Rethinking Inclusive Assessment in Higher Education; Assessment as Learning in the Age of AI
Enrolment opens: 3 March 2026
online | asynchronous | Self-paced | 8 ECTS
INGENIUM launches a new faculty development course supporting academic staff in redesigning assessment for inclusive, ethical, and AI-informed higher education.
“Rethinking Inclusive Assessment in Higher Education: Assessment as Learning in the Age of AI” equips participants to critically examine current assessment practices and redesign them using inclusive pedagogies, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and responsible integration of Generative AI. The course is developed within the Educational Lab project “Rethinking Assessment and Feedback for Inclusive Learning amid Contemporary Challenges”,
led by the University of Crete in collaboration with:
Munster Technological University (MTU),
Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași (TUIASI),
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK),
University of Rouen Normandy (URN),
University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara (UdA),
Medical University – Sofia (MUS).
Who Should Apply?
This course is designed for any INGENIUM academic and teaching staff who:
- Design assessments
- Supervise theses or graduate research
- Lead undergraduate or postgraduate courses
- Support student learning in any discipline
- Academic staff
- Researchers with teaching responsibilities
- PhD candidates involved in teaching
- Teaching assistants
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Analyse contemporary assessment practices in higher education
- Distinguish between summative, formative, participatory, and assessment-as-learning models
- Design transparent, student-centred assessment tasks
- Apply UDL principles to assessment design
- Evaluate the pedagogical and ethical implications of AI-supported assessment and feedback
- Develop sustainable feedback and feed-forward systems
- Conduct and document a small-scale action research project on assessment redesign
What Participants Gain
- Practical tools for inclusive and culturally responsive assessment
- Strategies to strengthen assessment literacy and transparency
- Feedback-rich and feed-forward assessment design models
- 8 ECTS credits
- Certification of Completion
- Digital Badge
How to Enrol
The course is open to self-enrolment. You can enrol either visiting the INGENIUM Course Catalogue and selecting the Registration link listed in the course or by visiting the INGENIUM Education Platform directly and logging in with your institutional email address.
For staff from HKA and MTU:
Because institutional email access is currently restricted, please complete the dedicated registration form so that our team can manually create your LMS account. Once your account is set up, you’ll receive an email confirmation with login details and can then enrol in the course.
Peter Fogel