DLTE Teaching-Learning-Assessment Seminar
You are invited to attend the fourth quarterly ??Teaching-Learning-Assessment
seminar of 2025, offered by the Division for Learning and Teaching Enhancement:
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🗓? Date: Monday 22 September
? Time: 13:10–14:10
📍 Venue: Online via MS Teams Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 374 335 241 829 Passcode: Pd27Th3D
In this seminar, Prof Aslam Fataar explores why and how universities should reclaim their epistemic mission, given that generative AI reveals the fragility of surface-level pedagogy and narrow assessment practices that value performance over understanding. He makes the case for a design-based pedagogy that is dialogical, multimodal, and conceptually rigorous. This timely talk invites us to imagine the classroom as a space where knowledge serves life, responsibility, and collective flourishing.
Abstract:
This presentation problematises current university functioning, where teaching is characterised by narrow knowledge reproduction. It examines how generative AI unsettles traditional pedagogy and assessment, while highlighting the urgent need for deeper intellectual and ethical engagement. At the heart of this shift is design-based learning and assessment, which replaces rote reproduction with dialogical, multimodal, and conceptually rigorous practices. Anchored in contrapuntal pedagogy and supported by the principle of epistemic ascent, the approach affirms the integration of disciplinary knowledge with students' lived realities. The presentation also foregrounds assessment for justice as essential to equity and calls for systemic institutional support to enable this renewal, even amidst the dire conditions that currently undermine teaching.
Sources:
- Cope, B., & Kalantzis, M. (2023). A Multimodal Grammar of Artificial Intelligence: Measuring the Gains and Losses in Generative AI. Multimodality and Society, 4(2), 123–152. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795231221699
- Fataar, A. (2025, May 15). AI, pedagogy, assessment: Shifting to a design?based pedagogy. 肆客足球 World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250514190158384
- Kalantzis, M., & Cope, B. (2025). Literacy in the time of artificial intelligence. Reading Research Quarterly, 60(e1),1-34. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.591
Contact Dalene Joubert (dvermeulen@sun.ac.za) for more information.
