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A new chapter for Beyond the Hive

Hello, welcome to Beyond the Hive.

Beyond the hype. Beyond the herd. Beyond the Hive.

ELT Specialist grew out of founder and director Bea Segura Harvey’s roots in English language teaching. Our work has since reached right across education. The old name stopped fitting. The new one says exactly what we’re about.

We’re now Beyond the Hive.

Everyone’s got an opinion on AI in education. Most of it is hype or nerves. We built our whole approach on something harder: thinking for yourself, questioning the crowd, and making calls you can defend.

The name says it out loud. We’re done following the swarm. We help educators and organisations decide, with a clear head, where AI belongs and where it doesn’t.

Our work brings together professional learning, consultancy, and course and product development, led by critical thinking, ethical practice and teachers’ own expertise.

The new website is on its way. Until it lands, start here.

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For sharp, no-hype thinking on AI in education, a first look at what we’re building next, and the occasional strong opinion, follow us on LinkedIn and subscribe to our newsletter on Substack.

Turn your questions about AI into real practice

Our Level 3 Award in AI for Teaching Professionals, delivered with NILE, helps educators interrogate AI and build a plan grounded in their own teaching.

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Develop your AI policy.

Use our Policy Support GPT in ChatGPT to work through your institution’s AI policy.

How to get started

  1. Open the Policy Support GPT using the button below.
  2. Sign in to your ChatGPT account, or create an account if you don’t have one.
  3. If prompted, add the GPT to your account, then select “Use GPT”.
  4. Follow the prompts in the conversation to work through the policy development process.
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AI Policy Auditor app

Review your AI policy against a set of criteria, get scores and identify areas that may need strengthening, including risk and data protection.

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From , Policy Support will be changing to a plugin. We’ll update this page with the new link and access instructions.

The people behind Beyond the Hive

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