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Teaching and Learning Welcome Back: Assessment in the Era of GPA and GenAI

4 Sep, 2026 - 4 Sep, 2026 10am to 1pm Grangegorman
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Welcome Back

You are invited to register for this three hour in-person event taking place in the Central Quad (CQ-008), Grangegorman on Friday 4th September, from 10am to 1pm.

The event includes:

  • Workshop to support lecturers in making best use of assessment rubrics in their students' assessment.
  • Tour of the new teaching and learning website, which has been designed explicitly with the needs of lecturers in mind.
  • Launch of the 2026-27 LTA Affiliates panel.

Keynote Presentation

The keynote presentation will be delivered by Prof. Taha Yasseri, the Workday Full Professor and Chair of Technology and Society in Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin, on the topic of "A New Sociology of Humans and Machines". 

Presentation Abstract: A New Sociology of Humans and Machines

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how students learn, how educators teach, and how institutions think about knowledge, creativity, and assessment. In this lecture, Taha Yasseri will present a series of experiments examining how humans and machines interact in shared social environments. Using controlled studies, he investigated how humans and artificial agents compete, coordinate, negotiate, and make decisions together. The findings show that AI systems do not simply act as neutral tools; they change human behaviour, influence trust and cooperation, and shape collective outcomes in often unexpected ways. As AI systems become embedded in classrooms, workplaces, and everyday life, understanding the social dynamics of human–machine interaction becomes increasingly important for educators and students alike. The presentation will reflect on what these emerging dynamics may mean for teaching, learning, and the future role of universities in an AI-mediated society.

Speaker Biography

Taha YasseriTaha Yasseri is the Workday Full Professor and Chair of Technology and Society at Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin. He directs the TCD-TU Dublin Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM). He is also an adjunct Full Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin.
He was a Professor and the Deputy Head at the School of Sociology and a Geary Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. Before that, he was a Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and a Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Wolfson College. Taha Yasseri has a PhD in Complex Systems Physics from the University of Göttingen, Germany.
He has interests in the analysis of large-scale transactional data and conducting behavioural experiments to understand human dynamics, machines’ social behaviour, government-society interactions, online political behaviour, mass collaboration and collective intelligence, information and opinion dynamics, hate speech and content moderation, collective behaviour, and online dating.

Registration

Registration will be opened in June 2026. All are welcome.