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Digital Archipelagos: A personal reflection on DHA2025 and its evolution in Australasia
Genesis, definitions, and memory Digital humanities remains a contested term, as all definitions must be! The field has been variously described as the intersection of computing and humanities disciplines, a methodological commons, and a site of computational engagement with cultural materials. Such contestation is healthy, signalling vitality, yet it also generates considerable waffle. I am…
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Source to Sea: tracking the Snowy River from Kosciuszko to Marlo
Australia’s Snowy River springs from the alpine snowmelt on Mt Kosciuszko, carving a 352-kilometre route through gorges, plains and forests before meeting Bass Strait at Marlo, Victoria. Our multi-day journey followed this legendary waterway, tracing its heartbeat. From Gippsland dairy flats to Kosciuszko’s rocky headwaters, every bend revealed a version of the Snowy, wild and…
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The Future of the Essay in the Age of AI: A Practical Guide
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has fundamentally disrupted one of higher education’s most enduring pedagogical tools: the essay. For centuries, the essay has served as both a means of learning and a method of assessment, asking students to demonstrate research skills, critical thinking, argument construction, and disciplinary knowledge through extended written work. The arrival of tools…
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Applying the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS): A Step-by-Step Guide for auditing and updating assessment tasks
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has created both opportunities and challenges for assessment design and academic integrity. The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS), developed by Perkins, Furze, Roe, and MacVaugh, provides a practical framework to guide educators in making purposeful, evidence-based decisions about appropriate AI use in assessments. Rather than treating AI as a threat to be…
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Bridging the Two-Lane approach and the AI Assessment Scale: A comprehensive framework for higher education
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed how we approach assessment in higher education. While various frameworks have been proposed to address these challenges, two complementary approaches—the two-lane approach and the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS)—offer a potent combination when used together. This blog post examines how these frameworks can work in synergy to…
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Three use-cases of Cogniti’s educator-controlled AI agents
Cogniti, developed at the University of Sydney and piloted at several other universities, is an educator-controlled AI agent platform that is uniquely positioned to address discipline-specific AI challenges by offering tailored guidance, resources, and mentorship. This blog post explores three speculative applications of Cogniti in the humanities and social sciences, with a particular focus on…
