What is the role of GenAI in effective feedback?

17 March 2025

Wednesday 9 April at 2pm

CRADLE Seminar Series 2025: Seminar #2

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) systems demonstrate impressive feedback capabilities. However, claims to its potential overlook a fundamental aspect of effective feedback between humans: recognition between teacher and student. In this seminar Dr Thomas Corbin, Dr Gene Flenady, and Associate Professor Joanna Tai will critically examine the role of GenAI in higher education feedback, drawing on both the established feedback literature and philosophical work on recognition. In doing so we will introduce a novel framework distinguishing between “recognitive” and “extra-recognitive” feedback, which offers a means of appropriately integrating GenAI into pedagogical practice.

Dr Thomas Corbin, Dr Gene Flenady, Associate Professor Joanna Tai

When: Wednesday 9 April 2025

Time: 2pm – 3.30pm (AEST)

Where: Online and at Deakin Downtown

Cost: This is a free event

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Effective feedback is predicated on trusting and respectful relationships, which are in turn grounded in mutual recognition of shared vulnerability and agency. GenAI systems, lacking the capacity for genuine recognition, operate outside of this relational framework. Therefore, while valuable, GenAI feedback cannot fully replicate the pedagogical efficacy of human-provided feedback. These limitations may, however, at the same time offer unique pedagogical opportunities. For example, GenAI systems could provide a unique environment for students to receive and engage with feedback, which may help students build confidence and prepare for more meaningful engagement in recognitive feedback practices with peers and teachers.

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About Thomas Corbin

Thomas Corbin is a Research Fellow at CRADLE, working primarily on the topics of GenAI and Assessment. Prior to this role Thomas was employed as a lecturer in the Philosophy Department of Macquarie University.

About Gene Flenady

Gene Flenady is a lecturer in philosophy at Monash University. His research concerns the structure and social conditions of human rational agency, mobilising the resources of the German idealist tradition to normatively assess the implications of new technologies for meaningful work and tertiary pedagogy.

About Joanna Tai

Joanna Tai has a background in higher and health professions education. Joanna’s research interests include student perspectives on learning and assessment from university to the workplace, peer-assisted learning, feedback, assessment literacy, developing capacity for evaluative judgement and research synthesis.