About this guide
Welcome, Deakin colleagues, to this guide focused on generative artificial intelligence (genAI) resources that build or expand your skills and knowledge.
Deakin is committed to preparing our students, academics, and staff for a world where genAI is ubiquitous. Digital transformation and AI impacts have made for a complex and nuanced landscape. There are disparate perspectives, conflicting information, ethical dilemmas, and challenges posed by mis-, dis- and mal-information.
This guide is designed to support our community in navigating the AI age via pathways to credible information and opportunities for capability development. We've curated and organised a range of genAI learning resources to empower you to use genAI proficiently, productively and ethically across various aspects of digital life.
GenAI framework and principles
Deakin staff work with genAI from a principle-led perspective. With that in mind, let’s take a look at Deakin’s genAI framework that shapes our individual practice, collective knowledge creation, knowledge sharing activities, and our strategic and ethical decision-making.
These genAI principles guide decisions on the adoption and use of genAI tools and systems in all University activities.
- We empower people through human-led decision-making.
- We use evaluative judgement to guide human-genAI practices.
- We value equitable and inclusive genAI engagement, design and implementation.
- We are committed to an educative and informed approach to genAI engagement.
- We are accountable for safe, responsible and transparent applications of genAI.
- We value innovative, experimental and brave decisions.
To enable this principled approach, Deakin recognises the centrality of five enablers - culture, capability, governance, partnerships and technology.
Digital capabilities development
GenAI is one aspect in the larger landscape of digital fluency. Digital fluency is a blend of knowledges, competencies, and behaviours that are essential to operate in our world and thrive in the future.
The library is committed to enabling staff and student digital fluency through digital capabilities development. We adapt the JISC digital capabilities framework to support our work in this space. In the context of this guide, the framework is used to group development resources by capability.
Attribution and acknowledgement
Crediting creators or attributing content is a core part of both academic integrity and of being a digital citizen more broadly. This guide has been informed by the Deakin staff and student community through shared learnings and reflections across various touchpoints.
Written content was augmented or refined through use of different AI chatbots (OpenAI and Perplexity) and AI assistants (Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Atlassian Intelligence).
This guide was created by Deakin Library. The text and layout of 'GenAI: developing capabilities' guide is © Deakin University (2024) and licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0.