Section outline

  • We are pleased to welcome you to this day-long workshop at the Hotel InterContinental Dhaka, organised under the British Council’s Transnational Education (TNE) initiative as part of the project “Generative AI for Good". The workshop is available on this Zoom link.

    Supported by the British Council’s Going Global Partnerships Programme, this workshop aims to explore how AI-driven tools and inclusive pedagogical practices can enhance access to tertiary education—particularly for underrepresented groups in Bangladesh. In addition, it seeks to gather your input on how the use of AI might develop in the Bangladeshi HE and TVET context.

    The workshop will feature sessions led by distinguished resource persons from Nottingham Trent University (UK), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KSA), American International University-Bangladesh (BD), BUET (BD), and Jahangirnagar University (BD).

        • Welcome and introductions
          Housekeeping
          Signing consent forms

          • Prof Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman
          • Prof M. Shamim Kaiser
          • Prof Risala Tasin Khan
      • Interactive sharing session discussing lived experiences related to digital divides, gender biases, and sociocultural barriers.

        For this session, we will ask that attendees form into groups/tables (8-10 people). We will continue to use these groups in the afternoon sessions.

        • Prof Risala Tasin Khan

        This session invites the attendees to share their lived experiences and concerns, particularly around digital divides, gender biases, and sociocultural barriers [1].

        You will have about half an hour to reflect on their lived experiences. Then each table appoints a reporter to give a 4-5 min reflection on these experiences back to the meeting as a whole.

        We are specifically aiming to hear the voices of women, students from disadvantaged backgrounds & local stakeholder organisations, in addition relevant university staff, GenAI experts.

        We want to ensure session facilitation is sensitive and participatory, using local languages and culturally familiar scenarios, and allows anonymous or smaller-group contributions to support comfort and candour [2].

        [1] Guidance for generative AI in education and research - UNESCO Digital Library

        [2] How educators can use Gen AI to promote inclusion and widen access | SRHE Blog

  • Afternoon (Interactive) Session

    Development of practical, context-sensitive guidelines for the ethical use of GenAI to support HE and TVET students, covering:
    • Ethical and safety protocols (Prof. Risala Tasin Khan to lead)
    • Curriculum alignment for the Bangladeshi context (Dr. Md Saef Ullah Miah to lead)
    • Quality assurance frameworks (Dr. Md Saef Ullah Miah to lead)
    • Integration of EDI principles (Prof. Risala Tasin Khan to lead)

    Group Activities:
    • Collaborative brainstorming on draft guidelines
    • Discussions on consent, fairness, transparency, language barriers, and redress mechanisms
    • Formulating actionable recommendations and identifying follow-up responsibilities

      • Ethical literacy exercises: Include activities that build critical awareness, empower students to audit AI use, and identify pathways for continuous feedback and guideline improvement [1].

        Group brainstorming: Facilitate group sessions to propose, critique, and refine draft guidelines tailored to Bangladeshi values, legal constraints, and practical realities (e.g., consent, language, fairness, transparency, redress mechanisms) [2].

        We need to ensure all attendees have sight of the current guidelines – and a means to edit, tune and record their GenAI guideline iterations (https://accessible.academy).

        In brief, the outcome of these sessions will help us to tune the existing GenAI guidelines for staff and students. We have analysed the outcomes of the online workshop of the 27th October using the meeting transcript and derived a set of reflections and themes which are listed in below (Drafting and Tuning Guidelines).

        We have analysed these reflections to understand how we can tune the existing guidelines (Emergent GenAI Guidelines).

        The goal here is to use the reflections from both workshops (27th October and 9th December), to derive a set of GenAI guidelines, some of which will be a direct mapping to our existing guidelines, some tuned to the Bangladeshi context, and others entirely new.

        [1] [2] AI Ethical Guidelines | EDUCAUSE

    • Quick Checklist:

      ✔ Disclose AI use.
      ✔ Protect privacy.
      ✔ Verify references.
      ✔ Ensure accessibility.
      ✔ Avoid bias and misuse.

    • Please find below the full video from the workshop: