Congratulations, Dr Antonette Shibani!
I’m delighted to announce that Antonette Shibani has become the first graduate from CIC’s PhD program! She passed with flying colours, and has secured a Lectureship in the UTS Faculty of […]
Writing Analytics
Notes: ‘Digital support for academic writing: A review of technologies and pedagogies’
I came across this review article on writing tools published in 2019, and wanted to make some quick notes to come back to in this post. I’m following the usual […]
Evaluating ML for Pharmacy Student Reflection
UTS will be represented at the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education by CIC research fellow in writing analytics, Ming Liu, who leads a new paper from our ongoing […]
Pharmacy reflective practice: aligning learning design and analytics
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 […]
Building educators’ trust in AI: co-design case study
Building on a previous co-design session, Ming Liu (writing analytics research fellow) and I recently ran a follow-up session with Cherie Lucas (Discipline of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Health). The task was to design the first […]
WReD alert! Towards a Written Reflection Dataset?
Ming Liu and I just posted on our writing analytics blog some thoughts about a new initiative — the tricky challenge of building a corpus of reflective writing to advance the […]
Building a Reflective Writing Corpus for Analytics Research
In this blog post, we introduce a new stream of work in CIC’s Academic Writing Analytics project, as we explore the potential of machine learning to augment our existing infrastructure. […]
Open source release of Academic Writing Analytics
When I arrived at UTS, I spent the first 6 months or so assessing the state of play with respect to student writing. It became clear through consultations across faculties […]
New PostDoc Fellowship & PhD Scholarships in Learning Analytics
It’s been an exciting 3.5 years here at UTS, and CIC is about to move into a new phase, with some team changes, and new openings. It’s always a delight […]
Congratulations Dr Bektik!
Many congratulations to Duygu Bektik (née Simsek) whose PhD is now available! Duygu passed with flying colours — truly a landmark in one’s life Thank you to Rebecca Ferguson, Denise Whitelock and […]