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Learning Journeys Workshops

Complex problem solving, critical thinking and creativity are the three most important capabilities for thriving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.  These are not traditionally developed through legacy learning and development systems (human or digital) because they require real-world, purposeful problems and contexts, the ability to work across silos, new measurement models and courageous leadership. Learning design for teachers is about creating the conditions where students can take respons...
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CIC @ London Festival of Learning 2018

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The London Festival of Learning was a unique convergence in June of three major international conferences in learning and technology: International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Artficial Intelligence in Education and Learning@Scale. CIC's Director Simon Buckingham Shum presented a keynote address at ICLS, a bi-annual conference that gathers minds from all aspects of the learning sciences, including empirical, conceptual, theoretical, design-based, practitioner and policy perspectives....
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Can imperfect AI improve student learning?

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The narrative about Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often that it will improve society by helping to remove human error from complex systems beyond our ken. There is no doubt that in some cases this is true: self-driving cars will help to decrease traffic accidents; google translate has made it surprisingly easy to read texts from other languages; and AI driven image recognition already far surpasses humans when it comes to the diagnosis of cancer. All of these technologies rely upon the assumpt...
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Seminar: Elle Yuan Wang – ASU EdPlus Action Lab

Exploring Non-Cognitive Reasons behind Success after Failure The availability of large-scale online courses enabled assessment of academic performances at scale. Equally important is the opportunity to investigate the state of non-cognitive or soft skills of online learners to inform design of interventions to improve learning outcomes. The present analysis looked learners who successfully passed the course, either passed at their first attempts or passed after failed attempts, and compared how ...
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Arguments, Evidence and Intuition

Arguments, Evidence and Intuition (AEI) Arguments, Evidence and Intuition is an undergraduate elective running as a 6 credit point elective (approximately 120 students per session) and 8 credit point elective (FASS: approximately 50 students per session). In line with the UTS priority to build critical, quantitative literacy in all students and staff, AEI provides an introduction to key concepts, to help learners see the relevance to their own interests: This subject promotes development of nume...
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Job: 4 yr PostDoc: Writing Analytics

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CIC Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Writing Analytics (IRC104013) Job Summary [PDF version] [Detailed Person Specification PDF] The University of Technology Sydney has a bold vision to be a world-leading university of technology. We are a dynamic and innovative university in central Sydney, consistently ranked the top young university in Australia. The UTS Connected Intelligence Centre (CIC) is an innovation centre whose mission is to build the university’s capacity to gain insights from analyti...
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David Williamson Shaffer: Quantitative Ethnography (Workshop)

Learning in the 21st century means thinking in complex and collaborative ways that are situated in a real world context. This workshop introduced participants to Quantitative Ethnography, a set of tools for modelling complex thinking. A central premise of Quantitative Ethnography is that learning is a process of enculturation in which students learn to make relevant connections between skills, concepts, and practices in a domain. Quantitative Ethnography models the structure of these connections...
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Professor David Williamson Shaffer: Virtual Internships (Lecture)

Virtual Internships have the potential to revolutionise education. Imagine classes that have thousands of students - like MOOCs -  but where students learn more than just how to take good notes in a lecture and pass a traditional test. Virtual internships are Massively Adaptive Complex Realistic Online Simulations with Interactive Mentoring. They are web-based simulations that help students learn to think like scientists, scholars, artists, and workers. In a virtual internship, students work i...
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Fighting “fake news” with the Strawman tool

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Collaborators from the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre, School of Education and School of Communication have submitted a fascinating research grant proposal to investigate the use of an educational tool to improve the media literacy of teenagers. The Trump-inspired debate about ‘fake news’ has raised concerns about the media literacy of early high school age children (years 7, 8 & 9). Fuelled by concerns that young adults are being exposed to and are often the disseminators of ‘fake new...
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Simon Knight attends CRADLE Symposium on Digital Assessment Technologies

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On October 16-17, CIC academic Simon Knight attended Deakin University’s “Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning” (CRADLE) International Symposium entitled Re-imagining assessment in a digital world. The Open Forum event featured a panel of domestic and international experts working in the fields of learning science and analytics. Participants reflected on how technology is transforming teaching and learning in higher education. Whilst there are many exciting possibilities in...
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