Rachel Forsyth, Senior Educational Developer at Lund University. Rachel is the author of Confident Assessment in Higher Education (Sage, 2022) and co-author of the forthcoming GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning (Bloomsbury, 2025).

It is trite but true to say that educational institutions change slowly, despite the collective expertise of their staff in innovation. To some extent, most universities are proud of their educational history and traditions which have worked well for centuries, and although educational technology researchers have long predicted the transformation of university teaching due to the availability of new tools but educational structures and activities are still recognisably similar to those undertaken earlier in the twentieth century, if not from longer ago. In this context, it may not be controversial to suggest that Generative AI (GenAI) tools in their current form do not present any new challenges to education. However, they highlight issues which have been known for some time and which seem to have impacted on the quality of teacher and student experiences: more diverse students, large class sizes, availability of technological tools, and a lack of national and organisational focus on the purposes of education. In this seminar, Rachel will talk about the ways in which we might reframe these issues into a way of thinking about teaching and assessment through which we can make informed decisions about the use of Generative AI in individual subjects. The seminar will consider the role of individual teachers and institutional structures in developing inclusive learning communities, effective assessment design, and trust-building.