#15 Matt Cornock,
University of Leeds

Host Ishan Kolhatkar sits down with Professor Chie Adachi, Dean for Digital Education and Interim Academic Director for the Centre of Excellence in AI in Education at Queen Mary University of London.

For centuries, Western higher education has treated the written essay as the ultimate hallowed turf for demonstrating knowledge. But in the era of GenAI where text generation is common, is our obsession with writing actually holding students back from developing true, human-centered capabilities?

In the fourteenth episode of the Assessment in Focus podcast, host Ishan Kolhatkar sits down with Professor Ian Pickup, Pro Vice Chancellor of Students at The Open University, for an open and honest conversation on the future of learning, grading, and academic integrity in the age of GenAI.

In the third episode of Season 2 of the Assessment in Focus podcast, host Ishan Kolhakkar sits down with Dr. Patricia Broadfoot, Professor Emeritus of the Sociology of Education at the University of Bristol, to dissect the profound evolution, systemic barriers, and uncertain future of educational assessment.