- Design-4: Provides students with constructive, actionable feedback on their performance and analyses assessment results to inform teaching practice
Revolutionising engineering education with AI
In 2024, I submitted a video to the UNSW Scientia Education Academy Exemplary Teaching Practice Awards (category: "Using AI in teaching and assessment") describing how I integrated Large Language Models into two Australian War College courses - ZEIT8205 Fundamentals of Surveillance Technologies and ZEIT8213 Communication and Information Systems.
The challenge was specific: my
Automated Assessment with AI-Powered Feedback
When teaching programming to 200+ first-year students in ZEIT1307, providing timely, actionable feedback on code submissions is a genuine bottleneck. Together with research assistants I founded MarkMyWorks.com to address this. The platform automates code testing against specification-derived test cases (ensuring assessment is aligned with stated learning outcomes - Design-3) and runs linting
Take-Away Assessment-Driven Course Structure
At the Australian War College, my courses ZEIT8213 Communication and Information Systems. and ZEIT8205 Fundamentals of Surveillance Technologies are built around a take-away assessment structure that allows mid-career military officers to study at their own pace outside of contact hours. The assessed components - weekly homework assignments (10 out of 13 weeks), discussion forum contributions