Author: Nizam Kadir
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Two Pathways, One Doctoral Standard: SUTD’s PhD by Innovation and Conventional PhD
SUTD’s new PhD by Innovation pathway connects rigorous doctoral research with a solution validated in practice, while the conventional SUTD PhD continues alongside it. Here is how the pathways differ and what prospective applicants should know.
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The Support Behind Critsly: IAIED Singapore, AIEDx Grants and AIED 2026
Critsly’s development and my participation in AIED 2026 were made possible by support from the Institute of AI in Education (IAIED), Singapore. Here is what that support enabled—and how other educational-AI builders can enquire about an AIEDx Grant.
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LearnAdapt Technical Blueprint v1.2: A Citable Public Resource on Zenodo
LearnAdapt Technical Blueprint v1.2 is now archived on Zenodo as a citable public resource, with both version-specific and persistent concept DOIs.
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Beyond Prompt-to-App: Why Teacher-Facing AI Authoring Needs Accountable Translation
A new arXiv preprint traces how teacher intent changes as an agentic app moves from brief to specification, generated package, checks and approval—and argues that those transformations must remain attributable, inspectable and contestable.
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CALLIOPE: Building an Inspectable Path from Spoken Response to Educator Review
A new technical report presents CALLIOPE’s source-grounded oral-assessment workflow and a bounded synthetic evaluation of the software paths exercised so far.
