Inclusive Assessment and Feedback: Designing Multiple Options with GenAI

Inclusive Assessment and Feedback: Designing Multiple Options with GenAI

Paula Bibiana García Cardona

Associate Professor, Education

Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

&

Kaitlin Lucas

Academic Technologist

Central European University, Austria

Join Paula Bibiana García Cardona and Kaitlin Lucas for an interactive webinar exploring the Universal Design for Learning Guideline, Expression and Communication (5). Recent debates about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in higher education have shed light on the need to reimagine assessment as a process rather than merely a product. Traditional assessment often requires educators to make judgements about students’ inherent abilities and characteristics. In contrast, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) asks us to focus on how learners acquire, process and apply knowledge. UDL therefore offers a framework for navigating the new AI-aware assessment landscape, particularly in sustaining students' effort and persistence throughout the learning process. In this webinar, we will demonstrate and discuss how GenAI tools can be used to scaffold assessment for both the learner and educator. We will take a twofold approach, considering (1) how educators can design assessments to be more inclusive in parallel with concerns about academic integrity, and (2) how GenAI tools might be integrated throughout a communicative and supportive assessment process with accessibility in mind.

Presenter Bios:

Paula Bibiana García Cardona, Associate Professor, Education, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Professor García has a degree in Special Education. She obtained her doctorate in and her master's degree in Neuroscience and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her teaching and research interests include neurocognitive processes of learning, Universal Design for Learning, and the effects of teacher and student mindsets on effective learning. She works in the School of Education at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

Kaitlin Lucas, Academic Technologist, Central European University, Austria. Kaitlin Lucas (she/her) is an Academic Technologist at Central European University. She holds an MSEd: Information Technology from Western Oregon University, where she developed an interest in using collaborative technologies for critical and reflective thinking. At the CEU’s Yehuda Elkana Center, her projects include co-designing online and blended courses with faculty and students, supporting virtual exchanges and game-based learning projects, and raising awareness for digital accessibility.

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This webinar is recommended for faculty, instructional designers, librarians, tutors, academic advisors, and other personnel.

The 9-in-9 Overtime: 3.0 UDL Insights Webinar Series is sponsored by the Goodwin University Institute for Learning Innovation and the Goodwin University Center for Teaching Excellence.