Charles Sturt EdX

Professor Phillip (Phill) Dawson

Professor Phillip (Phill) Dawson is the Associate Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. Phill has degrees in education, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, and he leads CRADLE’s work on cheating, academic integrity and assessment security. This work spans:

• hacking and cheating in online exams,
• training academics to detect contract cheating,
• student use of study drugs,
• the effectiveness of legislation at stopping cheating, and
• the evaluation of new assessment security technologies.

His two latest books are Defending Assessment Security in a Digital World: Preventing E-Cheating and Supporting Academic Integrity in Higher Education (Routledge, 2021) and the co-edited volume Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World (Springer, 2020). Phill’s work on cheating is part of his broader research into assessment, which includes work on assessment design and feedback. In his spare time Phill performs improv comedy and produces the academia-themed comedy show The Peer Revue.

Twitter: @phillipdawson
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philldawson/

CSEdX fosters collaboration and demonstrates the value we place on a student-centred culture at Charles Sturt. We invite you to submit your contribution on how we connect in this disrupted world aligned to the streams detailed below. We’re also pleased to invite students to present and attend the conference. If you’re a current student, we’d love to hear from you, tell us about your learning experiences – what’s working and what could we do differently?

Submissions are now closed

• Meeting student needs growing belonging and connectivity, harnessing the energies and ideas that emerge.
  Presentations in this stream may explore concepts of engagement, students as partners, learner centred planning, co-creation with students, workplace experiences, career readiness, learner agency. Other topics may be around diversity and support – addressing the diverse needs to students and challenging our understandings.
• Teaching paradigms: hi-flex, new environments, the unexpected; assessment; pedagogies for our world.
  Presentations in this stream may explore new ways of approaching teaching, of designing learning activities and resources, of utilising technologies to create exciting and innovative learning opportunities. Topics may include blended or hybrid learning designs, new pedagogies that frame teaching, or the implementation of evidence based approaches in the CS context.  Building stronger networks and learning communities
• Building stronger networks and learning communities.
  This stream will include presentations about connection and learning together – academics with academics, students with students, community connections, industry connecting. The stream is an opportunity to be curious about working and learning together well and share ways of making this happen.
• Showcases: optimal learning experiences.
  Are you curious about how your colleagues teach and work with students? Presentations in this stream will be highly practical – descriptions of what has been tried in subjects and classes. This is an opportunity to describe ways you have solved dilemmas of teaching or have explored new or different approaches to teaching. The presentation may involve a demonstration, a critical review of a teaching strategy and it may model a learning activity you have utilised. The audience will learn something that they can put into action the next day.
• Academic Identity: teacher, student, researcher, human: living well in a multi-faceted HE environment.
  The world of academia has dramatically changed recently and presentations in this stream will explore the complexities of academic life right now. The presentations may include discussion about the impact of reflection on practice, exploration of the nexus of research and teaching, case studies of individual development. Some presentations may focus on well-being, on collaborative team teaching, on working with across disciplines and skills.

• 2021 CSEdX Conference Program
• 2020 CSEdX Conference Program