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TEQSA has just published a forward-looking new briefing on "adaptive capabilities", including contributions from CIC's Lisa Lim Distributed Cognition, Hybrid Metacognition, Learner Agency and Self-Regulation. No this isn't an AIED or LearningAnalytics research paper, but the very progressive briefing commissioned by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, setting out the urgent need to cultivate Adaptive Capabilities in our students: "the high-level, integrated capacities that ena...
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Cast your mind back to 1996... the Web's shiny and new, and we're trying to figure out what this means for scholarly publishing in EdTech... The Web is a 3 year old toddler, we've just figured out how to embed multimedia in Mosaic and Netscape browsers (hello Apple QuickTime, MacroMind Shockwave, Java applets...), Paul Ginsparg's 5 years into something he calls arXiv, Stevan Harnad's championing open access journals and piloting “scholarly skywriting”, and the threaded discussions of the wildly...
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Don't blame the AI: you're accountable for your work! VivaBuddy is a form of "AI viva" that helps 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, regardles...
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GenAI has wreaked disruption not only with university teaching teams and administrators, but also the students. Here's what they're telling us... The Student Voices on AI in HE project is run by a consortium of UTS, UQ, Deakin and Monash, sponsored by their respective DVCs for Education. The mission 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...
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Conversational AI can serve as a “thinking partner” to stretch our reasoning, deepen reflection, and foster the intellectual agility needed to navigate turbulent times CIC's Director Simon Buckingham Shum was honoured recently to contribute to The Hong Kong Polytechnic Educational Design Centre's International Dialogues on Educational Transformation, with a seminar and discussion on his current work considering the role that conversational GenAI may play as we grapple with the global polycrisis...
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The hot news from Bergen, where CIC has a team participating in the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK26), is that Lisa Lim has received international recognition by the Society for Learning Analytics Research, picking up the SoLAR Emerging Scholar Award for Australasia 👏👏👏 Here she is with CIC colleagues Ben Hicks and Simon Buckingham Shum, with CIC alumnus Kirsty Kitto sneaking into the frame — now Professor of AI in Education at the University of Bergen, ho...
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As the evidence from generative AI in higher education starts to roll in, it is becoming clear that “frictionless” GenAI often undermines learning. GenAI products designed to minimise the user’s effort to obtain a polished answer or document undermine intellectual work such as questioning assumptions, reframing problems, or revising claims. As this interaction paradigm establishes itself in higher education (surveys consistently report student usage at approximately 80%) the consequences of uns...
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The UTS Health Faculty's GenAI-ENHANCE Summit provides an annual snapshot of the leading edge applied research that's testing the potential of GenAI to deepen learning in their diverse health programs, as well as how GenAI is changing professional practice. CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum was honoured to give the keynote, painting a broader contextual picture, before the program deep-dived into specific contexts. Continuing the theme of his recent work, he explored the intersection of 3 concepts:...
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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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