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OnTask: Scalable, Personalised Feedback to Students

Scaling the Provision of Personalised Learning Support Actions to Large Student Cohorts Mission: to improve the quality of student learning in large cohorts by scaling the deployment of "Personal Learning Support Actions (PLSAs)"... [Project website] Aim This project has two aims. The first is to improve the quality of student learning in large cohorts by scaling the deployment of "Personal Learning Support Actions (PLSAs)" within Australian HE institutions. We define PLSAs as any i...
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ALASI 2022: CIC hosts the 2022 Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute

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After a 2-year hiatus, CIC had the pleasure of hosting the annual Australian chapter of the Learning Analytics Summer Institute as an in-person event over 8 and 9 December at UTS. This year’s event was organised by leaders in the learning analytics field from different Australian Universities including UTS, as well as a student representative. Considering how the pandemic had prevented the community – especially PhD students – from gathering together in person, the event was planned to be highl...
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Using Analytics to Personalise Feedback at Scale: help us choose the best tool | 8 February

Personalised message and feedback platforms have existed in UTS for a few years now – examples of these are OnTask and Canvas messaging. At the same time, a wide range of similar tools have become mature, making them viable candidates for facilitating academics to tailor communications and feedback. These tools offer solutions to support students’ learning at scale, and help them foster a sense of belonging at UTS. However, as with all socio-technical tools, we need input from key stakeholders s...
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Jurgen Schulte joins as a CIC Adjunct Fellow

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We extend a warm welcome to Jurgen Schulte, who has been appointed as a CIC Adjunct Fellow! Jurgen Schulte recently retired from UTS after a fantastic career innovating in his teaching in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. He was in fact pioneering “Learning Analytics” in the early 2000s, before the term gained currency, running his own server and mail-merge software to personalise email feedback to his hundreds of students based on aggregated data from their engagement across mu...
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Scaling personalised feedback to students

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Students need timely and personalised feedback to know how to improve, as well as to build a sense of belonging that fosters motivation. But how is this possible with large enrolment numbers and when all, or a significant amount, of learning is online? Automated Feedback broadly refers to software’s ability to process data about student activity and convert this into feedback messages. There are many approaches to this, involving both learning analytics, and for more advanced analysis of the da...
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Welcome Dr Lisa-Angelique Lim, our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow!

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We are delighted to announce that Dr Lisa-Angelique Lim has joined CIC as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Welcome! I completed my PhD in education with a focus on learning analytics in early 2021, at the University of South Australia. My dissertation, entitled Examining the impact of feedback based on learning analytics from the perspective of self-regulated learning, explored how students made sense of automated feedback personalised to their own learning data. My dissertation also explored th...
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Using Student Data to Provide Semi-Auto-mated, Personalised Feedback: A Hands-on Tutorial

We know how important quality feedback is to learning, but we also know how time consuming this can be to provide. Moreover, while the quality and quantity of data traces generated from student activity are growing at an astonishing pace, this is useless if educators don’t have the capacity to make sense of this, and take appropriate, timely action to support students. How do we navigate this tension? This tutorial introduces a learning analytics tool called OnTask, which provides some automat...
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PLSA UX/LX Workshop

https://youtu.be/QNEhB2do7V4 PLSA UX/LX Workshop (CIC Ideation Studio) This workshop brings together people from multiple universities to share what we know about the design of good User Experience and Learner Experience with systems like OnTask, that enable personalised student feedback at scale, by providing Personalised Learning Support Actions (PLSAs). Through a combination of briefings and hands-on exercises, we will share what we know about the UX/LX dimensions of such tools, and map ke...
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The Anna Karenina principle: One university’s approach to the adoption of learning analytics

  Presenter: Dr. Irina Elgort (Presenter), Steven Warburton & Derek White Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Register on Eventbrite Abstract: Many institutions are making significant investments to build their learning analytics capability yet creating a successful platform for large-sale adoption of learning analytics (LA) is not simple. Building on existing knowledge about LA, we outline our attempt to resolve tensions early in the adoption process and thus, hopefull...
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ALASI2019: Learning Analytics Growing Pains – Sociotechnical Infrastructure Changes as LA Tools Mature

Get your ticket here. Simon Buckingham Shum1, Antonette Shibani2 Abstract As Learning Analytics tools mature, there are often ‘growing pains’ in how the infrastructure adapts to the social and technical requirements of scaling up. Across institutions in Australia, there is increasing work being done in this transitional space, including moving from prototypes to products, institutional adoption of LA, engaging stakeholders, organisational leadership, long term impact, and invisible work i...
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