15 September 2025

Thursday 23 October at 2pm

New Directions in AI Research and Practice: Webinar #3

The proliferation of generative AI (GenAI) continues to pose challenges for educators seeking to ensure their assessments remain valid and secure. Bringing together leading assessment and academic integrity scholars and practitioners, this webinar will discuss the urgent question of how to design secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI. It’s the third session in our three-part series: New Directions in AI Research and Practice.

• When: Thursday 23 October

• Time: 2pm – 3pm (AEST)

• Where: Online

• Cost: This is a free event

Secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI

The proliferation of generative AI (GenAI) continues to pose challenges for educators seeking to ensure their assessments remain valid and secure. Bringing together leading assessment and academic integrity scholars and practitioners, this webinar will discuss the urgent question of how to design secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI.

Program-level approaches play a critical role in securing assessment, but their success seems to depend on what happens at the level of individual tasks. After all, it is difficult to see how course-wide reform can compensate if assignments themselves are vulnerable.

The focus of this webinar is therefore on assessment change at the task level, asking: what kinds of assessment tasks work well – and which are no longer fit for purpose – now that students can readily access GenAI?

Facilitated by CRADLE’s Dr Thomas Corbin, this panel will look beyond in-person exams to highlight both emerging strategies and enduring principles for secure assessment in a time of GenAI. The panel will offer practical insights for educators grappling with today’s rapidly changing assessment landscape, and consider future directions for research and practice.

Join our panellists online for a thought-provoking discussion

Professor Phillip Dawson, Professor and Co-Director, CRADLE, Deakin University

Professor Cath Ellis, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Quality and Integrity, Western Sydney University

Professor Danny Liu, Professor of Educational Technologies, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Portfolio, University of Sydney

Kane Murdoch, Head of Conduct, Appeals and Misconduct, Macquarie University

Join our panel online for this third webinar in CRADLE’s New Directions in AI Research and Practice series

Don’t miss webinar #2:

Wednesday 17 September at 2.30pm

Assessment design in higher education: Changing practices for a world with AI

This year’s CRADLE International Symposium – ‘Assessment design in higher education: Changing practices for a world with AI’ – seeks to draw from theory and empirical research to unpack the broad range of contentions emerging about AI and assessment in higher education. As a pivotal highlight of the Symposium program we are pleased to invite you to an interactive public panel event.

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New Directions in AI Research and Practice

As generative artificial intelligence continues to transform higher education, the research landscape has begun to transition from speculative perspectives toward deeper empirical and theoretical insights. This webinar series brings together leading researchers to discuss what is being learned about AI’s impact on teaching, learning, and assessment, and to chart pathways forward in both research and practice. The panels in this series will speak to three critical facets of higher education in a time of AI: how students are working with AI, changing assessment design practices, and assessment security. We hope that you can join us for this series of rich and timely discussions. Register now or catch up later on our YouTube channel.

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