Generative AI Lab for Education (GAILE)

GAILE was established to guide and enable human-centred adoption of AI in education at RMIT and beyond.

As an institution committed to innovation and global leadership, RMIT University is committed to embracing AI not as a passing trend, but as a catalyst for new ways of learning, teaching and discovery.

GAILE's work aims to support meaningful integration of AI in learning and teaching, so that:

educators have the capability and confidence to innovate with AI
RMIT’s teaching, learning, curriculum and assessment is elevated with the support of AI
our community of educators and students develop critical understanding of AI and use AI responsibly and ethically.

Exploring AI in Education

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GeneratED Conference 2026

Join us for GAILE’s inaugural conference on 4 May 2026. This event brings educators together to prototype AI-enabled practices for immediate impact and shape a shared understanding of AI’s place in learning and connection.

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Resources for students

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About GAILE

The Generative AI Lab for Education (GAILE) at RMIT was established with a sector-facing mission: to guide and enable human-centred adoption of AI in education.

We’re building GAILE as a catalyst for transformation to build understanding of where AI creates real and impactful value. With a focus on how AI can amplify the work of educators and, in turn, better support and empower students.

Together we will:

For AI: build educator capability and confidence to innovate with AI.
With AI: enhance teaching, learning, curriculum and assessment.
About AI: foster critical, ethical and societal understanding.

In collaboration with students, staff, industry and government, GAILE fast-tracks initiatives from concept to implementation with clarity and pace. We’re not just responding to AI, we’re building a community to shape it, always asking how it amplifies human expertise and enriches student learning.

Our vision

A connected community of educators who are confident, responsible and creative in their use of AI and empowered to lead change, deepen human learning and turn possibility into practice.

Our mission

GAILE translates AI strategy into educator practice. We take institutional frameworks and make them actionable in teaching contexts, building shared understanding of what AI capability means and how it develops. Through structured experimentation, collective learning and guidance that makes AI adoption feel safe and aligned with RMIT values, we're guiding RMIT's education community and the broader sector from isolated early experiments to confident, responsible and widespread practice.

Strategy in action

The establishment of GAILE is a key action in RMIT’s Education Plan to 2028. Its goals in translating institutional commitment into educator-led practice specifically for the education sphere aligns with Goal 1 of RMIT’s Knowledge with Action strategy (Horizon 2).

True to our motto of skilled hand and cultivated mind, GAILE creates the conditions for educators to experiment critically, learn collectively, and claim ownership over their professional judgement in an AI-augmented landscape.

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Connect with us

We’d love to connect with educators, researchers and innovators across RMIT and beyond. GAILE is something we’re establishing and scaling together. Every contribution helps shape it.

Contact GAILE@rmit.edu.au

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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