AI Agents and Workflows: Opportunities and Challenges for Education

 Morning Agenda: 

• 10:00–10:05 — Dr Phil Anthony, University of Kent Introduction
• 10:05–10:20 — Dr Stafford Lumsden, University of Sydney: 
  • The Mountain in the Machine: What Can Cogniti Chat Logs Tell Us About Student Learning?
• 10:20–10:35 — Nassima Kennedy, Australian Institute of Higher Education: 
  • Assurance, Not Lockdown: Using an AI Agent to Scaffold Learning in the Secure Lane
• 10:35–10:50 — Dr Dennis Yeung, Auckland University of Technology: 
  • Beyond the Chatbot: Four Patterns of Purposeful AI Agent Use at Auckland University of Technology
• 10:50–11:05 — James Macaulay, Queensland University of Technology: 
  • Laying the Groundwork for Successful AI Adoption: From Pilot to Practice
• 11:05–11:15 — Q&A, part 1
• 11:15–11:25 — Break
• 11:25–11:40 — Dr Caroline Clewley, Imperial College London: 
  • Agents at Scale: What Happens When the Whole Institution Can Build Them
• 11:40–11:55 — David Morgan & Sarah Zaghoul, University of Bristol: 
  • Building Better Educational AI Agents Together
• 11:55–12:10 — Will Moindrot, Imperial College London & Laura Blundell, University of Liverpool: 
  • From Answer Machine to Trusted Tutor: Scaling VLE-Integrated AI Agents 
• 12:10–12:25 — Alok Kumar Sahu, University of Oxford: 
  • AI agents and workflows in practice
• 12:25–12:35 — Q&A, part 2
• 12:35 - 12:40 - Wrap up

Afternoon Agenda

• 14:00–14:05 — Dr Phil Anthony, University of KentIntroduction
• 14:05–14:20 — Andrew Cummins, East Durham College:
  • Realistic AI Adoption in FE: Building an Institutional Prompt Layer Without a Dev Team
• 14:20–14:35 — Dr Kofinas Alexander, University of Bedfordshire:
  • Benefits and Limitations of the CARA (Collaborative Assessment Redesign Assistant) AI Agent
• 14:35–14:50 — David Spark, Leeds Beckett University:
  • AI Workflows for Inclusive Learning: Designing Multiple Resource Formats for Diverse Needs
• 14:50–15:05 — Richard Ogundele, University of Kent:
  • Governing AI Agents in Education: Three Risk Patterns Pilots Keep Missing
• 15:05–15:15 — Q&A, Part 1
• 15:15–15:30 — Mohamed Warsame, BPP University:
  • Asking a Better Question: An AI Agent for Hypothesis Generation and Literature Synthesis in Apprenticeship EPA Projects
• 15:30–15:45 — Dr Noorhan Abbas, University of Leeds:
  • From Feedback Delivery to Feedback Interpretation
• 15:45–16:00 — Syed Assad Bokhari, University for the Creative Arts:
  • An Educator’s AI Coding Workflow: What It Looks Like, What It Produces, and Where It Breaks
• 16:00–16:15 — Professor James Hutson, Lindenwood University & Kyle Poyer, Integrevise:
  • What the Grade Misses: How AI Supported Oral Assessment Reveals Student Understanding
• 16:15–16:25 — Q&A, part 2
• 16:25-16:30 - Wrap-up 

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