#18 Julian Rawel,
University of Edinburgh

In this episode of Assessment in Focus, host Ishan Kolhatkar sits down with Dr. Alison Purvis, Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching, and Student Success at Sheffield Hallam University.

Bringing decades of higher education leadership and sector-level experience with Jisc and the OfS, Alison breaks down the critical boundaries between using AI for learning enhancement versus relying on it for high-stakes academic judgment.

In this special episode of Assessment in Focus, host Ishan Kolhatkar welcomes the largest panel of guests in the show’s history: the founders of Connecting Legal Education (CLE).

Founded in March 2020, the initial purpose of CLE was to provide an online platform for legal educators to share conference papers canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also provided a platform and space to share best practice in student education more broadly. Since then, CLE has grown into a fully formed community that grew from 20 participants to nearly 450 members across 12 countries.

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?