4D - Mixed themes
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025 |
1:45 PM - 3:10 PM |
Meeting Room 3 - Level 2 |
Overview
Meeting Room 3 - Level 2
Speaker
Prof Alex Steel
Professor
UNSW
The Assessment Chord: A Diagnostic Framework for Balanced Assessment
Biography
Alex Steel is a Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice, teaching primarily criminal law. He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy and has a Commonwealth Government Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Alex has been Interim Pro Vice Chancellor Education twice (2019-20 and 2023-4), Director Teaching Strategy (2020-23), Director AI Strategy Education (2024-5), Law Associate Dean Education (2009-14), Law Associate Dean Academic (2014-6) and a long-term member of Academic Board.
He has led initiatives to develop and implement a university wide digital assessment platform, develop the university’s strategic responses to generative AI in education, and respond to the educational impacts of the COVID pandemic.
Alex's education related publications range across the pedagogy and regulation of legal education, curriculum design, assessment practices and student wellbeing. He is currently examining the impact of generative AI on legal education.
Assoc Prof Kelly Linden
2025 Acses Equity Fellow
Charles Sturt University
Helping part-time students to succeed in a full-time world
Biography
Associate Professor Kelly Linden is a 2025 ACSES Equity Fellow from Charles Sturt University. Over the last 9 years, Kelly has developed and led retention work across Charles Sturt which has resulted in a number of publications and awards. Her research interests are student engagement, success, retention and feedback with a particular focus on supporting equity students.
Assoc Prof Assoc. Sridharan
Australian Catholic University
Examining Key Predictors of Teamwork Success in Collaborative Group Work: Student Perceptions
Biography
Associate Professor Bhavani Sridharan is the Associate Dean, Learning & Teaching, and Accreditation in the Faculty of Law and Business, Australian Catholic University. Bhavani’s research interests are in assuring graduate capabilities, analytics, assessment, feedback, evaluative judgement, e-learning, technology-enhanced assessment, student engagement and retention, quality in higher education and principles of responsible management education. She has published her work in high ranked peer reviewed journals including Studies in Higher Education, Accounting and Finance, Higher Education, Accounting Education, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. Bhavani has been successful in gaining several research grants and research awards including the Massey University Women’s award, research grant from Academy of Business Research Fund (ABRF), RMIT PhD scholarship, the RMIT University and College of Business awards for Doctoral Research Excellence, the CRADLE fellowships, ACU Teaching Development Grants, ASCILITE research grant, ACU’s Citation Award, ACU Vice Chancellors award and PFHEA and other external research grants.
