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How do we integrate reflective writing analytics into UTS teaching?

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The Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute (ALASI) is the major forum in Australia for advancing discussion, knowledge and innovation in the domain of learning analytics. CIC Research Fellow Dr. Ming Liu co-chaired the Fifth Writing Analytics Workshop: Linking Reflective Writing Analytics to Learning Design, co-organized with UTS colleagues Sumati Ahuja (UTS Business School) and Rosalie Goldsmith (Academic Language and Learning, IML). This three-hour workshop brought together researchers...
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Learning Analytics & AI: Politics, Pedagogy and Practices

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The concluding issue of the 50th Anniversary volume of the British Journal of Educational Technology has just been published, co-edited by CIC’s Director, Simon Buckingham Shum, along with Prof. Rose Luckin from UCL Knowledge Lab (read their Editorial overview). Kirsty Kitto and Simon Knight also contributed an article, focusing on the ethics of learning analytics systems. 11 contributions from leading research teams in Learning Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence in Education (LA/AIED), pro...
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Can a computer be trained to recognise a reflective pharmacy student?

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CIC researchers Ming Liu and Simon Buckingham Shum have continued their longstanding collaboration with Cherie Lucas (UTS School of Pharmacy) and a new collaborator, Efi Mantzourani (U. Cardiff). The team has already accomplished a world first for UTS — providing instant feedback to students on their reflective writing. Building on their grammar-based approach, they have now reported the first steps towards training their text analysis infrastructure to classify student writing purely by analys...
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CIC @ LAK 2019

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CIC was one of the most visible Learning Analytics centres at this year's international conference. Learn more about our diverse contributions. UTS was again contributing strongly at the annual International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK). This year's LAK was distinctive for CIC, with one of the invited keynotes being delivered by our very own  Shirley Alexander, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education & Students), who told the story of the UTS journey towards ...
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Immediate, personalised feedback on reflective writing

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The start of the new year is a good moment to distill the key ingredients of the 2 year collaboration around writing analytics (automated feedback to students on their reflective writing), that CIC has built with UTS academic Cherie Lucas from our School of Pharmacy. As with other collaborations (such as with Pip Ryan on her students' legal writing), it exemplifies the co-design process that we initiate with academics, in which we iteratively seek to design an automated feedback tool that st...
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HealthSimLAK: Multimodal Learning Analytics meet Patient Manikins

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We are collaborating with the UTS Clinical Simulation team at the Faculty of Health to explore the potential that multimodal learning analytics can bring to generate reflection in Healthcare simulations using patient manikins. Healthcare simulations are hands-on learning experiences aimed at allowing students to practice essential skills that they may need when working with real patients in clinical workplaces. Some clinical classrooms at UTS are equipped with patient manikins that can...
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CIC @ the Australian HCI Conference (OzCHI ’16)

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CIC's Dr. Roberto Martinez-Maldonado attended the 28th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI 2016) in Launceston, Tasmania. The conference theme "Connected Futures" highlighted the importance of connectedness through technology. OzCHI is an annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) which is one of the leading forums for the latest in HCI research and practice in the Asia-Pacific area. The conference brought together an international...
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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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NSW Learning Analytics meetup

The NSW Learning Analytics working group will hold its first meetup of 2016 here at UTS. We warmly invite colleagues from across state to join us on Wed 3rd Feb in the stunning new Frank Gehry-designed Chau Chak Wing building in the Level 3 collaborative lecture theatre (CB08.03.005). This is not a formal conference, but the chance to connect with peers to discuss work-in-progress. To register (free!) please email Georgia.Markakis@uts.edu.au with [NSWLAWG] in the subject line to assist, and an...
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Academic Writing Analytics (AWA) Project

What’s the challenge? Making your thinking visible in writing is a critical competence. The ability to communicate and debate ideas coherently and critically is a core graduate attribute. In many disciplines, writing provides a significant window into the mind of the student, evidencing mastery of the curriculum and the ability to reflect on one’s own learning. Arguably, in the humanities and social sciences, writing is the primary source of evidence. Moreover, as dialogue and debate move fro...
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