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Apologies for resending this – the story links should work in this version!
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September 2019
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Welcome to the CIC newsletter!
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As the UTS 2027 strategy hits its stride, CIC is at the heart of this. We invent, deploy and validate learning tools that use AI/analytics to provide personalised feedback to students, as well as provide data analyses for diverse groups across UTS covering educators, researchers and professional units.
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Just a few of the stories in this issue…
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- How data science helps UTS make evidence-based decisions supporting students with their academic English.
- How it’s possible for the Business School to send a personalised feedback message to every student in a 1000+ cohort… every week!
- The new challenges that lifelong, life-wide learning raises for universities’ data infrastructures
- How CIC has been supporting UTS social justice work, with Law Faculty research into legislation impacting women
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- How human-centred design can shape the way analytics and AI are used in education
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- The Masters and PhD students currently in CIC
- Sad farewells, and warm welcomes to the team that powers everything we do!
Browse CIC’s latest publications for the theoretical, methodological, empirical and technical details behind these stories.
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We look forward to hearing your thoughts on how CIC can help you: cic@uts.edu.au
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Simon Buckingham Shum
Director, Connected Intelligence Centre
Professor of Learning Informatics
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Bringing data science to UTS data challenges
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Data science to support UTS students’ English language development
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UTS has a strong commitment to ensuring that academic English is at an acceptable standard for all students across all disciplines.
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Harnessing Data Science to Protect Women’s Rights
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When a woman is leading the country, do they pass more pro-women laws? Can we say that one country has a better law for women than another, when it comes to domestic violence, tax or some other piece of legislation? Working with UTS Law, CIC has helped to invent a new way to assess legislative bias against women......
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Next Gen Data Scientists
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CIC is passionate about supporting the next generation of data scientists and we currently have 5 interns from the Master of Data Science and Innovation working on various projects.
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Breaking new ground with Learning Analytics
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Piloting personalised feedback at scale with OnTask
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Improving feedback to students is a strategic priority at UTS, and tools like OnTask show what this looks like…
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CIC showcases at EduTECH Australia
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CIC’s work in educational AI/Analytics was on the big stage at EduTECH Australia, the southern hemisphere’s biggest ed-tech convention. Replay the talk and his interview on AI in Education
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Two members of CIC have just co-edited a journal issue on human-centred ways to design Learning Analytics tools – it’s a fascinating read!
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Connecting the dots between LA infrastructure, ethics and lifelong learning
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As UTS moves towards its 2027 aspirations to achieve lifelong personalised learning, we need to connect the dots...
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Can a computer be trained to recognise a reflective pharmacy student?
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CIC has broken new ground by training a machine learning algorithm to distinguish between good and poor reflective writing by pharmacy students. How is this possible?
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CIC co-chairs Collaboration Analytics workshop
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Collaboration Analytics generate insights into how people learn/work together, online and face-to-face. CIC is a world leader in this mix of multi-modal sensors, AI and visualization, and recently brought together top researchers in the field.
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Doctoral Researchers launch their projects
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Here is a sneak peek of what they’ll be inventing:
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Leading Japanese Learning Analytics researchers visit
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CIC caught up with the latest developments in Japan, when Professors Hiroaki Ogata & Atsushi Shimada visited from two of their leading centres.
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Sasha Gromov wins first place in the Cloud Track at Huawei ICT Competition
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The Huawei ICT Competition 2019 Australia is an annual event aimed at developing the professional skills of students around the world. Students can choose the Networking Track
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Last week we said goodbye to Ratha Ang, our Administrative Assistant. She has been part of CIC's professional team since 2017.
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CIC Research Fellow Roberto Martinez-Maldonado was our first postdoctoral researcher, appointed in 2015!
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Welcome Andrey!
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We are delighted to announce that Andrey Inkin has joined CIC as a Full Stack Developer. Andrey grew up in Russia and has a keen interest in the Information Technology industry.
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Welcome Mahesh!
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We are delighted to announce that Mahesh Jeshani has joined CIC as a UX/Front End Developer. Mahesh is particularly interested in the adoption of digital transformations and EdTech.
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Welcome Muna!
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CIC warmly welcomes Muna Musarrat who recently came on board the team. Muna is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at CIC, with a keen focus on the U@Uni Academy project.
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Welcome Aida!
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We are delighted to announce that Aida Haile has joined CIC as an Administrative Assistant. Aida is interested in the application of data science to learning and business models.
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