Join us to discover how assessment design is changing for an AI world

8 August 2025

Wednesday 17 September at 2.30pm

New Directions in AI Research and Practice: Webinar #2

What, if anything, has changed about designing university assessment in a world with AI? This webinar, part of the 2025 CRADLE International Symposium, brings together an expert panel to explore the broad range of contentions emerging around AI and assessment in higher education. It’s the second session in our three-part series: New Directions in AI Research and Practice.

When: Wednesday 17 September

Time: 2.30pm – 4pm (AEST)

Where: Deakin Downtown or Online

Cost: This is a free event

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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.

Designing university assessment to account for the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has proved to be difficult and contentious. Across the globe, many academics are making claims that assessment designs and systems need to be completely reconsidered. But the fundamentals of assessment in terms of its purposes may still hold true and many of the problems that are faced in implementing new regimes are challenges that already existed. So what, if anything, has changed? What are the tensions that continue to bedevil us? What conceptual or theoretical framings help us make sense of the things that change and the things that stay the same?

Facilitated by CRADLE’s Professor Phillip Dawson, this panel discussion will feature a national and international cast of eminent higher education assessment researchers. The panel will reflect on the discussions held throughout the symposium and offer potential directions for future research in the intersections between university assessment and AI.

Join our panellists for a thought-provoking discussion

Professor Jason Lodge, Director of the Learning, Instruction, and Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland

Assistant Professor Jiahui (Jess) Luo, Faculty of Education and Human Development, the Education University of Hong Kong

Professor Jan McArthur, Professor in Higher Education and Social Justice and Head of Department in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University

Associate Professor Nicole Pepperell, Teaching & Curriculum Team (TACT), Education Portfolio, University of Technology Sydney

Join our panel at Deakin Downtown or online for this second webinar in CRADLE’s New Directions in AI Research and Practice series

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Webinar #1: Friday 29 August at 1pm

Student perspectives on AI in higher education

While much of the debate about AI in higher education continues to focus on institutional policies and concerns for academic integrity, less attention has been paid to the stories of students themselves. This panel will discuss what has been learned so far about students’ perspectives and practices for studying in a world where AI has become commonplace.

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. Keep an eye out for future webinars as they are announced.

#1	Student perspectives on AI in higher education	29 August	Register Now
#2	Assessment design in higher education: Changing practices for a world with artificial intelligence	17 September	Register Now
#3	Secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI	TBC