-assisted course creation 

Teach on Mars clients are also members of the Teach on Mars User Club and, as such, are invited to exclusive gatherings with our Academy and Product experts. The SkyLAB is one such exclusive gathering. 

The half yearly, in-person event held in Paris, is an opportunity for Teach on Mars to discuss and brainstorm with clients about their daily challenges.

There are three parts to each themed event:

• A welcome breakfast,
• A plenary session on the chosen topic,
• Working groups and reporting back,

All with a generous serving of networking!

Find a roundup below of June’s SkyLAB, whose topic was, “Boosting creativity with AI for easier content creation”; with the key takeaways.

AI in context

For the European Parliament, artificial intelligence is the ability of a machine to “display human-like capabilities such as reasoning, planning and creativity”. 

The scope of AI is vast: machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and so on. 

For this SkyLAB we explored generative AI – a branch of artificial intelligence that creates new content using automatic teaching models, be it text, images, music or other kinds of data.

AI & learning

AI can be harnessed for a number of learning-related fields such as: 

1. Course content creation:
   1. Automatic content generation (quizzes, assessments, educational videos, etc.)
   2. Content analysis (identifying areas to be improved or updated)
2. Bespoke learning:
   1. Content recommendations: recommending specific modules and resources to each learner.
   2. Adaptive learning: adjusting course content to match performance and preferences.
3. Support and interaction with learners:
   1. Instant feedback about learner performance, helping to correct mistakes and to consolidate knowledge.
   2. Chatbots and virtual assistants to answer learners’ frequently asked questions.
4. Performance Analysis and Prediction
   1. Predictive analysis: by analysing learner data, AI can predict future performance and identify risks of failure, thus enabling proactive intervention.
   2. Identifying trends: AI can identify trends in course data, helping learning managers to understand learning behaviour and to tailor strategies accordingly.

Tools for content creators

We have picked out some tools to help you optimise your content creation and to guide you at every step of the way. 

Generating ideas

ChatGPT: AI developed by open AI to nurture creativity and give you ideas about ways to approach training, the angle of approach and associated storytelling. 

💡 Top tip: carefully introduce the context, target, practical details, and course topic.

Structuring your course 

• Globe Explorer is a search platform for discovering and organising knowledge about a given topic. 

Advantages: free/structured answer/sourced. 
Drawback: check the reliability of sources. 

• With ChatGPT, the structure is even more honed. 
  💡 Top tip: specify the course length, context, target and details and incorporate the poster of Teach on Mars activities, asking AI to give you a structure using the activities on the poster.

Generating textual content 

• Description – With ChatGPT,  you can generate a course description with ease. 
  💡 Top tip: enhance your description by providing AI with a description model and asking it to create content based on the same format. 

• Quiz – Magic School: artificial intelligence for teachers.  It offers a number of tools such as: 
  • Multiple choice quiz generator
  • YouTube video question generator 
  • Evaluation grid generator
    There is a fee-based version, but the free version enables you to access many features. 
    

• Sourced text – Perplexity: an AI-powered search engine that condenses key resources about a topic and references its sources. 
  

Creating media

• Image – Copilot: AI proposed by Bing. It is free with a Microsoft account, which is also free to set up. You can get credits to generate images more quickly. Please note, for the time being, AI is not good at integrating text.
  
• Video – Many AI tools are available with the premium version of Canva: 
  • “Magic” reformulation 
  • Image animation 
  • Video creation 
    Please note, videos are not yet up to standard, especially those including humans. 
    
• Podcast – Wondercraft is an artificial intelligence platform specialised in generating audio content from text. It lets users automatically create podcasts, audio books, articles and other kinds of audio media, all with a high-quality voice. You can even add your own voice The free version provides 4 credits per month (4 minutes). 
  
• Comics – Dashtoon is an artificial intelligence comic creator. The free version offers 100 image generations per day.

Get a roundup of all the tools via this link: https://ladigitale.dev/digibunch/#/b/665ecd9154283

If you’d like to boost your AI expertise, the Lyon-based Le Bahut school runs a two-day “AI & Pedagogy” course to explore the world of artificial intelligence and education.

We hope you’ll make lots of wonderful AI-assisted content.