BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Unimelb add to calendar// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5574112@unimelb.edu.au DTSTAMP:20260715T140000 DTSTART:20260715T140000 DTEND:20260715T153000 SUMMARY:CRADLE Seminar: Educator Uncertainty in Fully Online Programs DESCRIPTION:Hosted by: Deakin's Centre for Research in Assessment & Digital Learning (CRADLE) Date: Wednesday 15 July 2026Time: from 2:00pm - 3:30pm (Melbourne)Where: OnlineFrom the invitation:In this seminar, Curtin University’s Professor Mollie Dollinger unpacks what educator uncertainty means for fully online programs in an age of generative AI and asks, ‘Are you afraid of the doubt?’...The real provocation for educators is not whether we can eliminate doubt from our teaching, but whether we are willing to confront it, to speak it, and to recognise where it has a place.  In no area is this more pertinent than in fully online programs, where the doubt runs sharpest. Yet these programs are also among the sector's strongest mechanisms for equity, making tertiary education accessible to students who would otherwise have no route to it. Now is the time to get these programs right; to design them with a balance of the need for certainty and assurances, while recognising that doubt will, and always has, played a role. In this talk, then, I want to bring doubt into the light, to ask what it would mean to design in honest recognition of it. So, they ask you, are you afraid of the doubt?Further information and registration via the event page. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Hosted by: Deakin's Centre for Research in Assessment & Digital Learning (CRADLE)
Date: Wednesday 15 July 2026
Time: from 2:00pm - 3:30pm (Melbourne)
Where: Online

From the invitation:

In this seminar, Curtin University’s Professor Mollie Dollinger unpacks what educator uncertainty means for fully online programs in an age of generative AI and asks, ‘Are you afraid of the doubt?’
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The real provocation for educators is not whether we can eliminate doubt from our teaching, but whether we are willing to confront it, to speak it, and to recognise where it has a place.  In no area is this more pertinent than in fully online programs, where the doubt runs sharpest. Yet these programs are also among the sector's strongest mechanisms for equity, making tertiary education accessible to students who would otherwise have no route to it. Now is the time to get these programs right; to design them with a balance of the need for certainty and assurances, while recognising that doubt will, and always has, played a role. In this talk, then, I want to bring doubt into the light, to ask what it would mean to design in honest recognition of it.

So, they ask you, are you afraid of the doubt?

Further information and registration via the event page.

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