Supporting RMIT educators and students amid a changing digital environment

Supporting RMIT educators and students amid a changing digital environment

RMIT University has launched a sector-leading framework for educators to build their artificial intelligence capabilities and better prepare students for a digitally transformed workforce.

The ‘RMIT Gen AI Skills Continuum’ will support university educators to integrate artificial intelligence into their usual teaching practice, both in design and delivery. 

The new framework will also ensure students are prepared for future jobs, with nearly 90 per cent of employers anticipating that AI and technology will transform their business by 2030, according to the World Economic Forum. 

As AI use becomes more common in supporting learning, building educators' capability helps keep assessment design meaningful, and the framework strengthens our commitment to preserving and assuring the quality of learning

Importantly, the new framework will give educators a consistent shared language to discuss and implement AI in the university environment as the technology continues to rapidly evolve.  

Led by RMIT’s Generative AI Lab for Education (GAILE), RMIT this week convened senior leaders and digital experts from all Victorian universities at a roundtable, hosted in partnership with Amazon Web Services, where the framework was launched and discussed. 

RMIT Head of AI – Education Dale Leszczynski emphasised the importance of universities collaborating on the role of AI and how it complements human expertise in learning and teaching. 

"As generative AI becomes more embedded in education, it’s important we’re having shared conversations about the distinct roles of educators and AI. Building this understanding helps us use AI to enhance human-led learning," he said. 

"The new RMIT framework supports conversations at the university, helping educators build capability over time from where they are today, and guiding them to engage with AI thoughtfully as part of purposeful and responsible integration in learning and teaching."

AI Roundtable

RMIT Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Alec Cameron said: "As Australia’s largest dual-sector institution, with a long history of adapting to provide the skills of the day, we are well positioned to lead the sector and guide our communities as they navigate an AI-enabled world. 

"RMIT’s approach is AI with purpose: equipping our staff, students and society at large with the capability, confidence and ethical judgement to navigate this generational change." 

This is the latest initiative from RMIT’s GAILE, which was established with a sector-facing mission: to guide and enable human-centred adoption of AI in education. 

Earlier this year, GAILE hosted the GeneratED conference, where educators from across the Victorian higher education sector shared thoughtful, creative and practical examples of AI being explored in learning and teaching. 

More information about GAILE is available here.  

18 June 2026

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