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Farewell Ming Liu

Posted on October 7, 2020 by CIC Editor

We bade a sad farewell today to Ming Liu, as amid the pressure COVID19 lockdown, he managed to catch a flight back to his home, family, and a faculty position in China. Ming specialised in Writing Analytics, supporting our long term R&D program for AcaWriter. In particular, he brought expertise in machine learning from reflecting writing texts, so as well as supporting academics in faculties to introduce AcaWriter to their students, he was also inventing next generation technology that will ...
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CIC Welcomes Ming Liu to the team

Posted on August 6, 2018 by CIC Editor

We are delighted to announce that Dr Ming Liu has joined CIC as a Research Fellow in Text Analytics. His research interests include human language technologies in writing and reading and learning analytics especially using technology and data to enhance learning, engagement and collaboration. His research findings have appeared in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Journal of Internet and Higher Education, Educational Technology & Society, Intelligent Tutoring System and other respe...
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Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Posted on December 1, 2023March 14, 2024 by CIC Editor

"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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Learner Profiles

Learning Analytics for Learner Profile Development Chairs: Vitomir Kovanovic (UniSA) & Simon Buckingham Shum (UTS) This session was convened at ALASI22 on 8 Dec. The agenda and slides are below, followed by the session description in the program. It was attended by researchers and practitioners from both higher education and the K-12 schools sector, and sparked some lively discussion which we hope will be the springboard to future events. The briefings were very brief, so we've added l...
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TRACK Skills Analytics

What's the challenge? The TRACK (Tailored Recruitment Analytics & Curriculum Knowledge) project is tackling several challenges — for UTS students, academics, learners outside UTS, and companies looking to upskill their staff. Learners UTS students are often uncertain about what career path they should choose. Many students select their degree based on subjects they enjoyed in high school but are uncertain about what career they can pursue upon graduation. Other students start a d...
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ALASI22

Welcome to ALASI22 University of Technology Sydney, 8-9 Dec. 2022 Building 11, Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007 We are delighted to announce that the 2022 Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute (ALASI22) will be held face-to-face, in Sydney! This national gathering convenes as part of the international network of LASI events sponsored by the Society for Learning Analytics Research. After the 2 year ALASI hiatus, it will be fantastic to connect with each other again, welcome new ...
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Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute (ALASI22)

Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute (ALASI22) University of Technology Sydney, 8-9 Dec. 2022 Building 11, Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007 We are delighted to announce that the 2022 Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute (ALASI22) will be held face-to-face, in Sydney! After the 2 year hiatus, it will be fantastic to connect with each other again, welcome new people into the community, to share our know-how and know-who to build the Learning Analytics community’s capab...
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State-of-the-art reports published on Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in Education

Posted on May 27, 2022July 19, 2022 by CIC Editor

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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CIC@LAK22: thought leadership and hard evidence

Posted on February 11, 2022March 11, 2022 by CIC Editor

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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CIC@LAK 2021: International Learning Analytics Conference

Posted on April 8, 2021 by CIC Editor

The International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge next week is the premier gathering in the field, with double-blind peer review of full papers, and the proceedings archived in the ACM Digital Library, the leading repository for peer reviewed research in the computing sciences. As usual, CIC will be very active this year, contributing to diverse events. Here’s your one-stop-shop to track down the team, who will welcome a chat with you about their work!... The pre-conference ...
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