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Tom Carey: Innovation Capability, Epistemic Fluency and Literacy

Innovation Capability, Epistemic Fluency and Literacy: Adventures in Distinctive Excellence for Teaching & Learning Environments We were delighted to welcome Professor Tom Carey to CIC this afternoon, where he hosted a 3 hour briefing and conversation with UTS academics specialising in innovation, creativity and transdisciplinary learning. In addition to his many peer reviewed publications on educational innovation, check out his InsideHigherEd column on topics such as Is the Future of Liber...
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CIC team edits C21 learning analytics journal

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CIC Professors Simon Buckingham Shum and Ruth Deakin Crick have edited a Special Section of the Journal of Learning Analytics, published this week. Simon and Ruth (who is joint with the School of Education & Institute for Sustainable Futures) have curated the world's first collection of researcher and practitioner articles on the challenge of Learning Analytics for 21st Century Competencies. Read their editorial introduction (below) to learn more about why these are so important, and how the...
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A3R: Authentic Assessment Analytics for Reflective Writing

A3R: Authentic Assessment Analytics for Reflective Writing Authentic Assessment Analytics for Reflection (A3R) is an exciting new project that DVC(ES) (Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education and Students Prof. Shirley Alexander) is funding over the coming year, jointly led by the Connected Intelligence Centre (CIC) and Institute for Interactive Media and Learning (IML), as part of the UTS priority to transition towards increasingly authentic assessment practices. Authentic assessment is concerned wit...
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Ecopolicy – a simulation game for students

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CIC have recently submitted a grant application for the use of a simulation game (called Ecopolicy®) in sustainability and management subjects in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (DAB). This project is aimed at developing the pedagogical strategies and exploring the learning analytics requirements using Ecopolicy® to teach about sustainability, complexity and systems thinking as an active learning experience. It will help to develop ‘blended’ learning approaches in undergraduate ...
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Hackathon – NASA Space App 2016

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An MDSI student perspective on attending the NASA Space APP Hackathon By Anthony So What is a Hackathon? A hackathon is an event where the participants collaborate to tackle some problems and challenges set by the organiser. This kind of event is getting more and more popular across the globe. Corporations, governments or NGOs have seen the benefits in organising these competitions. First it is a good opportunity for them to create some buzz around their organisations, secondly they can find tal...
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Multimodal Sequence Mining & Analytics

Learning to collaborate is important. But how does one learn to collaborate face-to-face? What are the actions and strategies to follow for a group of students who start a task? We are interested in analysing aspects of students’ activity when working in digital ecologies enriched with sensors for identifying users, and also at  multi-display settings. This project is seeking out to automatically  distinguish, discover and distil salient common patterns of interaction within groups, by mining t...
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Sharon Oviatt – Enhancing Creative Intelligence with Multimodal Technologies

Sharon Oviatt (Incaa Designs) Time: 11.00 - 12.30am, Tue 8 March 2016 Location: CB08.02.006 In this talk, I will discuss parallel research advances toward developing new digital tools for stimulating and also assessing human cognition, creativity, and learning. During the last decade, multimodal interfaces based on combined new media have eclipsed keyboard-based graphical interfaces as the dominant worldwide computer interface. In addition to supporting mobility, they enable more natural a...
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Partnering with a future-focused school

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CIC's primary audiences for our Learning Analytics work are our UTS academic and other staff colleagues, and our students. However, CIC was also created to advance the work of researchers in other faculties through the use of analytics. Our colleagues in the School of Education are partnering with Turramurra High School (THS), which has been recognised by the NSW Department of Education as a leading school in the state. We are adding additional dimensions to this: through the work of Ruth Cri...
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CIC playing a ViTal role in supporting visual learning

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“Seeing between the lines”: ideation and thinking visually for learning and teaching As part of a 2015 Deputy Vice Chancellor's Learning & Teaching Grant, CIC has been heavily involved in the creation of a learning community exploring ways ideation (processes for generating ideas) and visual techniques can support the design and delivery of teaching material and help students effectively think through and communicate their work. This project builds on the research and teaching expertise of...
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Cooking data with care in MDSI

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“Raw data is both an oxymoron and a bad idea;  to the contrary, data should be cooked with care.” (Bowker, 2005) Inspired by the fantastic opening provided in the public seminar presented by Geof Bowker (University of California at Irvine) about thinking critically and ethically about the intersection of Data Science, Information Infrastructure and Society, MDSI students enrolled in the mid-year intake of the program participated in a ‘serious game’ as part of their Self-tracking Data Project. ...
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