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Without a doubt, new technologies offer exciting opportunities to supercharge personalised feedback at scale. But beyond the hype, what are critical considerations for ensuring feedback effectiveness? This year, the International Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference (LAK26) was held in beautiful Bergen, Norway, where CIC's Lisa-Angelique Lim, together with an international group of feedback experts — Rafael Ferreira Mello, Yi-Shan Tsai, and Joshua Weidlich — co-led the 4th Personalising ...
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We're delighted to announce that Antonette Shibani has become the first graduate from CIC's PhD program! She passed with flying colours, and has secured a Lectureship in the UTS Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation. Well done Shibani – here's the link to the thesis, and check out her blog to learn more! Augmenting pedagogic writing practice with contextualizable learning analytics https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/136846 ABSTRACT: Academic writing is a key skill that contributes t...
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The UTS 2027 strategy has a priority to develop a more personalised learning experience, and CIC is leading the way in developing and validating how analytics-powered tools advance this. In March, CIC hosted a workshop bringing together colleagues from across UTS and other institutions, to think deeply about the user experience of such systems. Check out the introductory video on one such system, OnTask, and replay the keynote address about ECoach from Holly Derry to see how University of Michig...
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Simon Buckingham Shum and Roberto Martinez-Maldonado from CIC, with long-standing colleague Rebecca Ferguson (UK Open University), have just edited Human-Centred Learning Analytics as a special issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics. For the first time, this brings together exemplars of how the rich expertise that now exists in human-centred design communities can be brought to bear in learning analytics, so that diverse stakeholders can be given a voice to shape the design of the tools they...
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Last year CIC had the pleasure of welcoming on board not one but two visiting PhD students from China. We said goodbye to Xizhe earlier in May then too soon after, Zhenzhen early June. Over six months, Zhenzhen made significant contributions in analysing textual features  of reflective writing, design feedback and created an online reflective writing tutorial. CIC would like to thank Zhenzhen for her hard work and hopes that she gained many positive learning experiences during her time here. ...
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Last week we said goodbye to Xizhe Wang, our visiting PhD student from South China Normal University. During his time with us, Xizhe has contributed to advancing our writing analytics research and become a valuable member of the CIC Team. He played a major role in the development of an online writing tutorial and text annotation tool for machine learning. It has been a pleasure to have Xizhe join CIC over the past 6 months. It is always sad to say goodbye, but we are confident that he will go f...
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Gloria Fernandez Nieto Gloria, welcome to CIC! Can you tell us a bit about yourself – where did you grow up, and how did you get interested in computing? Hi, my name is Gloria Milena Fernandez Nieto I am from Bogotá, Colombia. When I was at middle school I emphasize my training in Science and Maths, since then I identify the variety of fields in science chemistry, biology, physics and maths. Because of that, I decided to study computer science at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Ca...
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