You’re invited! Join us to celebrate 10 years of CRADLE
5 September 2025
Wednesday 15 October at 2pm
The road behind and the journey ahead: CRADLE 10th anniversary celebration event
The Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) celebrates its 10th birthday in 2025. Join the team to reflect on CRADLE’s successes and find what still lies ahead.
- When: Wednesday 15 October 2025
- Time: 2pm – 3.30pm (AEST)
- Where: Online and at Deakin Downtown
- Cost: This is a free event
From its modest beginnings with Foundation Director Professor David Boud, CRADLE has grown in reputation and influence as its members have pursued a research agenda encompassing assessing for learning, learning in a digital world, and learning through, and for, work. CRADLE is now internationally recognised for its work on feedback for learning, feedback literacies, evaluative judgement, assessment for inclusion, and higher education in a time of generative artificial intelligence.
What is the CRADLE model and how does it seek to influence teaching, learning and assessment in higher education? In what areas is it making a difference?
Join the current CRADLE team – co-directors Professor David Boud and Professor Phillip Dawson, Professor Margaret Bearman, Associate Professor Joanna Tai, Dr Juuso Nieminen, Dr Thomas Corbin, and Dr Jack Walton – for an interactive discussion of CRADLE’s successes and what still lies ahead, and celebrate our 10th anniversary with us!
After the seminar we will have tea/coffee and cake and for those attending in person we would love for you to stay and celebrate with us and share your memories of CRADLE over our journey.
About the CRADLE Team
About CRADLE
The Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) was established by the Foundation Director, Deakin Distinguished Professor David Boud. The vision for CRADLE was for a small team of focused researchers to establish Deakin University as a global leader in higher education research, connected to Deakin’s own teaching and learning agenda.
This vision has remained unchanged. CRADLE undertakes and disseminates groundbreaking research on assessment and digital learning. This research has – and continues to – influence teaching and learning within Deakin University and across the higher education sector.
Our focused research agenda aims to:
| Develop world-leading conceptualisations relevant to assessment and digital learning |
| Explore the influence of these conceptualisations empirically across multiple contexts |
| Critically and collaboratively investigate educational concerns and innovations relevant to Deakin’s strategic agenda |
| Set the agenda for national and international conversations about assessment and digital learning in higher education |
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