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AI in HE? CIC@ASCILITE 2025

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CIC's Lisa-Angelique Lim was engaged on multiple fronts at ASCILITE: here's the lowdown... ASCILITE25 (Nov 30 - Dec 3) brought together the Asia-Pacific region's leading Educational Technology voices to Adelaide. This year's focus on AI exemplifies the conference's ongoing commitment to addressing the most pressing and transformative issues in higher education. As the region’s most established and influential gathering for educational technology research and practice, ASCILITE provides a platfo...
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The invisible labour of making AI functional with workarounds

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What does it take to get Copilot working well with finance data? New work led by Shane Lee sheds light on the “invisible labour” often required for AI productivity gains... We all recognise the marketing discourse around GenAI promising staff empowerment and rapid productivity gains. However, Shane Lee’s work injects a dose of reality, documenting how sociotechnical realities on the ground can introduce ‘friction’ before such gains are realised, requiring various “workarounds” (an established c...
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Harnessing the power of genAI tools with learning analytics in learning design

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GenAI tools offer students an additional 24/7 partner in their learning, while learning analytics offer solutions to personalised feedback to foster self-regulated learning. How can both work together in a single tool, within the context of a learning design? Generative AI (genAI) tools – especially large language models (LLMs) - are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in education, providing yet another partner for students in their learning. Their 24/7 availability and conversational functions o...
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Coauthorship Integrity: Reconceptualizing Assessment Validity for the Age of GenAI

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Don't blame the AI: you're accountable for your work! "VivaBuddy" aims to help students check they haven't outsourced too much thinking when they co-author with AI. Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh is a doctoral researcher in the Transdisciplinary School, supervised by Antonette Shibani and CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum, supported by CIC Specialist Software Engineer Andrey Inkin. As we move into an era when undetectable AI is both deepening and undermining thinking and writing, regardless of how much AI ma...
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CIC is 10!

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10 years ago today, the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre (CIC) launched. In fact on that day, I was in the air en route London to Sydney, not only to start the new job, but on a pressing mission to find a home and school for the rest of the family, who would land in 6 weeks time! Jenna Price and John made me very welcome in their home, and who better than two wonderful journalists to give me a crash orientation course to life in Sydney and AUS – a special time! Shirley Alexander, UTS VP/...
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Open Source Writing Analytics

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   CIC has released its Academic Writing Analytics (AWA) infrastructure open source. THE CHALLENGE. CIC initiated its Academic Writing Analytics (AWA) project in 2015, as it became clear through consultations across faculties that student writing was a strategically important area for UTS teaching and learning (and indeed, for most other educational institutions). The possibility of providing instant, personalised, actionable feedback to students about their drafts, 24/7, is a compelling one. ...
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heta.io • ATN Text Analytics kickoff workshop

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The ATN-funded Higher Education Text Analytics project convened for its kickoff workshop at the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre this week. The mission: to build capacity in our institutions to gain new insights into textual data using natural language processing. Our skills matrix revealed an exciting mix of expertises, with staff spanning academic researchers, cloud architects, writing pedagogy specialists, analytics developers and senior managers from institutional analytics centres. Two...
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Job: 4 yr PostDoc: Writing Analytics

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CIC Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Writing Analytics (IRC104013) Job Summary [PDF version] [Detailed Person Specification PDF] The University of Technology Sydney has a bold vision to be a world-leading university of technology. We are a dynamic and innovative university in central Sydney, consistently ranked the top young university in Australia. The UTS Connected Intelligence Centre (CIC) is an innovation centre whose mission is to build the university’s capacity to gain insights from analyti...
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Towards Contested Collective Intelligence

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As society's problems get only more complex (not just more complicated), there is growing interest in how we can blend "the cloud with the crowd" — the best of machine intelligence and human intelligence. Specifically, complex, wicked problems are never resolvable by individuals analysing a problem and announcing the solution. Multiple perspectives are needed, and engaging stakeholders in helping to define the problem, never mind deciding what might count as an acceptable solution, is critical. ...
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Addressing educators’ concerns about Learning Analytics

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It was a pleasure to spend Tuesday afternoon in Melbourne at the Assessment Research Centre (Director, Sandra Milligan) and Centre for the Study of Higher Education (Director, Gregor Kennedy). There is such a breadth and depth of work in these centres, and I met an extraordinary range of researchers. They invited me to address the concerns that many educators have around "Learning Analytics" — the application of data science to educational data, so here goes... Teaching, Assessment and Learning...
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