Why You Can’t Miss This Course!

Assessment should do more than measure learning, it should enhance learning. Yet across the education sector, there is growing concern that students may become over-reliant on generative AI tools, using them in ways that can undermine critical thinking, metacognitive development, and authentic engagement with learning.

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The challenge of AI in assessment is not simply a technology problem, it's often an assessment design problem. When assessment is treated as a final product, disconnected from teaching and completed in isolation, students naturally look for tools that help them generate that product. Traditional assessment practices frequently position assessment as something that happens after learning, rather than as part of learning. As a result, students can come to see success as producing an outcome rather than developing understanding.

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This course explores how to redesign assessment so that it becomes an integral part of instruction and learning. By bringing assessment into the classroom, creating opportunities for dialogue, feedback, and reflection, and focusing on the learning process as well as the outcome, educators can reduce over-reliance on AI while helping students become more capable, reflective, and independent learners.

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Importantly, this course does not advocate excluding AI from learning. Instead, it explores how AI can be used productively throughout the learning journey, as a tool for questioning, practice, feedback, idea generation, and reflection, while ensuring that students remain active participants in their own learning. The goal is not to replace learning with AI, but to help students use AI in ways that support deeper understanding, stronger metacognitive skills, and greater learner autonomy.

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Through a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) lens, you'll learn how to create assessments that support expert learning, promote academic integrity, and encourage authentic engagement in an AI-rich educational landscape.

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What You'll Learn

🔹 Understand the purpose of assessment and how it develops expert learners

🔹 Explore the impact of generative AI on assessment and student learning

🔹 Design assessments that encourage authentic engagement and reduce over-reliance on AI tools

🔹 Apply UDL principles to create accessible, flexible, and equitable assessment experiences

🔹 Integrate assessment seamlessly into teaching to support reflection, self-regulation, and metacognition

🔹 Use assessment design strategies that minimise opportunities for academic misconduct while supporting learning

🔹 Learn how to incorporate AI into learning activities in ways that enhance rather than replace student thinking

🔹 Gain practical approaches for helping students develop responsible and effective AI literacy

🔹 Get a FREE practical assessment toolkit (worth £40) packed with templates, checklists, prompts, and resources

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Future-Proof Your Assessment Practice

As AI continues to reshape higher and further education, assessment design has never been more important. If you're looking to create assessments that support genuine learning, foster student independence, and help learners engage with AI thoughtfully rather than depend on it, this course is for you.

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Join us to discover how assessment can become a powerful driver of learning, inclusion, and student success in the age of AI.