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Simon Knight attends CRADLE Symposium on Digital Assessment Technologies

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On October 16-17, CIC academic Simon Knight attended Deakin University’s “Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning” (CRADLE) International Symposium entitled Re-imagining assessment in a digital world. The Open Forum event featured a panel of domestic and international experts working in the fields of learning science and analytics. Participants reflected on how technology is transforming teaching and learning in higher education. Whilst there are many exciting possibilities in...
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Dr Simon Knight on “fake news”, epistemic cognition & the double-edged sword of data

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CIC Lecturer Dr Simon Knight has produced an article for The British Psychological Society addressing the rise of so-called "fake news", and the way we process information online. The piece, entitled "A lens on fake news" begins as follows: Every day we face complex situations in which the information we need, and who we trust to provide that information, has a very real impact on our lives. How do we evaluate the competing claims of politicians on climate change policy, or Brexit; navigate med...
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Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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"This is our Kodak moment" This provocation was posed by one participant at August's TEQSA expert forum. Over-dramatic? Not if universities lose the capacity to assure learning. Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence is a consultation report from the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), Australia’s independent national quality assurance and regulatory agency for higher education. CIC's Director Simon Buckingham Shum and IML's Director Jan McLean had the pr...
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AI Education Symposium: Frontiers, Trenches & Guard Rails

9.15am (coffee + networking) 10am - 4.30pm (inc. lunch), Friday 10 November 2023, University of Technology Sydney [venue map] A joint event hosted by the Connected Intelligence Centre and the Centre for Research on Education in a Digital Society We're full! Registration now closed. There have been several “AI winters” over the decades when early hopes fizzled out. But they laid key foundations, and right now we are in the sweltering heat of a new AI summer. Most experts in...
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State-of-the-art reports published on Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in Education

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CIC contributes to new reports on the state of the art of Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in Education Australia is fortunate to have some of the leading researchers in Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in Education,some of them being founders of these fields. Over the last year, CIC’s senior researchers Kirsty Kitto and Simon Buckingham Shum have been working with colleagues across the country on a series of research articles, documenting the state of play, and the ...
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PhD Stage 3 Seminar: Sophie Abel – Towards Automated Feedback on Students’ Research Writing: Theory, Design and Evaluation

Thesis Title: Towards Automated Feedback on Students’ Research Writing: Theory, Design and Evaluation PhD candidate: Sophie Abel Abstract Please note that this is an open Stage 3 PhD seminar, in which the candidate will summarise her research, prior to a viva with reviewers. Your support and constructive feedback are most welcome!  Effective research writing skills are essential for Higher Degree Research (HDR) students. Research funding restructures and new university policy d...
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CIC@LAK22: thought leadership and hard evidence

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CIC provides UTS with both thought leadership and hard evidence about Learning Analytics. So it’s no surprise that the team will present multiple times at the premier international forum next month... Universities risk implementing data/analytics strategies that make little impact on real practice, if they don’t work closely with the academics, tutors and students who are expected to use those new tools. This human-centred design approach is one of CIC’s hallmarks, so running through our work...
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What is rigour in learning analytics, and how can we foster it?

The challenge: Over a little more than a decade, the field of learning analytics (LA) has grown. LA has always been characterised as a multidisciplinary field. As the field continues to grow, fuelled by research from multiple perspectives, the question of rigor has become increasingly critical. How can we characterize “quality” in LA work with reference to the confluence of other domains that make up the field? Are there additional features that are distinctive to LA? In their 2019 editorial the...
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LAK21 Workshop: Responsible Learning Analytics: Creating just, ethical, and caring LA systems

Date April 12, 2021 - 1 PM to 4 PM PST (according to LAK pre-conference schedule) Abstract Ethical considerations and the values embedded in the design and use of Learning Analytics (LA) systems have received considerable attention. However, little is known about how conceptual understandings of ethics work in practice and what tensions practitioners (e.g., researchers, teachers, learners) experience when designing or using LA with care. This interactive workshop will provide partic...
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Building data and analytics literacy

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CIC has created engaging online modules and runs regular workshops to help diverse learners get hands-on with data and analytics. Engaging online modules  Building data literacy is now one of the most important qualities in today’s degree programs, and the workplace. CIC has published several engaging, short modules that help learners get hands-on with analysing data, and thinking about the ethical dimensions. These modules, on UTS Open, are being used by the public for free, by UTS students a...
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