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Student Perspectives on AI in Education (2024)

Building on the success at UTS of our 2021 EdTech Ethics Consultation, and the 2023 AI Ethics Workshops — we're back! This time, working with 3 other unis, doing a deep-dive into how you're thinking about Generative AI, just over a year since ChatGPT exploded on the world. Now of course, there are many other apps out there, and generating more than text: including Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Midjourney, DALL-E, Sora...) Photo by Maxime VALCARCE on Unsplash You are invited to...
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CIC@LAK24 Kyoto

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The International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) is the annual conference of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), and the premier forum for researchers and practitioners. LAK24 comes to Kyoto this year, and several of the CIC team and our alumni will be contributing next week. Catch us there, or get in touch if you want to know more!... To what extent do responses to a single survey question provide insights into students' sense of belonging? Srira...
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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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Belonging Analytics: new concept, paper, webinar, community

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Connecting the fields of student belonging and learning analytics: "Belonging Analytics" As with every purposeful human endeavour, motivation for learning and becoming a professional within a discipline is enhanced when individuals feel a sense of belonging. In the context of education, belonging refers to students’ subjective feeling of being a valued member of the learning community, that comes from a sense of connection with others as well as to the course of study. This affective dimensio...
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CIC celebrates 3 PhD graduates

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Last week, CIC celebrated 3 of our students as they graduate with their PhD.  Dr. Vanessa Echeverria Barzola Year of completion: 2020 (commenced 2016) Thesis title: 'Designing Feedback for Collocated Teams using Multimodal Learning Analytics' Supervisor/s: Prof. Simon Buckingham Shum & Dr. Roberto Maldonado Martinez Thesis access link: https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/140936 Dr. Vanessa Echeverria Barzola is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash University, Austra...
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New CIC publication explores the intersection between big data and educational theory

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Using causal models to bridge the divide between big data and educational theory A new journal paper by Kirsty Kitto, Ben Hicks and Simon Buckingham Shum has just been published in the British Journal of Educational Technology: Abstract: With the proliferation of data in educational settings it is becoming even more important to ensure analytical results are grounded in reality. Ideally we would like to embed our theoretical concepts from the learning sciences in our data products ...
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PhD Stage 1 Seminar: Sriram Ramanathan – Understanding how automated feedback promotes a sense of belonging, engagement, and academic achievement in higher education

PhD Candidate: Sriram Ramanathan Please note that this is an open Stage 1 PhD seminar, in which the candidate will summarise their research, prior to a viva with reviewers. Your support and constructive feedback are most welcome! Abstract: This is a PhD Stage 1 seminar to present and share the identified gaps in the literature review, proposed research questions, early results, and proposal for further investigations. An integral component of a student’s journey is about them fe...
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PhD Stage 2 Seminar: Yuveena Gopalan – Researchers’ Perceptions on Becoming a Better Researcher

Registration This is a hybrid event and registration is required. Please register for face-to-face attendance by contacting us here or you may attend via Zoom here (https://utsmeet.zoom.us/j/87096621402?from=addon). Thesis Title: Researchers' Perceptions on Becoming a Better Researcher PhD candidate: Yuveena Gopalan Please note that this is an open Stage 2 PhD seminar. Your support and constructive feedback are most welcome! Abstract Professional development is vital and necess...
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AI Ethics Consultation 2023

Photo by Maxime VALCARCE on Unsplash Update, 2 Nov 2023: Student Partnership in AI Workshop Reports    Advancing education using state of the art AI UTS is committed to the responsible use of the most advanced technologies to improve student success. We therefore want to consult with students on two new advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI): > Generative AI has hit the headlines in the last 6 month with the release of ChatGPT, which is a breakthrough in AI. ...
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