May, 2016
Dear reader,
Welcome to the Connected Intelligence Centre (CIC) newsletter.
CIC was launched in August 2014, as an innovation centre with a mission to help UTS faculties and business units benefit from data science.
Our priority is to advance UTS's learning.futures strategy through the use of Learning Analytics (data science in education), a field in which we have recruited world class expertise. We also assist UTS researchers in understanding the potential of analytics for their work, as well as support UTS business units in making sense of their data.
Beyond UTS, we secure external funding to advance our mission in collaboration with our partners.
CIC is distinctive in its development of Human-Centred analytics. We place issues such as learning, ethics and participatory design at the heart of our work, and take a critical stance on the fanfare surrounding big data in society. Our research staff straddle multiple disciplines in order to fuse machine intelligence with the established UTS strength of Creative Intelligence, to which we add Collective Intelligence: as we tell students on our transdisciplinary Master of Data Science & Innovation — “data science is a team sport”.
The highlights below demonstrate how we’re innovating in the teaching and application of analytics across UTS, work which is recognised as leading within Australia, and internationally.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want to talk.
Regards,
Simon Buckingham Shum
Director & Professor of Learning Informatics
