2017 Symposium
New opportunities: re-imagining assessment in a digital world
In October 2017, Professor David Boud and CRADLE staff hosted two days of high-level research conversations on the topic of ‘New opportunities: re-imagining assessment in a digital world’.





The symposium explored how assessment for learning can be refreshed and redesigned in a digital landscape. The symposium explored the questions of:
- What are the assessment and feedback challenges that we can now address more readily?
- What can we now conceive of in assessment that was previously beyond our imagination?
- What research agendas do we need to explore these new opportunities? How can we move from exciting innovation to routine practice?

The symposium and the associated book, Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World, provides a different way of thinking about assessment in a digital world. It considers how technologies and assessment can be more than the sum of their parts.
Symposium Delegates
| Dr Yoon Jeon Kim Research scientist, Teaching Systems Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts, USA | Dr Lois Harris Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Education and the Arts, Central Queensland University |
| Professor Dirk Ifenthaler Chair and Professor for Learning, Design and Technology, University of Mannheim, Germany | Professor Sue Bennett Professor, Head of School, School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong |
| Professor Dragan Gasevic Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics, Moray House School of Education and School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland | Dr Edd Pitt Lecturer in Higher Education & Academic Practice & PGCHE, Programme Director, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK |
| Associate Professor Abelardo Pardo Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, The University of Sydney |













