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Margaret Bearman

Margaret Bearman

Professor at Deakin University's Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), researching assessment, feedback, and AI in higher and health professions education; also an Australian fiction novelist.

Sep 16, 2026

Curing the Curriculum

Curing the Curriculum

Learning is not an assembly line - AI, bias and the mess of learning: Margaret Bearman #CTC16

Sep 16 · 1h 2m

speaker_1HOST
8:36
What matters practically or what do you think AI is?
Margaret Bearman
Margaret BearmanGUEST
8:41
Well, I mean, I think you're referring to a piece of work we did where we defined AI.
Margaret Bearman
Margaret BearmanGUEST
8:46
And the point is there is that it is multiple things.
Margaret Bearman
Margaret BearmanGUEST
8:51
And I think you can think of AI in three ways.
Margaret Bearman
Margaret BearmanGUEST
8:53
And when you interact with or talk with other people about AI, it's useful to think about in which way you're talking.
Margaret Bearman
Margaret BearmanGUEST
9:00
The first way to think about or to define AI is through the technology.
Margaret Bearman
Margaret BearmanGUEST
9:04
That would sort of straightforward, a large language model, predictive algorithm.

49 MINS LATER

speaker_1HOST
57:52
So what's the reason to ask instead? What should we get rid of? What should we do different?

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