Click.Read.Submit.Repeat. For many students, this has become the dominant rhythm of university study. Log in to the LMS. Browse pages that seem more like relics from the late 90s than modern learning spaces. Scroll through text-heavy content. Download a PDF. Upload an assignment. Move on. A rhythm built for compliance, […]
Assessment & Feedback - Innovation & Future of Higher Education - Reflections & Provocations - Student Learning & Engagement
Seeing the Thinking: What Creative Arts Assessment Practices Can Offer Other Disciplines
Generative AI has forced higher education into a renewed conversation about assessment, which has been long overdue. Universities and educators are now asking familiar assessment questions with urgency: What exactly are we assessing? How do we recognise evidence of student thinking? And what does authentic learning look like when polished outputs can […]
Innovation & Future of Higher Education - Reflections & Provocations - Student Learning & Engagement
Creativity Belongs to Every Discipline: Why Access Matters
Creativity Is a Capability, Not a Discipline In higher education, we often speak about creativity as though it belongs to particular disciplines, media, design, and the creative arts. Creativity does not belong to a single faculty, it is a core capability every graduate should develop. If universities exist to prepare […]
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Closing the Gap Between Learning Outcomes and Student Learning in Higher Education
Learning outcomes remain central to our courses. They influence course proposals, underpin accreditation documents, guide course reviews, and enable curriculum mapping across units and assessments. Institutionally, they are vital. They ensure coherence, provide reassurance, and uphold accountability. They enable us to confidently articulate what a graduate of a specific course […]
Innovation & Future of Higher Education - Reflections & Provocations
The Cost of Creativity: Policy, Price and the Future of Media Degrees
This piece began with a LinkedIn post. An article from Future Campus was being shared that was largely positive. But one line, drawn from Andrew Norton’s, recent analysis of undergraduate demand, gave me pause. In the Future Campus piece, it noted; “On a discipline level, all non-STEM fields attracted fewer applications in 2025 […]