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Publications

Browse/search within each tab all publications/reports by CIC's academics and doctoral researchers, most recent at top. Search across the entire CIC website to find news stories about the authors, related events and projects. (Note: In the computing sciences, educational technology and learning analytics, papers accepted in the premier conferences are double-blind reviewed, full length articles, archived in the digital libraries of professional societies such as ACM and IEEE.) Lee, M., G...
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Academic Team Simon Buckingham Shum Director &Professor of Learning Informatics [CIC News] “Liminal Space... when you have left the tried and true but have not yet been able to replace it with anything else. If you are not trained in how to hold anxiety, how to live with ambiguity, how to entrust and wait, you will run… anything to flee this terrible cloud of unknowing.” - Richard Rohr Ruth Deakin Crick Visiting Professor of Learnin...
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Writing analytics and the LAK15 “State of the Field” panel

Posted on March 19, 2015 by simon

Tweet We just concluded an outstandingly run LAK15 conference hosted expertly by Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY. In the closing panel, a few of us shared thoughts on the state of the field. International LA expert panel with @sbuckshum rep Australia @dgasevic UK @hthwaite Canada @stephteasley US pic.twitter.com/lyAHciNjnu — Shane Dawson (@shaned07) March 20, 2015 The replay will join all the other LAK talks on the SoLAR YouTube channel eventually. Meantime, here’re my extended notes+links, a...
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Evaluating Writing Analytics

Posted on March 3, 2015 by CIC Editor

CIC is now initiating a series of pilots in close collaboration with UTS academics across the faculties, and other units (HELPS; Jumbunna; IML) to test the potential of language technologies to provide rapid, formative feedback on draft writing. This builds on the work at The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), initiated by Simon Buckingham Shum, in collaboration with Ágnes Sándor, a linguist in the Parsing & Semantics Group at Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble. ...
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