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Winning the Assessment Game: Empowering Educators in the Intelligent Age
Date Thursday, Dec 4 Time – Room: Chess
This hands-on session introduces practical strategies for embedding generative AI across the teaching and learning lifecycle. Through collaborative exercises, participants will reframe traditional assignments, design AI-enhanced learning activities, and draft principles for curriculum and assessment renewal. The session provides adaptable tools and shared guidelines to support institution-wide integration of AI in education.
Anné Verhoef
Director of the NWU AI Hub and Professor in Philosophy, North-West University
Anné H. Verhoef is a professor in Philosophy and Director of the North-West University (NWU) AI Hub. He holds a PhD from the University of Stellenbosch and from the Free University in Amsterdam. His research interests are, amongst others, ethics, artificial intelligence and academic integrity, and the philosophy of happiness. He published various academic articles on academic integrity in Higher Education. He is the co-founder and former associate editor of the academic journal Transformation in Higher Education. He is also the co-founder of AICSA – the Artificial Intelligence Circle in South Africa for Higher Education.
Liandi Van den Berg
Professor, Director TELIT-SA Research Entity , North-West University
Prof Liandi van den Berg is a professor and director of the Technology Enhanced Learning and Innovative Training in South Africa (TELIT-SA) research entity in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the North-West University. Prof Liandi is a core member of the NWU institution’s Digital Business Strategy team, facilitating the digital transformation process within the university. She is actively involved in the institutional Artificial Intelligence Steering Committee, AI Hub, the institutional digital assessment task team and the NWU T&L Strategy task team to develop and review policies, procedures and guidelines as well as develop, implement and research AI and digital assessment practices. She was the leading developer of the novel training course for students and faculty on AI integration in teaching, learning and research and is currently researching various educational affordances of GenAI use for lecturers and students.