Congratulations Dr Carlos Prieto-Alvarez! Learning Analytics Co-Design PhD

Carlos Prieto-Alvarez was one of the first three doctoral candidates accepted to CIC’s new Learning Analytics PhD Program  in 2016.  

So very well done Carlos, as today sees the publication of your thesis, one of the first PhDs in Learning Analytics devoted to the contributions of human-centred design methods (specifically, co-design) investigating how to give non-technical stakeholders, such as educators and students, a voice in shaping Learning Analytics. Our thanks to supervisors Simon Buckingham Shum and Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, and not forgetting Theresa Anderson for supervising over the first year or so.  

Prieto-Alvarez, C.G. (2020), Engaging Stakeholders in the Learning Analytics Design Process. Doctoral Dissertation, Connected Intelligence Centre, University of Technology Sydney, AUS. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/142525 

We wish him the very best as he takes up a Learning Designer position at University of Sydney. The abstract and full dissertation are below, read the CIC news stories over the years from his work, and replay his final year thesis presentation: 

See Carlos’ ResearchGate site for all his work, but here are two key ones: 

• Prieto-Alvarez, C.G., Martinez-Maldonado, R. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2020). LA-DECK: A Card-Based Learning Analytics Co-Design Tool. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK2020),Frankfurt, Germany, March 2020, ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3375462.3375476 
• Prieto-Alvarez, C.G., Martinez-Maldonado, R. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2018). Mapping Learner-Data Journeys: Evolution of a Visual Co-design Tool. Proceedings of the 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI ’18),Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2018, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 205–214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3292147.3292168