Podcast
Assessment in Focus
Real Stories of Digital Assessment Transformation
Listen to Assessment in Focus, a podcast by Inspera. Join us for real stories of digital assessment transformation from global education experts.
Podcast
Real Stories of Digital Assessment Transformation
Listen to Assessment in Focus, a podcast by Inspera. Join us for real stories of digital assessment transformation from global education experts.
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Hosted by Ishan Kolhatkar,
April 23, 2025 / Duration: Duration: 43:19
Professor Phillip Dawson, Deakin University
Joining Ishan on this episode is Professor Phillip Dawson, co-director of the Center for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (Cradle) at Deakin University in Australia. His research includes the topics of feedback literacy, artificial intelligence in assessment, and assessment design in the era of artificial intelligence.
Ishan and Phillip discuss feedback literacy, the skills required by academics and graduates now that AI content generation is ubiquitous, as well as reframing academic integrity. Does validity matter more than cheating?
Hosted by Ishan Kolhatkar,
April 9, 2025 / Duration: Duration: 46:36
Professor Andrew Turner and Martin Jenkins, Coventry University
Coventry University is headquartered in the Midlands, UK. They also have campuses in London and Scarborough in the northeast of the UK, and in Egypt, Morocco, and Poland, with hubs located in Singapore, Belgium, China, Rwanda. A truly global university.
This week, Professor Andrew Turner and Martin Jenkins from the University join Ishan Kolhatkar to discuss AI in assessment, the future and what they've learned in their own assessment practice.
Hosted by Ishan Kolhatkar,
March 26, 2025 / Duration: Duration: 55:38
Dr Linda Amrane-cooper and Michael Sawyer, University of London
University of London pivoted to digital assessment during the COVID lockdown and now processes ~100,000 online exams papers per year online. This week Ishan is joined by Dr Linda Amrane-cooper and Michael Sawyer from the University of London to discuss the future of assessment practices and the lessons they’ve learned from implementing digital assessment.
Global Client Evangelist, Inspera
Ishan Kolhatkar is the Global Client Evangelist at Inspera and an education technology leader. With over a decade years of experience in the intersection of technology and education, Ishan is committed to driving positive change and inspiring the adoption of modern assessment methodologies worldwide. Before joining Inspera, Ishan was a legal academic following a career as a Barrister. He was Deputy Dean of Learning and Teaching and Director of EdTech which led to him purchasing and implementing Inspera. He has a deep understanding of how pedagogy needs to be enabled by technology through experience before and while at Inspera. He was on the Department for Education T-Level panel for Law. Ishan is an internationally recognised industry expert in education, digital assessment, digital transformation, digital enablement and change management. As an author, he writes for national and international education publications such as Times Higher Education. He has been a speaker at numerous leading education conferences, including Assessment in Higher Education and Association for Learning Technology, THE Campus Live and THE Digital Universities in the UK, MENA, Asia and ANZ, and the EDUtech Asia and ANZ. Away from work, he's a keen amateur chef, posting pictures of his food online.
