Professor Phillip Dawson: Assessment Design for a time of AI

About this episode

Professor Phillip Dawson discusses assessment design in the context of artificial intelligence during his keynote address at the Quality Insights Conference.

In this podcast, we share Professor Phillip Dawson's keynote address on Assessment Design for a time of AI, which he presented at our 2025 Quality Insights Conference last month. Phillip is co-director of Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University, Australia. Having initially studied AI and cyber security before his PhD in Higher Education, he’s now a leading expert on assessment validity in the digital age. Artificial intelligence is ca...

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Guest: Professor Phillip Dawson

Topics covered

• assessment design
• artificial intelligence
• higher education
• digital learning
• validity
• cyber security

Keywords

• assessment
• AI
• digital learning
• higher education
• validity
• cyber security

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Organizations: Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University

Places: Australia

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