22 May 2025
Claude for Education is now accessible for LSE educators, free of charge. This is a 1- year pilot scheme, starting in June 2025.
Claude is an AI model designed by Anthropic which is useful for transcription, code generation, translation and many other tasks. You can find out more about Claude here. Anthropic have guaranteed that LSE student and staff data will not be used to train their models. All LSE students were sent an invitation to access Claude on Tuesday 20 May.
As well as the School-wide guidelines on the use of GenAI, users should bear in mind Departmental guidance on use of AI in their teaching and assessments.
You can get more information regarding the use of Claude by LSE educators via our webpage here.
13 May 2025
The Eden Centre is running a workshop in Spring Term on Teaching with Generative AI (Thursday 12 June, 2-3.30pm). You can find out more about this workshop and book your place via this link.
Videos from the Global Approaches to Generative AI in Higher Education conference in April are now available to watch on our Eden Centre YouTube channel. You can browse the whole playlist here.
One of our keynote speakers from the Conference, Prof B. Mairéad Pratschke has also recently posted this LSE Impact Blog piece on the evolving relationship between AI and education - you can read that here. Our colleagues Dr Dorottya Sallai, Dr Jonathan Cardoso-Silva, Dr Marcos Barreto and Dr Casey Kearney have also recently colloborated on this blog piece 'Generative AI in education: Reshaping the future of learning'.
2 April 2025
We are pleased to announce the release of a new Student Manifesto for Assessment in the Age of AI (produced by collaboration between LSE Student's Union and LSE Eden Centre). This Manifesto is the outcome of dialogue, feedback and reflection among a diverse group of students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as general course students, across multiple departments, both qualitative and quantitative, at LSE. This was launched at the joint LSE-Peking University (PKU) Conference on Global Approaches to Gen AI in Higher Education on 4 April.
Read the Student Manifesto here
4 February 2025
This academic year, the Eden Catalyst Spotlight Fund invited proposals for projects focusing on Generative AI and Education. This dedicated call was designed to support projects aimed at enhancing the educational experience of our students through the integration of generative AI into teaching and learning while also supporting research to increase our understanding of generative AI tools.
We are happy to announce that three projects have just been awarded funding via this strand. They are:
Carrie Friese – Department of Sociology
Technologies in Qualitative Social Research Methods
Ronny Razin and Antonio Mele – Department of Economics
Proposal for designing and testing a conversational tool for student learning and feedback
Edoardo Zulato – Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Beyond the prompt. Developing an automation map of students’ AI-supported learning experience
These three innovative projects have been awarded funding through the Eden Catalyst Spotlight Fund on Generative AI in Education.
Emma McCoy (Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education) commented: “I am delighted to see the outcome of the Eden Catalyst Spotlight awards showcasing three fascinating projects that will deepen our understanding of how generative AI can be effectively used in education. These initiatives will not only advance the scholarly debate on the role of generative AI in education but also underscore the critical importance of placing the social sciences at the forefront of this work.”
14 November 2024
Eden Catalyst Funding available for projects focusing on Generative AI and Education
This academic year, the LSE Catalyst Spotlight Fund is on projects focusing on Generative AI and Education. This might include projects focusing on assessment, teaching and learning, course and programme design, developing generative AI literacy or exploring student and staff experiences and perspectives.
Applications should follow the usual process for Catalyst funding, as outlined on the Catalyst website. All applications engaging with the theme of Generative AI will be reviewed for approval by a panel including Professor Emma McCoy, Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) and Dr Claire Gordon, Director, LSE Eden Centre, early in Winter Term.
The closing deadline for applications to the Catalyst Spotlight Fund on Generative AI is Thursday 19 December 2024.
7 November 2024
The first article from The Genial Project is now available - "Approach Generative AI Tools Proactively or Risk Bypassing the Learning Process in Higher Education."
The growing reliance of students on GenAI for learning and assessment risks undermining the learning process in the absence of adequate support and guidance. Given the pressures on outcomes, students tend to focus more on assessment or performance than the learning journey. This raises some important questions: How can we bring GenAI into the curriculum in ways that genuinely support learning rather than replace it? Co-authored with Jon Cardoso-Silva, Marcos Ennes Barreto, Francesca Panero, Ghita Berrada, Sara Luxmoore and Dorottya Sallai. Data analysed in collaboration with student researchers.
More information is available via the PPR and LSE websites. The Genial Project was made possible via Catalyst funding -see the Catalyst website for more details.
2 October 2024
In June 2024, a group of academics from King’s College London and LSE came together to explore the future of the essay in the age of AI. The aim of the resulting manifesto (finalised in September) is to stimulate debate, foster reflection and provide educators and students alike with an analytical framework for reimagining the essay as a dynamic tool for learning and assessment in the AI era.
Read the manifesto
You can read expansions on the ideas of the Manifesto in both the LSE HE Blog and the LSE Impact Blog.
- GENIAL (GENerative AI Tools as a Catalyst for Learning) is a Collaborative Focus Group aiming explore the practical applications of these tools and understand how they might specifically enhance programming skills and critical thinking.
- ‘Talking Teaching’ is a new series of events hosted by LSE’s Education Career Track (ECT) network but open to colleagues across LSE and in wider HE with an interest in sharing practice and exploring different aspects of teaching and learning. The inaugural event on 2 November 2023 explored generative AI and Education and you can watch three presentations on the LSE Eden Centre YouTube channel.
- This report outlines the findings of a student-led research project exploring student attitudes towards academic integrity, assessment and artificial intelligence with recommendations for practice.
- The 2023 LSE Education Symposium was on the theme of assessment and had a number of speakers and sessions dedicated to AI. You can watch the opening address of the symposium here.