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24/7 Instant Feedback on Writing: integrating AcaWriter into your teaching | 16 December

What difference could instant feedback on draft writing make to your students? Over the last 5 years the Connected Intelligence Centre has been developing and piloting an automated feedback tool for academic writing (AcaWriter), working closely with academics across several faculties. The research portal documents how educators and students engage with this kind of AI, and what we’ve learnt about integrating it into teaching and assessment. In May, AcaWriter was launched to all students along wi...
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EdTech Ethics Deliberative Democracy (2021)

Photo by Maxime VALCARCE on Unsplash Sept 2021 update: There has been huge interest in this project, which is very encouraging, but applications are now closed. However, If you are not selected in the first round, you may still get a place if others decline their invitations. Members of the UTS community can express interest in future activities in the Keep Me Posted form. Jan 2022 update: EdTech Ethics Report on the process and outcomes of the consultation published below. June 202...
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CIC@Pharmacy Life Long Learning 2021

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CIC's long term work with Cherie Lucas (School of Pharmacy) was the focus of a workshop last week at the 13th International Conference on Life Long Learning in Pharmacy, joint with Efi Mantzourani (Cardiff U.) sharing what we have been learning about the effective use of AcaWriter's automated feedback to support reflective writing. Full details below, including the slides. Lucas, C., Buckingham Shum, S. & Mantzourani, E. (2021). The Art of Reflection: Provisions and Companions in our Profes...
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CIC@LAK 2021: International Learning Analytics Conference

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The International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge next week is the premier gathering in the field, with double-blind peer review of full papers, and the proceedings archived in the ACM Digital Library, the leading repository for peer reviewed research in the computing sciences. As usual, CIC will be very active this year, contributing to diverse events. Here’s your one-stop-shop to track down the team, who will welcome a chat with you about their work!... The pre-conference ...
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Automated feedback for Pharmacy students’ reflective writing: new evidence

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New evidence of students' responses to receiving automated formative feedback on their reflective writing is now available. In a forthcoming paper from CIC's long-term collaboration with Cherie Lucas (School of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Health), the team reports that students who engaged with CIC's AcaWriter tool reported a range of benefits. Full-size colour figures not in the paper are also provided below. Cherie Lucas, Simon Buckingham Shum, Ming Liu & Mary Bebawy (In Press). Imple...
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24/7 Instant Feedback on Writing: Integrating AcaWriter into your Teaching | 18 Mar

View the Slideshow: About this Event What difference could instant feedback on draft writing make to your students? Over the last 5 years the Connected Intelligence Centre has been developing and piloting an automated feedback tool for academic writing (AcaWriter), working closely with academics across several faculties. The research portal documents how educators and students engage with this kind of AI, and what we’ve learnt about integrating it into teaching and assessment. In May, AcaWr...
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LAK21: First international workshop on human-centred learning analytics

Date April 12, 2021 - 4 PM TO 7 PM PST (according to LAK pre-conference schedule) Abstract This workshop seeks to build on the momentum from recent years within the LAK community, around the contributions that Human_Centred Design theory and practice should make to Learning Analytics system conception, design, implementation and evaluation. Little work has been done in proposing the steps that other researchers or designers can use as a guidance to structure participatory sessions to...
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NEXUS blog: serving fresh, digestible insights for designing effective learning analytics

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With the explosion in Learning Analytics as a research field and commercial market, it can be hard to find the gems, especially for time-poor educators and analytics designers. Nexus is a new blog, launched by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), conceived and co-edited by CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum, with Melanie Peffer from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Nexus is, as the name suggests, a meeting place to connect. Especially for time-poor educators and analytics designe...
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Visualization to support researchers’ professional learning

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CIC has been working closely with UTS Research, to help develop the roadmap and requirements for future systems to support researcher capability development. “Learning” isn’t just what students do in degrees, it’s now a lifelong process, certainly for professionals, and increasingly for citizens simply to stay up to date with the pace of societal change. A key group of working professionals at any university is, of course, academic researchers, who have their own career trajectories and choices...
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Analytics for face-to-face learning

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Despite the online revolution, many forms of learning require collocated, embodied expertise. CIC is at the forefront of techniques to provide automated feedback on collocated teamwork. While the pandemic has driven a lot of teaching online, certain forms of learning are impossible to replicate virtually. Hopefully, as we gradually return to campus, students and teachers will once again enjoy the unique energy and experience of being together, working as a team, and using our bodies as well as ...
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