This workshop aims to: Introduce participants to a human-centred framework for evaluating educational technologies. Explore how this framework has been adapted to assess AI tools in teaching and learning. Critically evaluate the parameters
This workshop aims to: Introduce participants to a human-centred framework for evaluating educational technologies. Explore how this framework has been adapted to assess AI tools in teaching and learning. Critically evaluate the parameters of the AI evaluation framework- what’s missing, where do we need to go next- and contribute to collaborative input for cross-institutional development. Facilitate collaborative evaluation of AI tools across key dimensions: pedagogical value, ethical considerations, and impact on human expertise.
What if leadership in higher education wasn’t about position or power—but about purpose, connection, and collective impact? This workshop invites you to think differently about leadership. It offers space to reflect, write, and reimagine
What if leadership in higher education wasn’t about position or power—but about purpose, connection, and collective impact? This workshop invites you to think differently about leadership. It offers space to reflect, write, and reimagine your leadership practice in a way that is relational, values-led, and grounded in community. Together, we will challenge dominant ideas—such as the lone hero, top-down command, or leadership as control—and instead explore approaches that centre listening, inclusion, and alignment across roles, disciplines, and initiatives. Designed for educators, researchers, professional staff, and academic leaders at all levels, the workshop creates a collegial and constructive space for deep thinking and real conversation. Participants will engage with structured frameworks to identify their leadership contexts, surface the challenges and opportunities they face, and explore what it means to bring people along to do hard things—together. Through guided writing, narrative development, and critically constructive peer coaching, this is a space for people who want to lead with clarity, kindness, and commitment to shared purpose.
Feedback is a cornerstone of effective learning, yet it remains one of the most persistently complex challenges in higher education, for educators and students alike. This workshop introduces current thinking about student-centred feedback
Feedback is a cornerstone of effective learning, yet it remains one of the most persistently complex challenges in higher education, for educators and students alike. This workshop introduces current thinking about student-centred feedback practices, and then explores the implications for how we can design valuable (and sustainable) feedback encounters across the course and through technologies. The workshop has four broad sections: Understanding feedback: This section briefly explains current thinking about feedback as a student-centred process. It introduces concepts of evaluative judgment, and feedback literacy. Building off these concepts we begin to identify a series of heuristics for our feedback designs. Designing for a feedback-rich course: Using research-informed design heuristics, educators and learning designers will work collaboratively to audit and reshape their own courses to support a feedback-rich experience, one that builds student agency, feeds forward, and fosters continuous engagement. Along the way we will tackle questions such as how we can build early and frequent feedback encounters, and explore examples of impactful exemplar strategies, AI formative feedback, and peer feedback. Sustainable feedback delivery: This section of the workshop narrows to the practice of teacher-delivery of feedback. The provision of feedback by teachers is a time consuming, effortful and emotional task. This workshop draws on a decade of research into audio, video, and screencast-based feedback and will offer explicit guidance on how to create these rich feedback artefacts, and how to do it efficiently. Through hands-on activities, participants will create their own multimedia feedback artefacts, testing sustainable workflows and content principles. Debating the role of AI in feedback: The workshop will close with a discussion of the emerging possibilities of AI feedback agents. While these rapidly evolving tools raise exciting possibilities for scalability and responsiveness, they also invite critical reflection. Participants will be introduced to some examples of AI-generated feedback practices and debate its strengths and limitations to those of human-mediated responses. By the end of this workshop, participants will have: Applied feedback theory to design a feedback-rich course tailored to their own teaching context; Produced audio, video, or screencast feedback artefacts testing sustainable workflows and research-based principles; Debated the potential and limitations of AI-generated feedback. This workshop is designed for educators, learning designers, and researchers seeking practical, research-informed, and critically reflective approaches to enhancing feedback practices through digital tools.
