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Yuveena Gopalan's doctoral research is studying how successful researchers learnt their craft. The first major publication from her PhD has just come out, distilling the insights from interviews into a conceptual framework. Strange as it may seem, relatively little is known about how academic researchers learn. Yes there are training courses to build specific skills, but all the evidence from workplace learning studies shows that this is not how professionals in other sectors learn. Co-supervis...
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The Learning Analytics field is now a teenager, having launched in 2011. With the explosive rise of GenAI, this seemed a good moment for the community to reflect on where we need to go. CIC's Kirsty Kitto co-chaired a whole day workshop to wrangle this... Assoc. Prof. Kirsty Kitto co-led a stimulating international workshop entitled, What are the Grand Challenges of Learning Analytics? as part of the International Conference on Learning Analytics. The mission: In line with the conference t...
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Our research stream into Belonging Analytics has been putting a new platform through its paces in a pilot study... We're delighted to share a new development in our Belonging Analytics research program, after piloting the SenseMaker® platform. We design a SenseMaker framework grounded in theories of belonging, to identify key dimensions, indicators, and factors of belonging. Story prompts invite students to share a story or an experience that made them feel that they belong or do not be...
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Could we develop trustworthy "Belonging Analytics" from AI analysis of students' reflective writing? There's growing interest in the use of large language models (LLMs) like GPT, Gemini and Claude to assist with qualitative data analysis. In this work, we develop and evaluate a methodology to prompt GPT to perform theory-based deductive coding of student reflective writing. CIC PhD candidate Sriram Ramanathan is focused on what learning analytics can tell us about university students' se...
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Doctoral Consortia can be transformational experiences for PhD candidates. But what makes them work well, and how do you evaluate their impact? CIC's team have been involved for over a decade in both leading and participating in the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge. Here's our analysis of how it functions as induction into the community of practice — joint work by CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum and Yuveena Gopalan, working with Rebecca Fer...
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The Student Voices on AI in HE project is a multi-university collaboration to give university students a voice in how they are making sense of the generative AI revolution. CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum and Lisa Lim have been working with other UTS colleagues (Jan McLean, Nicole Pepperell, Antonette Shibani) to design and run a survey with >8000 students, and focus groups with 79 students. The project's results are gradually being released as we crunch the huge amounts of quantitative an...
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