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Exploring the Potential of LLMs for Inductive & Deductive Coding

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The CIC team recently gave an overview of our recent LLM work to our Qualitative Data Analysis colleagues, as part of the Aspire QDA series Simon Buckingham Shum (Connected Intelligence Centre), Antonette Shibani (TD School), Lisa-Angelique Lim (Connected Intelligence Centre) & Ram Ramanathan (Connected Intelligence Centre). This is work from collaborations with Aneesha Bakharia, Trish McCluskey & Nazanin Reza zadeh mottaghi https://youtu.be/ANlEIqgkocY?si=hB_fghL8YLYNI7K9 [Slides...
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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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Automated feedback for Pharmacy students’ reflective writing: new evidence

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New evidence of students' responses to receiving automated formative feedback on their reflective writing is now available. In a forthcoming paper from CIC's long-term collaboration with Cherie Lucas (School of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Health), the team reports that students who engaged with CIC's AcaWriter tool reported a range of benefits. Full-size colour figures not in the paper are also provided below. Cherie Lucas, Simon Buckingham Shum, Ming Liu & Mary Bebawy (In Press). Imple...
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Immediate, personalised feedback on reflective writing

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The start of the new year is a good moment to distill the key ingredients of the 2 year collaboration around writing analytics (automated feedback to students on their reflective writing), that CIC has built with UTS academic Cherie Lucas from our School of Pharmacy. As with other collaborations (such as with Pip Ryan on her students' legal writing), it exemplifies the co-design process that we initiate with academics, in which we iteratively seek to design an automated feedback tool that st...
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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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