Use Cases for Generative AI in Education. User Research Report

From September 2023 to March 2024, Faculty AI, the National Institute of Teaching (NIoT) and ImpactEd Group (representing the AI in Schools Initiative) have worked with the Department for Education (DfE) to deliver the Use Cases for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education project. The project explored potential applications for Generative AI (GenAI) in the education sector as part of a wider effort to 'transform a teacher's day to day work' -- reducing workload and improving educational outcomes by automating routine tasks. The project team ran 4 work-streams at different stages of the project: pre-hackathons user engagement; delivery of the hackathons; build and testing of the PoC; and user research. This report sets out the user research findings of the project and has been published alongside the Technical Report which details the experimentation and technical development work conducted as part of the project.