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Bridget Payne

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For the month of June, CIC's admin assistant, Bridget travelled to Bangalore, India to take part in a volunteering internship program with 40K Globe. 40K Globe carries out programs in rural India where Australian university students work on hands-on programs, creating entrepreneurial solutions to issues such as access to education, waste and employment for women. UTS has partnered with 40K Globe to provide grants to UTS students wishing to participate in the 40K Globe program. As part of her pr...
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Ecopolicy – a simulation game for students

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CIC have recently submitted a grant application for the use of a simulation game (called Ecopolicy®) in sustainability and management subjects in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (DAB). This project is aimed at developing the pedagogical strategies and exploring the learning analytics requirements using Ecopolicy® to teach about sustainability, complexity and systems thinking as an active learning experience. It will help to develop ‘blended’ learning approaches in undergraduate ...
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Key Technology Partner Visiting Fellowship Program

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Key Technology Partner (KTP) Visiting Fellowship Program awarded one of CIC’s research fellows, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado with a grant to fund, Mykola Pechenizkiy a Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology to travel to UTS and CIC in February 2017. Mykola is one of the leading researchers in Educational Data Mining (President of the International EDM Society).This funding seeks to develop long-term collaboration with UTS and CIC and Eindhoven University and to explore opportunities for ...
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Academic Writing Analytics (AWA)

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Ongoing work on the Academic Writing Analytics (AWA) tool is being conducted. Ethics clearance has been granted for researchers to collaborate with academics to analyse historic essays, resulting in a corpus of (cleaned and anonymized) essays from science, law, and accounting subjects. This provides a baseline for intervention work in law and accounting (VCLT supported) to investigate (a) the effectiveness of AWA in supporting students understanding of the assessment criteria through a benchma...
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CIC at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences

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Last week CIC's Simon Knight attended the 12th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) in Singapore. The conference theme "Transforming Learning, Empowering Learners" brought a focus onto design features of pedagogy and the empowerment of students to design their own social futures through participation in their global world. The conference brought together practitioners and researchers with interests in instruction and learning as well as learning technologies and learning anal...
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MDSI – Master of Data Science & Innovation

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The Master of Data Science and Innovation (MDSI) is now in its 2nd year and is proving to be a flagship program of study in UTS’ strategy to be a leading university of technology. Taking a trans-disciplinary approach, the MDSI utilises a range of perspectives from diverse fields and integrates them with industry experiences, real-world projects and self-directed study, equipping graduates with an understanding of the potential of analytics to transform practice. MDSI is a unique course that ai...
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Analytics for Collaboration and Creative Intelligence

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CIC has recently launched a new strand which focuses on making visible how people work in teams, both face-to-face and online. This is led by Educational Data Scientist Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, who joined us in September 2015. He brings expertise in the use of technologies that can detect what is happening in face-to-face meetings, such as Kinect sensors to differentiate learner’s actions, microphone arrays to capture who is speaking when, and multitouch surfaces. Roberto and the CIC team ...
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Hackathon – NASA Space App 2016

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An MDSI student perspective on attending the NASA Space APP Hackathon By Anthony So What is a Hackathon? A hackathon is an event where the participants collaborate to tackle some problems and challenges set by the organiser. This kind of event is getting more and more popular across the globe. Corporations, governments or NGOs have seen the benefits in organising these competitions. First it is a good opportunity for them to create some buzz around their organisations, secondly they can find tal...
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CIC-Around

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This semester has seen the launch of a new CIC community space to support learning for MDSI students. Responding to student feedback, CIC has worked with students to develop a wordpress multi-site platform to provide a community space for discussion and blogging called: CIC-Around. CIC has received VC teaching and learning grant funds to support a community steward in the project - to be introduced soon - to support our understanding of the community needs, and how we can further develop the p...
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MDSI students enjoy data slam success

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For a small but dedicated band of students in our new MDSI program, Spring Semester has been shaped around one constant: hackathons! Data challenges ( or data slams as we like to call them) are growing in popularity as ways to put 'fast-fail' approaches into practice on small but instrumental bursts. Our students have participated in GovHack, UnearthedSydney, AusDM and NSWDAC. At every turn they have had impressive results - culminating in their most recent success at an invitation-only challen...
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