For our 2022 Learning and Teaching Symposium, rather than a conference theme we are posing a question: Engagement – One problem but with many solutions? Engagement can be challenging for us all and at this year’s Learning and Teaching Symposium, we will be considering this question through a range of presentations exploring the different ways we engage with our students, with each other, with the community, and with big ideas. Radical ideas are encouraged! It is your opportunity to be another part of the solution.
Professor Phillip (Phill) Dawson is the Associate Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. Phill has degrees in education, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, and he leads CRADLE’s work on cheating, academic integrity and assessment security.
This work spans hacking and cheating in online exams, training academics to detect contract cheating, student use of study drugs, the effectiveness of legislation at stopping cheating, and the evaluation of new assessment security technologies. His two latest books are Defending Assessment Security in a Digital World: Preventing E-Cheating and Supporting Academic Integrity in Higher Education (Routledge, 2021) and the co-edited volume Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World (Springer, 2020). Phill’s work on cheating is part of his broader research into assessment, which includes work on assessment design and feedback. In his spare time, Phill performs improv comedy and produces the academia-themed comedy show The Peer Revue.
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