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Social Learning Analytics outside the LMS

Posted on May 28, 2015 by CIC Editor

Just kicking off, a project funded by Australian OLT, led by Kirsty Kitto and her team at QUT. This builds on earlier work conceiving Social Learning Analytics [1-2] and work by QUT's Mandy Lupton who is developing the concept of teaching+learning in the wild. This has led to the first release of the Connected Learning Analytics (CLA) Toolkit: “The CLA toolkit helps students and teachers to harvest data about their activities in standard social media environments, and then provide immediate fee...
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Launch of NIC@CIC

Posted on May 28, 2015 by CIC Editor

The UTS research mission is to have societal impact. CIC is committed to educational research that impacts practitioners in the trenches, in our schools and universities — here in Sydney's schools and at UTS, and globally through our interenational network.
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Meet our 2 new Research Fellows

Posted on May 28, 2015 by CIC Editor

CIC is building its team, and we’re delighted to announce the appointment of two new Research Fellows, selected for their human-centred analytics orientation, communication skills and transdisciplinary modes of designing and thinking. Working closely with UTS educators and leaders, Simon and Roberto will help design, deploy, evaluate and theorise next generation analytics tools. These will help both learners and educators see patterns in the data traces left by Learning.Futures student activity....
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Chris Goldspink (Incept Labs): Your worldview shapes your teaching

Posted on May 21, 2015 by CIC Editor

Whether higher education or K-12, one of the greatest challenges in shifting how we teach is shifting teachers’ mindsets. Ruth Crick and I have a long-standing collaboration with Chris Goldspink at Incept Labs, Sydney. Chris brings expertise in the use of analytical tools to make visible the worldviews that practitioners hold. His findings argue that what educators do is grounded in their fundamental conceptions of knowledge, learning and teaching: in short, their epistemologies. Moreover, shi...
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CfP: Learning Analytics for C21 Competencies

Posted on May 18, 2015 by simon

CfP: Learning Analytics for 21st Century Competencies Special Issue Editors: Simon Buckingham Shum & Ruth Crick (University of Technology Sydney) Full call for Special Issue submissions: http://bit.ly/jlac21 A strategic educational response to a world of constant change is to focus explicitly on nurturing the skills and dispositions which equip learners to cope with novel, complex situations, assessed under authentic conditions. Thus, even if we do not know what the future holds, we can be ...
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OLT Beyond the LMS project

Posted on May 12, 2015 by CIC Editor

It seems to be a truism that many of our most talented educators abandon the LMS and use external web applications to create engaged, authentic learning experiences. Unfortunately, this also means that students go ‘off the radar’. The Beyond the LMSproject, funded by the OLT, aims to support such educators (and students) with analytics showing learning-relevant activity on social media sites. The project is led by Kirsty Kitto at QUT. This builds on earlier work by myself conceiving Social Lea...
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Ruth Crick, Professor of Learning Analytics & Educational Leadership

Posted on April 8, 2015 by CIC Editor

Ruth Crick is now Professor of Learning Analytics & Educational Leadership at UTS. In an exciting appointment to the School of Education, in close collaboration with CIC, Ruth will now be spending half of her life here in Sydney, balanced with work based in the UK. The School of Education announcement sums it up very well: "Many of you will already be aware of Ruth’s international reputation in dispositional learning analytics - she is one of the creators of the self-assessment learni...
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Writing analytics and the LAK15 “State of the Field” panel

Posted on March 19, 2015 by simon

Tweet We just concluded an outstandingly run LAK15 conference hosted expertly by Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY. In the closing panel, a few of us shared thoughts on the state of the field. International LA expert panel with @sbuckshum rep Australia @dgasevic UK @hthwaite Canada @stephteasley US pic.twitter.com/lyAHciNjnu — Shane Dawson (@shaned07) March 20, 2015 The replay will join all the other LAK talks on the SoLAR YouTube channel eventually. Meantime, here’re my extended notes+links, a...
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Evaluating Writing Analytics

Posted on March 3, 2015 by CIC Editor

CIC is now initiating a series of pilots in close collaboration with UTS academics across the faculties, and other units (HELPS; Jumbunna; IML) to test the potential of language technologies to provide rapid, formative feedback on draft writing. This builds on the work at The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), initiated by Simon Buckingham Shum, in collaboration with Ágnes Sándor, a linguist in the Parsing & Semantics Group at Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble. ...
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Dispositional Learning Analytics @High School

Posted on February 17, 2015 by CIC Editor

As part of CIC's mission to prototype analytics and learning futures, we are working with the High Schools — who are of course the providers of the next generation of UTS students. In close partnership with Ruth Deakin Crick (CIC Visiting Professor in 2014), we are developing a systemic form of action research building on Ruth's experience in educational research, Simon's work in analytics, and educational improvement science concepts developed by Tony Bryk at the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad...
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