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MDSI students shine (again) in NSW Gov Data Challenge

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Students studying the Master of Data Science & Innovation (MDSI) have once again emerged victorious in the second NSW government’s Data Analytics Centre invitational hackathon. Tackling three rounds of a challenge set by Fire and Rescue NSW to differentiate true fires from false alarms, the winning team enriched the dataset provided by adding weather and Twitter data, and generated additional features such as building type. Excitingly, their work may now influence data policy. A combined t...
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Reflections on 2015

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Tomorrow it's Christmas Eve, and CIC will fall silent as midday strikes! It's a good moment to reflect on a dynamic year. . . If you're seeing this via our newsletter, then welcome to the first of the new updates in which we aggregate from the CIC website the month's activities for you to stay in touch with everything that the CIC team is up to. To kick things off, we have a bumper issue pulling in the last two months' news, plus this end of year retrospective. An innovation lab is only as good...
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Running an internal Data Challenge

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The irony we need to iron out One of the ironies in universities the world over is that academics secure external funding to analyse diverse organisations with their dilemmas, but more rarely tackle their own institutional challenges. Consider computer science, statistics, management, economics: often they are focused on analysing data from other organisations. This is typically due to a mix of funding incentives, professional identity/career development, and organisational politics (it can be...
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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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2016 PhD Scholarships Announced

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The CIC Learning Analytics PhD program has launched, with 3 scholarships available for highly motivated, multidisciplinary-minded candidates to join the team. We'd like to hear from you informally as soon as possible, with the goal of having you here in Sydney for the start of 2016 semester. . .
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Declara social learning pilot kickoff

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We've just spent a stimulating two days with James Stanbridge from Declara, exploring the opportunities for UTS to support different kinds of learning community with social curation tools, as well as next generation learning analytics research possibilities. Here I am with James and CIC's Theresa Anderson, recording this moment for posterity!   Declara provides many of the tools common in social networking and bookmarking, with a recommendation engine that seeks to personalise the user experie...
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Reflecting on reflective writing analytics

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Tweet Computational “assessment” of writing elicits strong reactions from many educators. For sceptics, handing over to a machine the task of feeding back or even grading writing crosses a boundary line marking the limits of AI. It also raises the same fears that any disruptive technology brings, around redefining roles and identities in a profession. Effective writing is not only central to education and the workplace, but a lifelong citizenship competency for engaging in society. Many academ...
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CfP: Learning Analytics for C21 Competencies

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CfP: Learning Analytics for 21st Century Competencies Special Issue Editors: Simon Buckingham Shum & Ruth Crick (University of Technology Sydney) Full call for Special Issue submissions: http://bit.ly/jlac21 A strategic educational response to a world of constant change is to focus explicitly on nurturing the skills and dispositions which equip learners to cope with novel, complex situations, assessed under authentic conditions. Thus, even if we do not know what the future holds, we can be ...
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Writing analytics and the LAK15 “State of the Field” panel

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Tweet We just concluded an outstandingly run LAK15 conference hosted expertly by Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY. In the closing panel, a few of us shared thoughts on the state of the field. International LA expert panel with @sbuckshum rep Australia @dgasevic UK @hthwaite Canada @stephteasley US pic.twitter.com/lyAHciNjnu — Shane Dawson (@shaned07) March 20, 2015 The replay will join all the other LAK talks on the SoLAR YouTube channel eventually. Meantime, here’re my extended notes+links, a...
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