BAIT-HEI
BAIT-HEI: Brilliant Artificial Intelligence Toolkit for Higher Education Instructors
BAIT-HEI is reshaping higher education across Europe by helping academic staff harness artificial intelligence in thoughtful, responsible, and inspiring ways. Rather than seeing AI as a tool of convenience, BAIT-HEI treats it as a creative companion—one that supports learning, teaching, and assessment while maintaining human values, fairness, and academic integrity.
Over three years, a diverse coalition of universities and educational organisations will co-create training, tools, and operational supports so that educators can design smarter curricula, teach more engagingly, and assess more meaningfully using AI.
Curricula Designed with AI Insight
AI today offers more than automation—it offers insight. With BAIT-HEI, instructors will explore how AI can assist in structuring course frameworks, defining learning outcomes, and setting module durations in ways that are aligned with both educational goals and emerging technologies. The aim is to build curricula that are flexible, relevant, and designed for the future.
Teaching Reimagined through Engagement
Teaching methods evolve when AI is used with intent. From crafting group or research-based assignments to deploying AI-powered tools for presentation or exploration, BAIT-HEI supports educators to make learning more interactive, inclusive, and responsive. These pedagogies don’t replace human interaction—they enrich it.
Assessment with Clarity and Integrity
Good assessment reflects what and how students learn. BAIT-HEI helps devise fair, transparent assessment strategies: from quizzes and multiple-choice questions to essays, grading scales, and student feedback, all underpinned by AI-based tools. The goal is to make evaluation meaningful, timely, and aligned with desired learning outcomes.
Open Resources & Free Access
Knowledge is most powerful when it’s shared. BAIT-HEI features an Open Educational Resource platform accessible in multiple languages, freely available without registration. It hosts the full suite of project outputs—training materials, toolkits, guidelines—so that any educator can explore, adapt, and apply them.
Preparing Tomorrow’s Educators
As AI becomes more deeply embedded in academic ecosystems—from student learning to research to administration—it is vital that instructors are not only technically competent but also ethically aware, adaptive, and inspired. BAIT-HEI nurtures a community of educators confident in using AI, skilled in innovation, and ready to guide learners in a rapidly changing world.
BAIT-HEI is about transformation—infusing higher education with intelligent tools, creative practices, and open access, so that the entire ecosystem benefits. With AI as a thoughtful partner, the project seeks to harmonise technology, pedagogy, and human potential into something stronger than any part alone.