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The role of Automated Feedback in responding to variable student pace of learning | 20 May

About this Event In this session we will talk about responding to individual students’ needs how intelligent tutoring systems can support adaptive learning utilising Canvas quiz functions to provide feedback when students want it how can support instant feedback on draft writing “Automated Feedback” has existed in various forms at UTS for some time, from online quizzes, to adaptive learning platforms, to conditional messaging. In this series we will look at the key categories of aut...
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The role of Automated Feedback in building student belonging in large classes | 13 May

About this Event “Automated Feedback” is not a replacement to existing feedback, but a way to enrich the existing feedback ecosystem. In this session we will discuss how to use automated feedback… as a way to further communicate your personality as a teacher as a means of getting more points of contact with students in the form of Activity-Based Conditional (ABC) messaging in the form of Learning Power “Automated Feedback” has existed in various forms at UTS for some time, from onlin...
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LAK21 Workshop: Engineering Learning Analytics Technology Environments (ELATE): Understanding iteration between data and theory, and design and deployment

Date April 13, 2021 - 4PM to 7 PM PST (according to LAK pre-conference schedule) Abstract Learning analytics (LA) researchers often fail to collect the necessary data to answer research questions due to a lack of understanding of what types of data they need. This workshop aims to advance understanding of the necessities of iterative processes in data collection and analysis to address the issue. The workshop includes panel talks by the organizers, who have experience in data collec...
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Building data and analytics literacy

Posted on December 12, 2020February 7, 2022 by CIC Editor

CIC has created engaging online modules and runs regular workshops to help diverse learners get hands-on with data and analytics. Engaging online modules Building data literacy is now one of the most important qualities in today’s degree programs, and the workplace. CIC has published several engaging, short modules that help learners get hands-on with analysing data, and thinking about the ethical dimensions. These modules, on UTS Open, are being used by the public for free, by UTS students a...
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Summer@UTS – Building your resilience for complexity

A WORKSHOP FOR UTS STUDENTS Coaches: Simon Buckingham Shum & Ruth Deakin Crick This half-day workshop will provide hands-on experience for you to take the CLARA survey and reflect on how you can get better at grappling with complex learning that takes you out of your comfort zone. Learn more about the UTS:CIC research and evaluation program into CLARA. Summer@UTS: Building your resilience for complexity from Simon Buckingham Shum
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ALASI2019: Panel debate – the validity of using student evaluation surveys for performance based funding at Australian universities

Leonie Payne1, Kirsty Kitto1, Michael Pracy1, Jason Lodge2, Abelardo Pardo3 Abstract The Australian Federal Government announced in August 2019 that aspects of the Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) Student Experience and Graduate Outcomes surveys will form two of the four key metrics for performance based funding of Australian Universities from 2020. Given the lack of consensus on the validity and appropriate use of student evaluations of teaching, it is time to explore t...
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PhD Seminar: Gloria Fernandez Nieto- Providing guidance in Multimodal Learning Analytics visual feedback interfaces for Collaborative Classrooms

PhD Candidate: Gloria Milena Fernandez Nieto Abstract: Feedback is a crucial aspect of classroom-based learning. Delivering high-quality feedback can help students to make well-informed decisions by understanding their learning goals, teacher’s pedagogical intentions, and their actual performance. However, providing actionable feedback is challenging, especially in large classes with many students or groups to follow up. One way to provide automated feedback is through learning analytics (LA...
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Building staff resilient agency to cope with disruption

Posted on June 16, 2020 by newseditor

National bushfires. A global pandemic. Global social unrest. The disruption of higher education. And 2020 hasn't even reached half-time. When the only constant is change, we need a distinctive set of personal qualities to adapt and thrive. But how do we talk about those qualities? Can we meaningfully assess them? And what does it look like when leadership values these qualities? A long-standing stream of research has studied the dispositions, or 'habits of mind', that equip us with an openness t...
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Leading Japanese Learning Analytics researchers visit

Posted on September 3, 2019 by CIC Editor

CIC was delighted to host leading researchers from Japan, Hiroaki Ogata (Kyoto University) and Atsushi Shimada (Kyushu University), who are touring Australia to share their work and learn about developments here. We spent the afternoon in a series of presentations and demos. View their abstracts and slides on the event page.
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Decoding Big Data

Posted on June 4, 2018 by CIC Editor

Check out this story from the UTS news room, featuring some of our UTS data scientists, including CIC Director, Simon Buckingham Shum. Key points: Humans have been surrounded by data since the beginning of history, but what’s different today is that the rate at which data is now being created and stored is exponential Experts say a re-imagining of data could see societies move away from one-size-fits-all approaches and towards more tailored solutions for education, finance, sustainab...
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