Sweta Thakur | Head - Information Technology (IT) School and Member of the Australian Computer Society
King's Own Institute

Dr Sweta Thakur is Head of School of Information Technology at KOI, providing academic leadership across undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Information Technology and Information Systems. With more than two decades of experience in higher education in Australia and overseas, she has extensive expertise in teaching and learning, technology-enhanced education, curriculum design, and course development across Computing, Information Technology, Information Systems, and Business Administration with an Information Technology specialisation. Her leadership focuses on enhancing teaching quality, student experience, and academic performance through innovative technology integration, curriculum development, and continuous improvement. She has significant experience in TEQSA course registration, Australian Computer Society (ACS) accreditation, and academic governance, and leads a large School supporting a large student cohort and a substantial team of academic staff. Her research interests include Machine Learning, Digital Image Processing, Medical Imaging, Educational Technology, Work-Integrated Learning in Computing, Reflective Practice, and Big Data integration into curriculum development. She is a Member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), Senior Member of IEEE, and member of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA). She also represents KOI at the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) and the Council of Australian University Leaders in Learning and Teaching (CAULLT). At EDUtech 2027, Dr Thakur and her colleague will present how educators can redesign curriculum, learning content and assessment to support students in developing human and adaptive capabilities in the GenAI era. They will shed light on what students must learn to do independently, without cognitive offloading. At the same time, they will discuss how AI can extend their thinking and which tasks they can appropriately delegate as technologies evolve.