Educational discourse often conveys ideals of perfection, via optimisation, seamlessness, and ‘guaranteed’ learning outcomes. Teaching and learning are, thereby, framed as linear, controllable proc...

The emergence of widely available Generative AI (GenAI) in higher education demands nuanced responses that acknowledge the diversity of student contexts, conditions, practices and perspectives. Develo...

Browse all journals

Universities are responsible for safeguarding the value of qualifications through assessment that generates trustworthy evidence about what students know and can do. Public trust in higher educatio...

Embark on a journey to delve into the intricate tapestry of a vibrant landscape, where each realm excels with vital, comprehensive detail, about the future of healthcare with AI. #MedEducUnleashed

This series is a new, international book series dedicated to postdigital science and education. It brings together a rapidly growing community

The rapid integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into educational contexts has presented both opportunities and challenges for students seeking and using feedback. While AI-gener...

AbstractBroad claims about the relationship between memory and photography, media, and the Internet are often based on thin evidence, derived mainly from a

Ideas of space within higher education are changing, influenced by pedagogical innovation, emerging technologies, and the experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is most obvious in the expansion...

Most research on feedback in higher education focuses on evaluative feedback and its recipience, uptake, and enactment. Evaluative feedback information includes judgments, critiques and suggestions...

Exploring how students are experiencing and making sense of AI

This series is a new, international book series dedicated to postdigital science and education. It brings together a rapidly growing community

Enthusiasts claim that authentic tasks boost work-readiness, promote inclusion and diminish cheating, but the evidence remains unclear, says Tim Fawns

Enthusiasts claim that authentic tasks boost work-readiness, promote inclusion and diminish cheating, but the evidence remains unclear, says Tim Fawns

Enthusiasts claim that authentic tasks boost work-readiness, promote inclusion and diminish cheating, but the evidence remains unclear, says Tim Fawns

Authentic assessment is often positioned as an educational panacea, invoked in response to a broad range of complex problems. This paper considers authentic assessment in relation to three key chal...

Last week, I went to Sydney, where I was part of two events about AI in education, both of which were exemplary in terms of the constructive and collegial attitude of the delegates. One event - Learni...

Click on the article title to read more.

What is assessment for good in the current higher education landscape? Assessment does not just “drive learning”. It plays a role in shaping students’ orientations towards future learning, beyon...

Here, teachers and students of an online, postgraduate course, “Current Issues in Clinical Education” (part of the MSc Clinical Education at the University of Edinburgh), consider co-parti...

When designing assessment, it’s problematic to focus too much on technology or to hold on too tightly to particular methods. Assessment methods such as viva voce, pen and paper exams, practical exam...

Rather than getting bogged down in discussions about ChatGPT-proofing assessment, detecting AI in student work, or having students acknowledge how they have used it in their assignments, can we expand...