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Rupert Wegerif (U Cambridge) on AI and dialogic education

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CIC was delighted to convene a small group of academics and PhD students to meet with Professor Rupert Wegerif, Director of the Digital Education Futures Initiative at Cambridge University. Prof. Wegerif brings decades of research into the centrality of dialogue and dialogic learning,  his last two books being The Theory of Educational Technology: Towards a Dialogic Foundation for Design (with Louis Major), and Rethinking Educational Theory: Education as Expanding Dialogue. Over 2.5 hours,...
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CIC@LAK25!

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Team CIC bringing it to Dublin... Ram Ramanathan, Ben Hicks & Yuveena Gopalan (Doctoral Researchers), Lisa Lim, Simon Buckingham Shum, Gloria Fernandez-Nieto & Antonette Shibani (PhD Alumni!), and Kirsty Kitto The International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) is one of the leading forums to explore the entanglement of people and technology, including a growing stream of work on generative AI in education in recent years. Papers are peer reviewed double-blind...
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Student Voices on AI in HE project

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The Student Voices on AI in HE project is a multi-university collaboration to give university students a voice in how they are making sense of the generative AI revolution. CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum and Lisa Lim have been working with other UTS colleagues (Jan McLean, Nicole Pepperell, Antonette Shibani) to design and run a survey with >8000 students, and focus groups with 79 students. The project's results are gradually being released as we crunch the huge amounts of quantitative an...
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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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Can responses to a single survey question provide insights into students’ sense of belonging?

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Doctoral researcher Ram Ramanathan recently presented his PhD work on Belonging Analytics, an emerging concept that we are developing here in CIC. Here's the replay/paper/slides from the international Learning Analytics conference at the Kyoto International Conference Center, and below are his personal reflections on this trip! Sriram Ramanathan, Simon Buckingham Shum, and Lisa-Angelique Lim. 2024. To what extent do responses to a single survey question provide insights into students' sen...
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Skills Passports at the Lifelong Learning Border

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Kirsty Kitto (CIC Assoc. Prof. Data Science) has a new paper critically examining visions of the "Skills Passport", and identifying two key challenges that must be overcome for such a concept to become reality. In the light of the Australian Universities Accord report, this could not be more timely to inform the debate. Here's the latest work she will present at UMAP24 — the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, t...
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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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Meaningful, impactful dialogue about the ethics of AI in university

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Is there a practical way to engage the diversity of a university community in a meaningful, impactful dialogue about the ethical use of AI in teaching and learning? Yes there is, and here's how we did it... In Sept-Dec 2021, under pandemic lockdown, we ran five carefully facilitated, online workshops with a diverse group of students and staff. Their mission: to learn about the emerging world of educational technologies powered by data, analytics, and now AI to engage in critical thinkin...
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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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UTS Student Partnership in AI

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In 2021, we convened an EdTech Ethics consultation, pioneering the principles of Deliberative Democracy as a process for university consultation. Building on this success, in late May 2023, we convened AI ethics workshops with 40 UTS students to share their perspectives on what the use of Generative AI and Predictive AI should look like in the future of UTS. The students were sampled from over 100 applicants, based on a range of diversity points. Out of this came two reports, co-authored with...
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