#2 Professor Andrew Turner and Martin Jenkins, Coventry University

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 this episode, our speakers tackle the shift from treating assessment as a high-pressure, punitive hurdle to celebrating it as a flexible, developmental tool that propels learning forward. As students universally utilise it for exam preparation and structuring thoughts, how can institutions embrace a balanced model of AI use?

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.