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What types of writing do professionals engage in? What professional practices of writing should students entering those professions encounter? How can we support development of appropriate professional writing skills?  These […]

  “Should I worry about this?” I’m currently working on a corpus of student essays. We want to run various analyses on these essays, but for that to work we […]

One of the things I’m thinking about at the moment is how we analyse student writing and present those analyses as feedback. In the context of our work on rhetorical […]

The main event we’re working towards is a full day workshop at the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, Edinburgh, next April. Learn more about Critical Perspectives on Writing […]

By Milos Jakubicek, acting on behalf of Lexical Computing (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons A blog to keep track of essay/student writing corpora I’ve encountered which […]

One of the things I’m interested in is how to use assessment (and especially peer and self assessment) as a learning activity. A method I used as a teacher, and […]

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY CONNECTED INTELLIGENCE CENTRE 3 LEARNING ANALYTICS PHD SCHOLARSHIPS We are delighted to announce the launch of CIC’s doctoral program in Learning Analytics, offering three UTS Scholarships […]

Tom Morris: Citation Needed https://www.flickr.com/photos/35034350249@N01/16350846052 I recently attended CIKM in Melbourne, and heard/followed up on a couple of ideas around an idea on ‘assertion identification’ – that is, the spotting […]