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Jurgen Schulte joins as a CIC Adjunct Fellow

Posted on January 20, 2022February 16, 2022 by CIC Editor

We extend a warm welcome to Jurgen Schulte, who has been appointed as a CIC Adjunct Fellow! Jurgen Schulte recently retired from UTS after a fantastic career innovating in his teaching in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. He was in fact pioneering “Learning Analytics” in the early 2000s, before the term gained currency, running his own server and mail-merge software to personalise email feedback to his hundreds of students based on aggregated data from their engagement across mu...
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Using Student Data to Provide Semi-Auto-mated, Personalised Feedback: A Hands-on Tutorial

We know how important quality feedback is to learning, but we also know how time consuming this can be to provide. Moreover, while the quality and quantity of data traces generated from student activity are growing at an astonishing pace, this is useless if educators don’t have the capacity to make sense of this, and take appropriate, timely action to support students. How do we navigate this tension? This tutorial introduces a learning analytics tool called OnTask, which provides some automat...
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PLSA UX/LX Workshop

https://youtu.be/QNEhB2do7V4 PLSA UX/LX Workshop (CIC Ideation Studio) This workshop brings together people from multiple universities to share what we know about the design of good User Experience and Learner Experience with systems like OnTask, that enable personalised student feedback at scale, by providing Personalised Learning Support Actions (PLSAs). Through a combination of briefings and hands-on exercises, we will share what we know about the UX/LX dimensions of such tools, and map ke...
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Ensuring automated feedback is pedagogically sound (DAFFI 2020)

Posted on September 14, 2020 by CIC Editor

We all know that feedback is critical for learning — and we all appreciate how demanding this can be for educators to provide, to many students, in a consistently motivating, and detailed way. This is a challenge studied by educational researchers of feedback design and feedback literacy. Designing Automated Feedback for Impact brought some of the leading researchers in this field into a 2-day dialogue with researchers developing automated-feedback tools using Learning Analytics/AI.  The or...
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Training: OnTask OLT Project Workshop for UTS Staff

Ever wondered how to provide your students with individual feedback and recommendations on their learning progress both quickly and easily? On Thursday June 22, the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre (CIC) hosted a hands-on workshop to demonstrate the potential applications of OnTask software for UTS staff. OnTask can be used to integrate data on student activity and learning progress, and automate the mailing out of personalised feedback to your students, composed by yourself based on your per...
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LAK17

CIC recently shared its work in diverse forms and topics at the 7th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK17). LAK17 was held in Vancouver, Canada from March 13-17, 2017 and was organised by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SOLAR). This annual conference brings together a diversity of researchers focused on the many transdisciplinary fields associated with learning analytics and provides a forum to address critical issues and challenges confronting t...
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OnTask: Scalable, Personalised Feedback to Students

Scaling the Provision of Personalised Learning Support Actions to Large Student Cohorts Mission: to improve the quality of student learning in large cohorts by scaling the deployment of "Personal Learning Support Actions (PLSAs)"... [Project website] Aim This project has two aims. The first is to improve the quality of student learning in large cohorts by scaling the deployment of "Personal Learning Support Actions (PLSAs)" within Australian HE institutions. We define PLSAs as any i...
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Course Pathways: Making the right choices for the right reasons

Teaching & Learning Grant, 2016: PI: Jurgen Schulte (Lecturer: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences), with: Roberto Martinez-Maldonado (Research Fellow: Connected Intelligence Centre); Simon Buckingham Shum (Professor: Connected Intelligence Centre); Pedro Fernandez de Mendonca (Student, Master of Data Science & Innovation) This project aims to uncover statistically significant and meaningful patterns in students’ course pathway choices and to derive individual student course-lo...
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NSW Learning Analytics meetup

The NSW Learning Analytics working group will hold its first meetup of 2016 here at UTS. We warmly invite colleagues from across state to join us on Wed 3rd Feb in the stunning new Frank Gehry-designed Chau Chak Wing building in the Level 3 collaborative lecture theatre (CB08.03.005). This is not a formal conference, but the chance to connect with peers to discuss work-in-progress. To register (free!) please email Georgia.Markakis@uts.edu.au with [NSWLAWG] in the subject line to assist, and an...
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Publications

Browse recent publications and conference presentations from CIC academic staff and PhD students. (Note: In the computing sciences, educational technology and learning analytics, papers accepted in the premier conferences are double-blind reviewed, full length articles, archived in the digital libraries of professional societies such as ACM and IEEE.) Kitto, K. (2022). How can EdTech support graduate employability? Proceedings ASCILITE 2022: 39th International Conference on Innovation,...
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