We inadvertently created a culture where admitting AI use feels risky

Neat 6-minute presentation by Roger Kan of HKU SPACE

When GenAI Meets Teacher Feedback Dilemmas Shijun (Cindy) Chen and David Carless, Faculty of Education, University of Hong KongWe are living in a complex and fast-changing world, shaped by technology, policies, and global developments. We have...

🚀Excited to share our new blog by Cindy Chen & Professor David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social : When GenAI Meets Teacher Feedback Dilemmas. 🎓✨ Discover how educators are redefining feedback with GenAI! #GenAI #Feedback #HigherEd

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"The single most important structural feature is whether a future accountability moment exists at which students will need to demonstrate understanding."

Educational development as both scholarship and impact on practice: useful contribution by Claire Gordon & Sam Smidt

Yes, feedback seeking as an aspect of learner feedback literacy

Well-argued analysis of both the power of AI, and what humans can offer in terms of augmented cognition

'I’m beginning to develop a firm conviction that teachers in higher education need to model and demonstrate to students how they themselves as academic professionals generate and use feedback information of different kinds.'
Couldn't agree more!

Feedback Seeking for Academics and Students David Carless, University of Hong KongLast week, I did an online talk for a group of colleagues at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University about one my favorite topics: feedback seeking. I drew links betw...

Feedback seeking is a high leverage strategy & worth modelling for learners: short blog post
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A perspective on the current state-of-the-art of feedback literacy research: Mark Teng, editor of IJTS asked me to introduce feedback literacy to his readers, & its open access

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Assessment for inclusion: a holistic framework to support stakeholders’ literacy and implementation across contexts Higher education is experiencing a significant drive towards more inclusive learning to support student success. Assessment, however, can often be a barrier to achieving that success. The literatur...

Delighted to share our latest article on the @ucddublin.bsky.social Assessment for Inclusion Framework published in @teachinginhe.bsky.social with my colleagues @geraldineoneill.bsky.social & @sheenahyland.bsky.social (featuring artwork from @visualthinkery.bsky.social!)

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How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research Cambridge Core - Education policy, strategy and reform - How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research

Pleased to share the newest Cambridge Element in the series I edit — How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research by J. Roe.
A clear, critical, and timely guide for anyone exploring how GenAI is reshaping educational research.
FREE ACCESS for two weeks:
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An interesting take on the wicked problem of GenAI-Assessment, I wonder what others think ...

“Reframing Teacher Wellbeing: Policy, Leadership, and Localized Insight through Asia as Method”

Wellbeing isn't just personal, it’s shaped by policy, leadership, and culture. My new paper offers a framework grounded in Hong Kong’s context and Asia as Method.

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Academic feedback literacy: what HE professionals need to generate and make the most of feedback opportunities

‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity We live in a time of complexity, uncertainty, and change that can exacerbate inequities. Student–faculty pedagogical partnership that embraces ‘unknowingness’ can prepare student partners both to n...

‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity
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Yeah, feedback literacy to inform academic peer review 😀

Towards an idealized model of feedback uptake: longitudinal development of feedback literacy from a social constructivist perspective One of the potentials and challenges for the implementation of effective feedback processes lies in promoting and enacting purposeful student uptake of teacher written feedback. The theoretical fra...

A social constructivist perspective on the development of student feedback literacy over a 4-year period. Free eprints
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What matters for productive feedback? Disciplinary practices and their relational dynamics Most research on feedback has paid limited attention to the role of disciplines and their relational dynamics. This article addresses this limitation by offering a conceptualisation of feedback as ...

Esterhazy wrote about feedback encounters
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Feedback literacy-as-event: relationality, space and temporality in feedback encounters Research on student and teacher feedback literacies is currently a flourishing sub-field of higher education, as scholars seek to address the durable and dissatisfying dilemmas that feedback proces...

It was Gravett & Carless, Feedback literacy as event
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How should higher education respond to calls to be relevant? - HEPI Higher education’s true value lies not in skills or facts, but in transformative access to structured bodies of knowledge.

New @hepi-news.bsky.social blog on how higher education should respond to calls to be relevant: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/16/h...

Work towards three things from a presentation that audience members can recall one week later

Appraising Feedback Stance in Higher Education: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Student and Academic Perceptions, Perspectives and Preferences - Corpus Pragmatics Feedback is a complex dialogic, sociomaterial practice that is shaped by digital affordances, institutional norms and various contextual factors. Even though it is widely recognised as crucial to acad...

Appraising Feedback Stance in Higher Education: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Student and Academic Perceptions, Perspectives and Preferences link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41701-025-00196-3

Assessment purposes and theoretical foundations in university mathematics assessment practices: a comprehensive scoping review This scoping review addresses the limited scopes of current research on classroom assessment in university mathematics education (UME). We examine 67 empirical studies (2012–2024) from two crucial ...

Huge Congrats to Tammy for her paper at AEHE! Struggling with effective math assessments? Her research highlights key gaps—like balancing culture, tech, and student reflection. Let’s rethink assessment together! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our research has been published in AEHE!📚It explores how different types of motivation influence student perceptions and behaviours in feedback seeking processes. Huge thanks for the guidance and support from @juusonieminen.bsky.social and Prof Gaowei Chen
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#Studytalk and Student Influencers: The Role of Social Media in Student Support Rille Raaper, Durham University Contemporary student experiences of higher education are mediated by technology where intersections between in-person and digital experiences continue to evolve in new ...

Discover how student influencers are reshaping peer support in #HigherEducation through #studytalk! Our latest blog post by @rilleraaper.bsky.social discusses the role of student influencers in marketised higher education. Check it out now! 📚 #StudentInfluencers

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Pedagogical framework for hybrid intelligent feedback Generative AI (GenAI) has gained attention as a new feedback source in education because it can generate human-like text. However, its use in feedback lacks a strong pedagogical framework, which is...

Balance GenAI's speed & power with human judgement & empathy: Hybrid intelligent feedback www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My new baby. I do hope you find it engaging and of value…

Student influencers fill gaps in university support services Student influencers, an emerging group of students on social media, are increasingly exploiting the gaps in higher education systems and are offering ...

'Student influencers fill gaps in university support services' - A thought piece published with @uniworldnews.bsky.social Thanks #SRHE conference for opportunity to reflect on these themes.
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Creative Assessment Design in the Time of GenAI Zheng Wenxin and David CarlessI am Zheng Wenxin, a second-year HKU student participating in the Eureka Undergraduate Research Programme, conducting a research project with Professor David Carless. Our...

Debate and role-play as interactive oral assessment: some tentative thoughts
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