Items with category:Reflections
Find out how to embrace educator doubt and uncertainty
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Xin Liu reflects on our sixth seminar for 2026, 'Are you afraid of the doubt? Educator uncertainty in fully online programs'. In this seminar Professor Mollie Dollinger unpacked what educator uncertainty means for fully online programs in an age of generative AI and asked, โAre you afraid of the doubt?โ. Xin finds that embracing honesty can help educators manage doubt.
Learning, Feedback and Community: My reflections from HERDSA 2026
In this post we hear from CRADLE PhD student Michelle Pedlow about her experience at the HERDSA 2026 conference in Singapore. This was Michelle's first HERDSA conference and first conference as a CRADLE PhD student. Michelle is exploringย feedback as a longitudinal interpretive process.
Find out what CRADLE PhD Pearl discovered at AHE 2026
In this post we hear from CRADLE PhD student Pearl Kang about her experiences at the 2026 Assessment in Higher Education Conference in Manchester, UK. Pearlโs research focuses on reviewing ways to help students develop evaluative judgement via pedagogical approaches. Pearl reported on her research findings at the conference and she outlines the key highlights of the conference.
Saunas, seagulls and feedback – my first international conference
In this post we hear from CRADLE PhD student Turkan Istencioฤlu about her experience at the 2026 EARLI SIG 4 & 11 Conference in Helsinki. Turkanโs research focuses on Teacher Feedback Literacy in higher education, specifically investigating how educators design and implement feedback to improve student learning. She shared her research outputs in her presentation at the conference. Was it worth the jet lag?
Validity and authenticity: How to treat cognition and AI
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Sky Kusumastuti offers her reflections on our fourth seminar for 2026, โEntangled intelligence? Distributed cognition, AI agents, and assessment validityโ. This seminar challenged the audience to consider some difficult questions around assessment and GenAI, while acknowledging that we may not know the answers yet.
Beyond grades: the depth of the challenge universities face
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Lincoln Then James offers his reflections on our third seminar for 2026, โIs it time to move beyond grades?โ After situating grades in their historical context, this presentation challenged attendees to reconsider long-held beliefs about grades and whether there is still a place for grades in todayโs universities.
