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Kim Flintoff
April 24, 2012 4:47 AM
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It is with pleasure we introduce Curtin Learning and Teaching’s newly formed Learning Futures Team. The new area, Led by Associate Professor David Gibson, has been created using a combination of existing and new functions.
The area is responsible for strategic projects and the integration of learning futures for the University.
There are four key areas in the Learning Futures team:
• Innovation Studio • Partnerships and Pathways • UniReady • Insight Centre - Learning Analytics
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Peter Mellow
from AI in Education #AIinED
February 24, 6:04 PM
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A Pew survey also found that more than 1 in 10 U.S. teens use AI for emotional support or advice, and that they are more hopeful about the technology than adults.
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Peter Mellow
December 2, 2025 4:53 PM
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America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
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Peter Mellow
October 25, 2025 5:06 PM
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Dozens of students were caught trying to cheat in last year’s VCE exams, using anything from concealed mobile phones to writing notes on their skin to gain an edge.
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Peter Mellow
October 6, 2025 5:29 PM
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Victoria is being urged to follow the lead of other states and ban powerful calculators from being used in final year exams to improve maths understanding.
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Peter Mellow
from Educational Leadership
September 29, 2025 6:40 PM
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Students and experts are calling for fundamental reform of the VCE, arguing it’s no longer fit for purpose.
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Peter Mellow
March 3, 2025 4:56 PM
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The notion that letter grades enhance learning was something that teachers, administrators and parents merely presumed. If every classroom from elementary schools to public universities was assigning grades, they must be a meaningful measure of learning. Besides, rewarding students with an A for doing schoolwork, while threatening them with an F for not doing it, seems like a smart way to motivate youngsters to master algebra or English.
But using grades as both a measure and a motivator was an inherently flawed pursuit. For starters, grades are far less consistent and reliable than their simplicity implies. A blood pressure reading will be the same in Austin as in Durham, North Carolina. But a Python coding assignment or an essay on the causes of the Spanish Civil War might receive different grades at the University of Texas than at Duke University. Ample evidence shows that grading can vary considerably from professor to professor even within a university; that some instructors aren’t even consistent with themselves, assigning different marks for identical work; and that extraneous factors like penmanship and a student’s attractiveness can affect grades.
More important, the letter system ran smack into Goodhart’s Law,an adage named for British economist Charles Goodhart, which holds that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases being a good measure. Grades began as a tool for assessing learning but quickly became the point of the exercise. For many students, the goal of school isn’t to learn. It’s to get an A.
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Peter Mellow
November 27, 2024 4:20 PM
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The exams include English, mathematics, biology, economics and legal studies. They also include ancient history, dance, drama, food studies, geography, media and physical education.
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Peter Mellow
November 21, 2024 3:32 PM
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A quarter of the cheating allegations in 2023 were from students undertaking business subject exams, including legal studies, accounting and economics.
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Peter Mellow
from AI in Education #AIinED
October 28, 2024 1:05 AM
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A robust honor code—and abundant institutional resources—can make a difference.
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Peter Mellow
September 8, 2024 11:45 PM
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Sydney University was forced to close semester two orientation stalls when it discovered they were infiltrated by cheating providers.
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Peter Mellow
from AI in Education #AIinED
August 19, 2024 6:44 PM
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Colleges still don’t have a plan.
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Peter Mellow
August 14, 2024 5:38 PM
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Assessment design for a time of artificial intelligence - Download as a PDF or view online for free
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Peter Mellow
from AI in Education #AIinED
February 26, 7:31 PM
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A young tech entrepreneur launched the tool Einstein this week, marketing it as a way to free students from busywork—and triggering robust faculty debate. Einstein’s creator says that was the whole point. After this story was published, Paliwal said he received a cease and desist letter from Instructure, which owns Canvas, and has since taken down Einstein’s website.
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Peter Mellow
February 16, 5:21 PM
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The revelations come as the university regulator issues an urgent warning about contract cheaters on Australian campuses.
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Peter Mellow
November 15, 2025 6:07 PM
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From bathroom checks to having spare pens at the ready, exam invigilators maintain the calm and ensure students have what they need to sit their final exams.
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Peter Mellow
from AI in Education #AIinED
October 8, 2025 7:14 PM
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An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.
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Peter Mellow
from AI in Education #AIinED
September 29, 2025 9:18 PM
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A chatbot can produce text, but it can’t sustain a probing conversation about your reasoning. Our work suggests oral assessment has a role in the age of AI.
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Peter Mellow
March 5, 2025 4:59 PM
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AI programs train on questions they’re later tested on. So how do we know if they’re getting smarter?
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Peter Mellow
February 23, 2025 6:10 PM
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Mark A. Bassett, Charles Sturt University; Kane Murdoch, Macquarie University
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Peter Mellow
from AI in Education #AIinED
November 27, 2024 4:02 PM
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The university as we know it is dead. COVID-19 nearly killed it, and AI has dealt the final blow.
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Peter Mellow
November 5, 2024 5:36 PM
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The Federal Court will hear an Australian-first case after five students allegedly used a major company to cheat on their work.
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Peter Mellow
September 29, 2024 5:46 PM
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Authentic assessment contrasts with ‘traditional’ forms of assessment in ways that appear to be significant and, largely, positive. However, authentic assessment is often invested wit
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Peter Mellow
August 22, 2024 6:51 PM
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Our two recent studies suggest the way students respond to test questions on computers may not be the same as on paper.
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Peter Mellow
August 16, 2024 9:17 PM
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Students accused of cheating at the University of Melbourne will be sent to a powerful committee for investigation, as AI fuels a growing wave of misconduct.
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Peter Mellow
August 12, 2024 7:04 PM
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At the moment, we use academic results to assign social worth. That has to change
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