UTS:CIC | Connected Intelligence Centre

Welcome to the Connected Intelligence Centre

Connecting human and machine intelligence to enhance learning
Generative AI

CIC is helping shape the UTS strategic response to GenAI, and is engaged nationally and internationally
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Coauthorship Integrity: Reconceptualising Assessment Validity for the Age of GenAI

Cultivating students' epistemic ownership and accountability for their work — could the "AI viva" be part of the future?...
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Student Voices on AI in HE project

>8000 students from 4 universities tell us why they do/don't use GenAI, and the uncertainty it's created for them
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AI for learner flourishing?

UNESCO Mahatma Ghandi Institute of Education invites our thoughts
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Degrees of belonging

Gaining insights into student belonging through theory-informed learning analytics
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Can AI 'make sense' of student reflections?

Exploring the potential of LLMs for inductive & deductive coding
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There's a global polycrisis on — we need to talk (with AI?)

Conversational AI can serve as a “thinking partner” in turbulent times
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Drag or traction? The argument for more frictional AI

As the evidence from generative AI in higher education starts to roll in, it is becoming clear that “frictionless” GenAI often undermines learning.
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Educating for Collective Intelligence

Our future graduates will be learning within hybrid human/AI teams, and designing them...
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Vanessa Andreotti: Repurposing the University in Times of Social and Ecological Breakdown

How might educators prepare ourselves and our students to navigate current and coming disruptions?
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Coauthorship Integrity: Reconceptualising Assessment Validity for the Age of GenAI

Don't blame the AI: you're accountable for your work! VivaBuddy is a form of "AI viva" that helps students check they haven't outsourced too much thin...

Welcome visiting scholar Rene Kizilcec!

CIC is delighted to welcome Rene Kizilcec (Cornell University) as a visiting scholar until January 2027… Rene Kizilcec is an Associate Professor of I...

TEQSA: Adaptive capabilities are critical for HigherEd in the age of GenAI

TEQSA has just published a forward-looking new briefing on "adaptive capabilities", including contributions from CIC's Lisa Lim Distributed Cognition...

Lisa Lim scoops SoLAR Early Career Researcher Award!

The hot news from Bergen, where CIC has a team participating in the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK26), is that Li...

Feedback to the Future at LAK26!

Without a doubt, new technologies offer exciting opportunities to supercharge personalised feedback at scale. But beyond the hype, what are critical c...

Hong Kong Poly EDC: Conversational AI, polycrisis, education

Conversational AI can serve as a “thinking partner” to stretch our reasoning, deepen reflection, and foster the intellectual agility needed to navigat...

Welcome visiting scholar Linda Castañeda!

CIC is delighted to welcome Prof. Linda Castañeda (University of Murcia) as a visiting scholar June-September... Linda is Professor of Educational Te...

How do you get an LLM to perform deductive coding, and explain itself?

Could we develop trustworthy "Belonging Analytics" from AI analysis of students' reflective writing? There's growing interest in the use of large...