Assuring Learning in the Age of AI: Strategic Insights and Sector Directions- Preliminary Benchmarking Report

Abstract

Executive SummaryThis report presents findings from the first in a series of three sector-wide events led by Torrens University Australia as part of an Assurance of Learning in the Age of AI initiative. Drawing on an ASCILITE panel discussion (29 October 2025) with five institutional leaders from Curtin University, Flinders University, Edith Cowan University, University of Sydney, and Torrens University Australia, together with reflections collected via Padlet from the more than 100 higher-education professionals, the report captures perspectives from both panelists and participants. Together, these insights launched the benchmarking phase of the initiative.Building on the ASCILITE 2025 paper, Assurance of Learning in the Age of AI: A Sector Scan and Future-Focused Call to Action (Logan-Fleming et al., 2025) this report identifies a sector united in its desire to move beyond reactive compliance toward credible, sustainable, and human-centred assurance of learning (AoL). Across discussions, panelists and participants emphasised the need to reconceptualise AoL as a strategic capability that scaffolds learning across the student journey, rather than a bureaucratic process centred on assessment. Integrity, participants argue, is best built through guidance, support, and authenticity, not policing.This report also highlights the realities shaping implementation. Participants described persistent pedagogical capability gaps, heavy workload pressures, and inequities amplified by rus…