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What are the Grand Challenges facing Learning Analytics?

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The Learning Analytics field is now a teenager, having launched in 2011. With the explosive rise of GenAI, this seemed a good moment for the community to reflect on where we need to go. CIC's Kirsty Kitto co-chaired a whole day workshop to wrangle this... Assoc. Prof. Kirsty Kitto co-led a stimulating international workshop entitled, What are the Grand Challenges of Learning Analytics? as part of the International Conference on Learning Analytics. The mission: In line with the conference t...
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Award! CIC and faculties co-design personalised feedback to build student belonging

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UTS awards CIC’s multi-year, multidisciplinary faculty collaboration, using the OnTask tool to scale personalised feedback and build student belonging. Since 2017, CIC has been supporting academics to embed OnTask messaging in learning design, offering workshops and consultations. When Dr Lisa-Angelique Lim joined CIC in 2021, she took this work to a new level, leading a learning community to implement OnTask across a wider range of subjects, thereby enabling personalised feedback and suppo...
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Degrees of Belonging: Gaining insights into student belonging through theory-informed learning analytics

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Our research stream into Belonging Analytics has been putting a new platform through its paces in a pilot study... We're delighted to share a new development in our Belonging Analytics research program, after piloting the SenseMaker® platform. We design a SenseMaker framework grounded in theories of belonging, to identify key dimensions, indicators, and factors of belonging. Story prompts invite students to share a story or an experience that made them feel that they belong or do not be...
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How do you get an LLM to perform deductive coding, and explain itself?

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Could we develop trustworthy "Belonging Analytics" from AI analysis of students' reflective writing? There's growing interest in the use of large language models (LLMs) like GPT, Gemini and Claude to assist with qualitative data analysis. In this work, we develop and evaluate a methodology to prompt GPT to perform theory-based deductive coding of student reflective writing. CIC PhD candidate Sriram Ramanathan is focused on what learning analytics can tell us about university students' se...
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Game Theoretic Models of Intangible Learning Data

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Learning Analytics is full of situations where features essential to understanding the learning process cannot be measured. In this work, doctoral candidate Ben Hicks and Kirsty Kitto propose an approach... Hicks, B., & Kitto, K. (2025). Game Theoretic Models of Intangible Learning Data. Proceedings of the 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, Dublin, IRE.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3706468.3706557 Learning Analytics is full of situations where features essential...
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Assessing the value of a decade’s doctoral consortia

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Doctoral Consortia can be transformational experiences for PhD candidates. But what makes them work well, and how do you evaluate their impact? CIC's team have been involved for over a decade in both leading and participating in the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge. Here's our analysis of how it functions as induction into the community of practice — joint work by CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum and Yuveena Gopalan, working with Rebecca Fer...
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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, reuniting with Gloria Fernandez-Nieto & Antonette Shibani (2 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 revi...
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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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