CRADLE Seminar Series 2025
Join Deakin University’s free hybrid/online seminars on assessment and digital learning throughout the year.
Deakin University’s CRADLE Seminar Series 2025, organised by the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, invites everyone to join its free hybrid/online seminars on assessment and digital learning throughout the year. The series has been running since 2018.
In 2024, the series featured nine seminars on topics such as feedback literacy in doctoral studies and the role of AI in authentic assessment. Recordings from 2021 onwards are available on YouTube.
All 2025 times and dates are provisional. Subscribe to CRADLE blog for updates.
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Programmatic Assessment. Insights from Theory and Practice (Seminar #1 2025)
Presenter: Dr Liesbeth Baartmann
Date: Thursday 20 March 2025
Time: 12 – 1.30 pm (NZST)
Programmatic Assessment is seen as a promising approach to align assessment with Higher Education goals such as inclusiveness, employability and assessment for learning. Its value has been evidenced in the Netherlands in practice-based research carried out in a professional learning community consisting of about 25 higher education programmes. In this presentation Liesbeth shares the theoretical principles of programmatic assessment and how these principles have been worked out in practice in design choices made by programmes in different domains. Lessons learned regarding student learning and decision-making will also be discussed.
What is the role of GenAI in effective feedback? (Seminar #2 2025)
Presenters: Thomas Corbin, Gene Flenady and Joanna Tai
Date: Wednesday 9 April
Time: 4 – 5.30 pm (NZST)
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.
Why authenticity matters: Helping students to find meaning and value in assessment (Seminar #3 2025)
Presenter: Dr Tim Chambers
Date: Wednesday 4 June 2025
Time: 4 – 5.30 pm (NZST)