The Gen AI Skills Continuum is an interactive framework that maps the skills educators and students need to use AI effectively and ethically – from first steps to leading practice. It helps you:
Build awareness and begin exploring AI. You learn to use basic functions, understand key ethical issues, and try simple AI-supported tasks.
Refine how you use AI. You adapt AI to different contexts, critically evaluate outputs, and contribute to conversations about responsible use.
Co-create with AI and lead others. You personalise learning experiences, integrate AI into workflows and teams, and engage with the broader societal and ethical implications of AI.
Build awareness and begin exploring generative AI. You learn to use basic functions, understand key ethical issues, and try simple AI-supported tasks.
Refine how you use AI. You adapt AI to different contexts, critically evaluate outputs, and contribute to conversations about responsible use.
Co-create with AI and lead others. You personalise learning experiences, integrate AI into workflows and teams, and engage with the broader societal and ethical implications of AI.
The framework is designed to be useful at every level — whether you're an individual, part of a teaching team, or thinking about your whole program.
Reflect on where you are now, set learning goals, and track your development over time.
Identify the AI skills embedded in your curriculum, scaffold activities to build those skills, and make expectations explicit for students.
Sequence AI skill development from introductory through to mastering, ensure consistency across courses, and embed AI capability into your graduate attributes.
Discussions about AI-proofing assessment tasks have been a mainstay in education since ChatGPT dropped into our lives and classrooms, ranging from debating rubric wording to redesigning tasks and trying to stay one step ahead of the tools our students are already using.
To make the framework as accessible and useful as possible, the Gen AI Skills Continuum is available as an interactive web-based tool; built for educators to explore at their own pace, in their own time.
The tool lets you move through the continuum in a way that makes sense for you. Rather than reading a static document, you can browse by stage, explore specific competencies, and dig into the skills that are most relevant to where you are right now.
For each skill, you'll find:
Whether you're exploring generative AI for the first time or looking to extend what you're already doing, the tool meets you where you are and gives you what you need to take the next step.
The Gen AI Skills Continuum is a shared language for AI capability in education — and we're building it together. We'd love to connect with educators, researchers and innovators across RMIT and beyond to grow a living library of practice. Share your case studies, mapped activities, discipline exemplars and resources. Every contribution helps shape it.
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