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UTS VCLT Grant 2017: Noisy Sheets – A Practical Approach to Scalable, Authentic Assessment for Quantitative Literacy

Posted on April 11, 2017 by CIC Editor

Project: Noisy Sheets: A Practical Approach to Scalable, Authentic Assessment for Quantitative Literacy This collaborative projects with the UTS School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences will develop an application to support authentic data analytics assessment as a flipped-learning activity. We will develop an application that enables us to share an individual copy of a dataset to all students via google sheets. The dataset will be modified such that each student re...
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UTS VCLT Grant 2017: Investigating the diagnostic potential of a science benchmarking task

Posted on April 11, 2017 by CIC Editor

The project will investigate student outcomes of a flipped learning ‘benchmarking’ activity in which students are asked to grade and give feedback on sections of assignment that they subsequently write their own versions of. Prior investigation highlights the enormous benefits of this kind of task, but rarely are outcomes quantitatively evaluated to inform future practice. This project aims to use a large dataset from Biocomplexity at UTS to inform ongoing development of this learning strate...
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CIC partners with UTS faculties for analytics innovation projects

Posted on April 11, 2017 by CIC Editor

The UTS Connected Intelligence Centre continues to play a key role in catalysing and validating the use of analytics by faculties across the university in their learning and teaching programs. We are delighted to announce that in the most recent round of 2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Grants, CIC secured three small grants for collaborative projects with UTS teams from the Faculty of Science; the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and the Faculty of Law. The projects a...
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CIC welcomes Endeavour Research Fellow Bikalpa Neupane

Posted on March 27, 2017 by CIC Editor

Last week, UTS: CIC welcomed new Endeavour Research Fellow Bikalpa Neupane to its Blackfriars research hub in Chippendale, Sydney. Bikalpa will be working with colleagues on a peer assessment of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for the next five months at UTS. We sat down with Bikalpa to learn about his story and his current research work. Tell us a bit about your background - where did you grow up and go to school? My name’s Bikalpa Neupane, but I usually go by 'Bik'. I was born in Sou...
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UTS wins award at International Learning Analytics Conference

Posted on March 21, 2017 by CIC Editor

A collaborative research paper produced by academics from the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre (CIC) and UTS Pharmacy has been awarded Best Full Paper at the 7th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference in Canada. Dr Andrew Gibson, Dr Simon Knight. Dr Adam Aitken and Professor Simon Buckingham Shum from the UTS CIC along with Dr Agnes Sandor from the Xerox Research Centre in France and UTS Pharmacy academic Dr Cherie Lucas were recognised in Vancouver, BC, at the conference ru...
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UTS Connected Intelligence Centre hosts first CIC-Squared event for 2017

Posted on March 13, 2017 by CIC Editor

5-7:00pm, March 3, 2017 CIC Ideation Studio, 2 Blackfriars St, Chippendale Our first CIC-Squared event for 2017 welcomed representatives from universities and industry interested in the field of Data Science. The casual event offered attendees and opportunity to meet and connect with the CIC team, our Master of Data Science & Innovation students, Data Science professionals and research partners. Stay tuned for our next CIC-Squared event in May 2017.
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Connecting Nodes for a Human Data Ethics network

Posted on March 9, 2017 by CIC Editor

One of CIC’s key roles at UTS is to connect people, ideas and data as we wrestle with the opportunities and challenges posed by Big Data. So, on March 6, we were delighted to host colleagues from the faculties, student support units and administration, to discuss their diverse interests in Data Ethics. Associate Professor Theresa Anderson hosted the networking event and set the scene. As data infrastructure and machine intelligence impacts sectors like education, business, health, medicine and...
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Kirsty Kitto joins CIC

Posted on March 6, 2017 by CIC Editor

We are delighted to announce that Kirsty Kitto has joined CIC as a Senior Lecturer in Data Science. Kirsty brings a transdisciplinary approach to the challenge of modelling, and deploying data science applications in complex social systems (such as learning), and is respected internationally within the Complex Systems, Learning Analytics, and ExperienceAPI (xAPI) communities. We’ll let her introduce herself! I create novel computational and mathematical approaches to the modelling of cogniti...
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Access changes for CIC visitors during Blackfriars construction work

Posted on March 1, 2017 by CIC Editor

Construction on UTS’s new Blackfriars Children’s Centre will begin soon following the excavation of the site adjacent to CIC. Safety fences and hoardings have been installed, the former amenities block has been demolished and building work is due to commence in mid-March. CIC staff and visitors should note the following: The Blackfriars St entry is now closed. All pedestrians and cyclists need to enter/exit via the Buckland St footpath. Moderate noise associated with construction t...
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Ph.D Learning Analytics

Posted on February 21, 2017 by CIC Editor

We are delighted to announce that CIC’s doctoral program in Learning Analytics is offering three UTS Scholarships for 2017. CIC’s mission is to invent, evaluate and theorise the design of human-centered data science and learning analytics. As you will see from our work, and the three PhD topics advertised, a core theme is analytics techniques to nurture in learners the creative, critical, sensemaking qualities needed for lifelong learning, employment and citizenship in a complex, data-saturated...
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