Ten Dimension AI Readiness Framework 2025
The Ten Dimension AI Readiness Framework, developed by the Digital Education Council 2025 AI Working Group, offers a comprehensive approach to integrating AI in higher education. Co-created by 27 member institutions from 17 countries and led by our Director of CEI, Sean McMinn, this framework provides a shared structure for assessing AI readiness across ten dimensions.
The tool enables higher education institutions to thoroughly evaluate their current state of AI readiness, identify gaps, and align AI initiatives with long-term goals in teaching, research, governance, and operations. Additionally, the framework includes real case studies contributed by member institutions, highlighting common challenges and scalable solutions.
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DEC AI Literacy Framework 2025
Designed to support higher education institutions, the framework provides structured guidance to develop AI literacy approaches that equip individuals with both foundational AI competencies and industry-specific applications.
The framework defines five key dimensions of AI literacy:
- Understanding AI and Data
- Critical Thinking and Judgement
- Ethical and Responsible Use
- Human-centricity, Emotional Intelligence, and Creativity
- Domain Expertise
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Digital Education Council Global AI Faculty Survey 2025
This survey aims to provide insights into faculty use and perceptions around artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education to inform decision-making for higher education leadership. When read together with the DEC Global AI Student Survey, higher education institution leaders can begin to paint a comprehensive picture of attitudes towards AI in their institutions and the level of work that needs to be undertaken.
The report covers faculty’s overall use and perceptions of AI, awareness of AI’s impact on teaching and learning, perceived future-readiness for AI integration in teaching, and judgement of institutional AI guidelines and communication.
This survey has gathered 1,681 responses, from faculty members of 52 participating institutions across 28 countries, offering a diverse range of faculty viewpoints on AI in education. With institutions looking to integrate AI into their curricula and teaching, this survey aims to inform institution leadership of faculty needs and perceptions regarding AI use.
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Digital Education Council Global AI Student Survey 2024
This survey aims to provide insights into student perceptions around artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education to inform decision-making for university leadership. The report covers the status of AI usage and readiness, student perception of AI use cases, expectations and preferences on university actions on AI, satisfaction with institutions’ AI adoption, concerns and key attributes for AI use.
This survey has gathered 3839 responses across 16 countries, from bachelor, masters, and doctorate students in multiple fields of study, offering a diverse range of student viewpoints on AI in education. With universities both keen to integrate AI into their institutions and wary of possible liabilities and concerns that this integration may bring, this survey aims to be a guide to take action.
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