Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning

About CRADLE

Led by Alfred Deakin Professor David Boud – currently the world’s leading higher education researcher – and Professor Phillip Dawson, CRADLE's main role is to research assessment practices in the changing settings of education, which are increasingly embracing digital learning.

Register for the 2022 CRADLE International Symposium

This year's topic is 'Challenging Cheating' which intentionally can be interpreted as having many meanings from the challenges that cheating poses to education, to challenging the very idea of cheating, and beyond – be prepared for contradictory perspectives to be unpacked. We are proud to host two exciting interactive public events as pivotal highlights of the symposium program – a keynote presentation and panel session.

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Keynote presentation

Join us on Wednesday 12 October, 10am (AEDT) with Dr Sarah Eaton, who will problematicise the complex issues and challenges of academic ethics, integrity and ‘wicked problems’ such as contract cheating in her presentation 'Academic Integrity as a Transdisciplinary Field of Research, Policy, and Practice'.

Interactive panel session

We also invite you to take part in our second event on Tuesday 18 October, 3pm (AEDT) – a panel session with Professor Bruce Macfarlance (The Education University of Hong Kong), Professor Jeannie Paterson (University of Melbourne), Dr Vicky Nagy (University of Tasmania) and CRADLE's Professor Phill Dawson.

Informed by the closed part of the symposium, this session will attempt to unpack suppositions and shifting positions relating to cheating in higher education. We plan to collaborate to pick apart the taken-for-granted assumptions that surround cheating, and chart a new way forward.