From polyjargon to programs: Systems thinking in assessment
Diana Saragi Turnip and Priya Khanna Pathak, University of New South Wales
📢My #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
@unsw.edu.au Diana Turnip➕ @priyakhanna.bsky.social
👇From polyjargon 2 programs: Systems thinking in assessment
🤔Long-term thinking 4 short-sighted world
🏅Assessment design as team sport
💥Programmatic➕program-level
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13.11.2025 03:41 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
From equity ambitions to action: Becoming an equity-capable careers service
Lauren Hansen, David Eckstein, Danni Hamilton, and Peter Oslewski, Deakin University
📢My #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
@deakinuniversity.bsky.social Hansen, Eckstein, Hamilton➕ Oslewski
👇From equity ambitions @ action: Becoming an equity-capable careers service
4️⃣Recs to shift practice
👏Universal design
👏From #WhatToDo to #HowToDoIt open.substack.com/pub/neededno...
25.09.2025 00:50 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
TEQSA just published 'Enacting assessment reform in a time of artificial intelligence'
We describe three pathways to assessment reform:
- taking a program-wide approach
- assuring learning in every unit/subject
- implementing a combination of these approaches
www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resou...
24.09.2025 06:40 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Let’s stop making better candles
Thomas Roche, Erica Wilson and Elizabeth Goode, Southern Cross University
📢In my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
#SouthernCrossUni Roche➕Wilson➕Goode
👏Stop making better candles
Whole-of-uni transformation 4 #StudentSuccess
SCU immersive 6wk block model: focused, active
✅Big impact
🔅Brighter #HE💡
🕯️Impressive analogy game🐝
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17.09.2025 23:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The centrality of academic judgement in assessment practice
Kevin Ashford-Rowe, Queensland University of Technology
📢In my #NeededNowLT blog w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
#QUT Kevin Ashford-Rowe
👇The centrality of academic judgement in assessment practice
✅Centrality of academic judgement
✅Don't panic
✅Build capability in assessment literacy
✅Generate a mature GenAI discourse
👏
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03.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Is Australia's AI skills agenda missing the point?
Canberra is abuzz with the future of work. The increased realisation of the potential impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on the economy has kicked off a flurry of activity, from highlig...
We're in a national race to build an #AI-ready workforce, but are we running in the wrong direction? 🤔
We need a national #learning agenda. A coordinated approach to addressing the numerous questions AI has raised about thinking and learning is now essential. www.linkedin.com/pulse/austra...
28.08.2025 06:48 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The relationship revolution: Nurturing learning through advising
Dr Cat Picton, University of the Sunshine Coast Dr Catherine Mann, University of Melbourne
📢In my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
#USC Cat Picton➕ unilibrary.bsky.social Catherine Mann
👇The relationship revolution:Nurturing learning thru advising
✅Lots of fab EGs
✅"Nurturing rich & transformative places of learning"
👍
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28.08.2025 01:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Are you free atm? I'm so upset
Debates about evidence in education should be about the children in our classrooms. When we allow ad hominem attacks we close off inquiry.
On #EducationalPsychology: “A vocal minority have linked our work with eugenics, Nazism, hyper-capitalism, totalitarianism and more. We are ‘boosters’ with agendas who want to make children suffer via robotic drill and kill. Nothing could be further from the truth.” blog.aare.edu.au/are-you-free...
25.08.2025 02:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Assessment integrity in the age of AI: Where to from here?
Miriam Reynoldson, RMIT
📢In my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
#RMIT @miriamreynoldson.bsky.social
👏Assessment integrity in the age of AI: Where to from here?
-What's not the answer?
-What are the problems?
-What solutions?
👍Thoughtful, generously curated➕3 x bonus blogs!
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20.08.2025 23:53 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Putting part-time students on the map
Kelly Linden and Sarah Teakel, Charles Sturt University
📢In my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
@csu.edu.au Kelly Linden➕Sarah Teakel @acsesedu.bsky.social
👏Putting part-time students on the map👏
-Systems assume full-time
-Logistical, structural & cultural barriers
🤔Redraw support
🤔Simple policy changes
👍
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14.08.2025 00:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Implementing the Accord’s recommendations to achieve Growth through Equity
Dr Nadine Zacharias, Managing Director, Equity by Design
📢In my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
👇Implementing Accord recommendations to achieve Growth thru Equity
#NadineZacharias talking #EquityMatters re Accord big vision
😀Excitement
😟Challenges
💥Impact
🧑💼Priorities (if VC for1️⃣day)
@acsesedu.bsky.social
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07.08.2025 00:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Carrots and sticks: Levers for positive change in universities
Darlene McLennan and Ebe Ganon, University of Tasmania
📢Now in my #NeededNowLT w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
@utas.edu.au @darlenemclennan.bsky.social➕#EbeGanon
👇Carrots & sticks: Levers 4 positive #HigherEd change🥕
NOW4️⃣x #DisabilitySupportFund @🤑$53,905,928m/yr
🤔How 2 ensure lasting transformation❓
👏More than tick box
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11.07.2025 01:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It was interesting to see how much came through within a couple of minutes of chatting with each one.
08.07.2025 07:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beyond Access: Why Australia's Equity Challenge Requires Practical Teaching Solutions
Samantha Clarke, Jessica Frawley and Eszter Kalman, The University of Sydney
📢Now in my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
👇Beyond Access: Why Australia's #Equity Challenge Requires Practical Teaching Solutions👏
#GreenGuide
👍Fab resource @sydney.edu.au
✅Practical equity design 4 educators
➕#Cogniti agent @dannydotliu.bsky.social
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25.06.2025 01:06 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Why AI Literacy Will Go the Way of the Floppy Disk
How the push for AI-specific education misses the forest for the trees I've been watching the 'AI literacy' discussion with the same mixture of bemusement and concern I'd feel watching someone frantic...
#AI literacy is not the answer.
We're prioritising teaching students to use tools that won't exist in 5 years at the cost of developing the human skills that have mattered for centuries.
Wrong problem, wrong solution.
#Education #AILiteracy #CriticalThinking #Teaching #FutureOfWork #EdTech
11.06.2025 12:19 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
We Need to Do the Parallel Work: Rethinking Learning Outcomes in the Age of AI
Prue Laidlaw, Charles Sturt University
NOW in my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
#CharlesSturtUniversity #PrueLaidley
👏We Need to Do the Parallel Work: Rethinking #LearningOutcomes in the Age of AI
Importance of redesigning #HigherEducation #LOs ➕assessment in the age of #GenAI
👍Fab links
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29.05.2025 00:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I’m glad you found our Easter egg Jo. Seemed like an appropriate time of year for it.
24.04.2025 02:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every #assessment task is now a group assignment #Learning #Teaching #Education #HigherEd #EdTech #EdChat #AI www.linkedin.com/pulse/every-...
10.04.2025 00:00 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Beatles. Showing how AI and education can mix responsibly and ethically
Edward Palmer, Director, Digital Learning and Society Hub, School of Education, University of Adelaide
📢In my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
#UniAdelaide Palmer
The Beatles & #AI
🤔How does an AI Beatles doco➕AI Grammy-award winning Beatles song impact #HigherEd AI❓
->Appropriate➕transparent use
->Understand risks
->Reward good, creative use
->Iterate
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03.04.2025 02:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🙋♂️🙏
19.03.2025 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
hahahaha didn’t the cyclone hit Melbourne? I mean it’s about the same distance from Brisbane as the far north is. What’s a rounding error between friends?
14.03.2025 08:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Congrats Colin! That’s a significant milestone. All the best for the examination process.
28.02.2025 00:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎈
28.02.2025 00:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ten persistent academic integrity myths
Mark A. Bassett, Charles Sturt University; Kane Murdoch, Macquarie University
⏰In my #NeededNowLT series @jasonmlodge.bsky.social 🔟Persistent #AcademicIntegrity myths
@ccguerilla.bsky.social➕Mark Bassett🙏
Very clear succinct advice re flaws➕risks
🚫Lock down every assessment
☑️Prioritise assessments that genuinely measure meaningful learning
👍
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27.02.2025 02:34 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
“That's outside of my pay grade” – Is the tertiary sector ready to support student (and staff) mental health needs?
Anna Dabrowski, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
⏰In my #NeededNowLT series @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
#ACER Dabrowski
That's outside my pay grade:Supporting student➕staff #MentalHealth
👏Staff #MentalWellbeing integral to student wellbeing👏
😔Big need 4 better resources➕guidelines
@nteunion.bsky.social @orygen.org.au
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19.02.2025 23:50 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
With two drop-offs and pick-ups some distance from each other every day? It’s already taking nearly 3 hours a day! I’ll stick with my car for the time being.
16.02.2025 23:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What to do about artificial intelligence now: Examining the real impact on learning
Professor Jason Lodge, The University of Queensland
🚨 Now in my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
🤔 #UQ Jason asks: What to do about #ArtificialIntelligence now:Examining the real impact on learning
▶️Proceed w caution-Learn fast act slow
▶️To understand #AI impact on learning, move beyond opinions
needednowlt.substack.com/p/what-to-do...
12.02.2025 23:13 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Paving New Paths: Harmonising Equity Data Across Institutions
Associate Professor Gemma Cadby, ACSES, Curtin University
🚨Now in my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
@acsesedu.bsky.social Cadby
👏Must harmonise #Equity data collection 2 allocate #NeedsBased funding
BUT
▶️Providers use own granular 'desire response fields'
▶️Inconsistent
▶️Inaccurate needs assessment
🤔
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06.02.2025 00:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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