Dr Ann Devitt and her colleague Dr Kalliopi Benetos attended this year's Eataw Conference in Switzerland where they both were keynote speakers on the topic of 'The changing role of academic writing technologies in the digital age:supporting and capturing the writing process'.

Issues of academic integrity stemming from AI writing are forcing us to think differently about how we assess learning in academic contexts.
In this presentation, they consider how current academic writing practices and their instruction shape knowledge construction and its demonstration. 
They examine the phases of the writing process and how technology can both support and capture those phases.  Their goal is to open discussion on multiple means of representation of learning beyond traditional academic writing outputs which can still leverage the opportunities for learning that the writing process entails.

Ann Devitt portraitDr. Ann Devitt is associate professor of language and literacy education at the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin.  She is Academic Director for Learnovate, the Enterprise Ireland funded centre of excellence for educational technology which is hosted in Trinity College.

Her research interests lie in the area of language teaching and learning and technology enhanced learning.  She has extensive research experience in both academia and industry having worked in the language and speech technology industries as well as in telecoms for a number of years.

EATAW 2023, organized by Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Winterthur, Switzerland.