Program

9.30-10.00am   Registration & morning tea  (Foyer, Ground level, Arts West Building)
  Plenary sessions  (Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre)
10.00-10.05am Welcome and opening remarks  
10.05-10.55am
Keynote address
Beyond cognitive offloading: Student engagement with AI as a complex phenomenon

A/Prof Tim Fawns, Monash Education Academy, Monash University
10.55-11.00am
Comfort break
11.00am-12.00pm
Panel discussions and Q&A
Cognitive Offloading or Effective Practice? Exploring the Future of Learning with GenAI
Laura Chambers, Board Director, Mozilla Corporation
Dr Solange Glasser, Music Psychology, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne
Jim Hsiao, School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne
Moderator: Dr Shannon Rios, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne
12.00-1.00pm Networking lunch  (Foyer, Ground level, Arts West Building)
  Concurrent sessions
 

Learner Agency, Cognitive Engagement and GenAI Practice

Moderator: Dr Sarah Yang Spencer

Forum Theatre (Room 153)

Authenticating Learning in AI-Enriched Assessment

Moderator: Dr Josh Burridge

Lectorial Room (Room 156)

Designing for Human Thinking in the Age of GenAI

Moderator: Dr Shannon Rios

Flexible Learning Space (Room 256)
1.00-1.40pm

Protecting autonomy and competence: Learner identity and the struggle between cognitive offloading and effective practice with GenAI
Dr Vi Truong and Dr Winn Wing-Yiu Chow, University of Melbourne

AI Enhanced my critical thinking Investigating the paradox of student perceptions and cognitive offloading in GenAI use
Dr Winn Wing-Yiu Chow and Dr Stella Peng, University of Melbourne

Thinking to learn in GenAI contexts: Preserving learning through assessment design
A/Prof Anne-Marie Chase & Dr Kelly Galvin, Swinburne University of Technology

Why people matter: Beneficial vs detrimental cognitive offloading and how educators can encourage good academic practice
Stephen Campitelli, University of Melbourne

From offloading to ownership: Redesigning assessment to make thinking unavoidable in a GenAI environment
Scott Tetley, University of Melbourne

Cognitive Offloading–Informed Assessment Design (COIAD): A framework for assured learning in a GenAI context
Dr Peter Matheis and Ms Aneta Delevska, University of Melbourne

1.40-1.50pm Break Break Break
1.50-2.30pm  

What does it mean to engage GenAI constructively and interactively? ICAP knowledge-change processes revisited
Dr Ha Nguyen, University of Melbourne

Flying in a half-built plane: Exploring biomedical science student perception and experience with GenAI
Jennifer Zhu, University of Melbourne

Auditing epistemic agency: Mitigating cognitive offloading through accountable AI use in assessments
Dr Stella Peng and Dr Winn Wing-Yiu Chow, University of Melbourne

Trust, feedback engagement and cognitive offloading in an AI-enriched assessment environment: When higher marks do not mean better learning
Dr Wasana Karunarathne and Ashley Hanson, University of Melbourne

Designing extended reality learning scenarios with generative artificial intelligence without losing the learning
A/Prof James Birt, Bond University and A/Prof Thomas Cochrane, University of Melbourne

From observation to co-creation: Rethinking design creativity pedagogy in the age of GenAI
Dr Haseen Akhtar, Indian Institute of Technology

Presentation abstracts