Slides from my contribution to the panel convened by Jeremy Roschelle at the International Society for the Learning Sciences: Engaging Learning Scientists in Policy Challenges: AI and the Future of Learning
Sankey, M. 2023. Embracing AI for student and staff productivity. THETA 2023 Making Waves. Brisbane Convention Centre. Brisbane. 16-19 April.
Abstract: ChatGPT, and more broadly AI Transformers, has put the cat among the pigeons over recent months. Institutions are looking at different ways to provide the best possible advice to our staff and students. There is now consistent agreement, there can potentially be very positive outcomes for both students and staff, but we first need to understand this as a community. The theme of the ACODE 88 Meeting 2 March 2023 was ‘Embracing AI for student and staff productivity’. As this workshop we had some 200 participants; Director of TEL, Managers and Educational Designers, all bringing perspectives from their own institutions, to benchmark and understand were we stand on this complex, but exciting issue. As an output from this workshop, ACODE have developed a White paper, to help provide the sector with a way forward, one developed together.
MIT ACSC is one of the Best Colleges for MSc Computer Science in India. It offers an excellent ambiance for academics and research and a vibrant environment.
To know more details you can visit here: https://mitacsc.ac.in/blog/blogdetail.php?best-colleges-for-msc-computer-science-in-india
Lightning talks: teaching and learning excellence in a digital ageJisc
Supporting academics to flip the classroom
Speaker: Fiona McCloy, instructional design consultant, Ulster University.
This session provides an overview of a training initiative developed at Ulster University to support academics to flip the classroom. It helps practitioners plan the learning design and activities; overcome challenges; share ideas and experiences; and learn about possible educational technologies to enable it.
3D modelling in teaching and learning
Speakers: Matthew Nicholls, associate professor, University of Reading
Bunny Waring, undergraduate student, University of Reading
Dr Matthew Nicholls, a classicist at the University of Reading, outlines some of the benefits of 3D digital modelling for education. He will showcase his work reconstructing ancient Rome, and teaching students to do the same, and suggest some tools and resources for those interested in having a go themselves.
Personalised learning: are you ready?
Speakers:
Ann Tilbury, academic skills manager, University of the Highlands and Islands
Scott Connor, educational development leader, University of the Highlands and Islands
Are you ready for personalised learning? This session will introduce the AToM platform highlighting key functionality and outputs. Potential impact and issues relating to its use will be explored. Live delegate feedback will be shared during the session using an online virtual bulletin board accessed via a QR code /URL.
Engineering education: Future skills, standards and mobilityrichardmanton
Conference held at Engineers Ireland in Dublin, 30th October 2019. This conference examined Irish engineering education in an international context, including skills to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and to succeed in a digital world. International and national speakers addressed global challenges, future engineering skills, academic standards and graduate mobility. Attendees also shared ideas on engineering education and Engineers Ireland’s accreditation process.
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May 27 ~ 28, 2023, Vancouver, Canada
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Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by May 06, 2023 (Final Call). Selected papers from ICITE 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following journals
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4 th International Conference on Education and Integrating Technology (EDTECH...IJITE
4
th International Conference on Education and Integrating Technology (EDTECH
2023) is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of
instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction.
It also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs
more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
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Call for Research Papers!!!
Free – Extended Paper will be published as free of cost.
11th International Conference on Information Technology in Education (ICITE 2023)
May 27 ~ 28, 2023, Vancouver, Canada
https://acsit2023.org/icite/index
Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by April 22, 2023. Selected papers from ICITE 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following journals
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
International Journal of Education (IJE)
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Sankey, M. 2023. Embracing AI for student and staff productivity. THETA 2023 Making Waves. Brisbane Convention Centre. Brisbane. 16-19 April.
Abstract: ChatGPT, and more broadly AI Transformers, has put the cat among the pigeons over recent months. Institutions are looking at different ways to provide the best possible advice to our staff and students. There is now consistent agreement, there can potentially be very positive outcomes for both students and staff, but we first need to understand this as a community. The theme of the ACODE 88 Meeting 2 March 2023 was ‘Embracing AI for student and staff productivity’. As this workshop we had some 200 participants; Director of TEL, Managers and Educational Designers, all bringing perspectives from their own institutions, to benchmark and understand were we stand on this complex, but exciting issue. As an output from this workshop, ACODE have developed a White paper, to help provide the sector with a way forward, one developed together.
MIT ACSC is one of the Best Colleges for MSc Computer Science in India. It offers an excellent ambiance for academics and research and a vibrant environment.
To know more details you can visit here: https://mitacsc.ac.in/blog/blogdetail.php?best-colleges-for-msc-computer-science-in-india
Lightning talks: teaching and learning excellence in a digital ageJisc
Supporting academics to flip the classroom
Speaker: Fiona McCloy, instructional design consultant, Ulster University.
This session provides an overview of a training initiative developed at Ulster University to support academics to flip the classroom. It helps practitioners plan the learning design and activities; overcome challenges; share ideas and experiences; and learn about possible educational technologies to enable it.
3D modelling in teaching and learning
Speakers: Matthew Nicholls, associate professor, University of Reading
Bunny Waring, undergraduate student, University of Reading
Dr Matthew Nicholls, a classicist at the University of Reading, outlines some of the benefits of 3D digital modelling for education. He will showcase his work reconstructing ancient Rome, and teaching students to do the same, and suggest some tools and resources for those interested in having a go themselves.
Personalised learning: are you ready?
Speakers:
Ann Tilbury, academic skills manager, University of the Highlands and Islands
Scott Connor, educational development leader, University of the Highlands and Islands
Are you ready for personalised learning? This session will introduce the AToM platform highlighting key functionality and outputs. Potential impact and issues relating to its use will be explored. Live delegate feedback will be shared during the session using an online virtual bulletin board accessed via a QR code /URL.
Engineering education: Future skills, standards and mobilityrichardmanton
Conference held at Engineers Ireland in Dublin, 30th October 2019. This conference examined Irish engineering education in an international context, including skills to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and to succeed in a digital world. International and national speakers addressed global challenges, future engineering skills, academic standards and graduate mobility. Attendees also shared ideas on engineering education and Engineers Ireland’s accreditation process.
11th International Conference on Information Technology in Education (ICITE 2...ijma
Call for Research Papers!!!
Free – Extended Paper will be published as free of cost.
11th International Conference on Information Technology in Education (ICITE 2023)
May 27 ~ 28, 2023, Vancouver, Canada
https://acsit2023.org/icite/index
Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by May 06, 2023 (Final Call). Selected papers from ICITE 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following journals
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
International Journal of Education (IJE)
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4 th International Conference on Education and Integrating Technology (EDTECH...IJITE
4
th International Conference on Education and Integrating Technology (EDTECH
2023) is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of
instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction.
It also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs
more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
11th International Conference on Information Technology in Education (ICITE 2...ijma
Call for Research Papers!!!
Free – Extended Paper will be published as free of cost.
11th International Conference on Information Technology in Education (ICITE 2023)
May 27 ~ 28, 2023, Vancouver, Canada
https://acsit2023.org/icite/index
Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by April 22, 2023. Selected papers from ICITE 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following journals
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
International Journal of Education (IJE)
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4th International Conference on Education and Integrating Technology (EDTECH ...IJITE
4th International Conference on Education and Integrating Technology (EDTECH 2023) is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. It also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
A pathbreaking program that offers a perfect blend of experiential and theoretical studies to build a strong base in Engineering fundamentals and to create a well-rounded learning environment through academic collaborations with industry leaders.
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8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023) will provide an excellent
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theoretical results which make a fundamental contribution for the development of
Educational research. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry to focus on Educational advancements and
establishing new collaborations in these areas. Original research papers, state-of-the-art
reviews are invited for publication in all areas of Education.
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8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023) will provide an excellent
international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and
applications impacts and challenges of education. The conference documents practical and
theoretical results which make a fundamental contribution for the development of
Educational research. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry to focus on Educational advancements and
establishing new collaborations in these areas. Original research papers, state-of-the-art
reviews are invited for publication in all areas of Education
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)IJITE
This journal is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. This forum also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
Open Badges for Distributed Assessment Ilona Buchem
Presentation delivered at the EC-TEL 2016 workshop on formative assessment as part of research and dissemination activities in the and Open Badge Network Erasmus+ project: http://www.openbadgenetwork.com/
Christo Ananth, Advisory Committee Member, “International Conference On Data ...Christo Ananth
Christo Ananth, Advisory Committee Member, “International Conference On Data Science and Analytics (ICDSA’17)”, Department of Computer Science, Rathinam College of Arts and Science (Autonomous), Coimbatore-641 021, India, 23rd September 2017.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)IJITE
This journal is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. This forum also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
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Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by June 24, 2023(Final Call).
Selected papers from EDU 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
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Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by May 20, 2023.
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International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
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Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by May 13, 2023.
Selected papers from EDU 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
International Journal of Education (IJE)
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8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)ijscai
8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023) will provide an excellent
international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and
applications impacts and challenges of education. The conference documents practical and
theoretical results which make a fundamental contribution for the development of
Educational research. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry to focus on Educational advancements and
establishing new collaborations in these areas. Original research papers, state-of-the-art
reviews are invited for publication in all areas of Education.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)IJITE
This journal is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. This forum also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)IJITE
This journal is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. This forum also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)ijma
#educationfordevelopment #e-learning #diversityineducation #virtualeducation #onlineeducation #highereducation
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Free – Extended Paper will be published as free of cost.
8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)
July 15-16, 2023, Virtual Conference
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Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by June 10, 2023.
Selected papers from EDU 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
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The Generative AI System Shock, and some thoughts on Collective Intelligence ...Simon Buckingham Shum
Keynote Address: Team-based Learning Collaborative Asia Pacific Community (TBLC-APC) Symposium (“Impact of emerging technologies on learning strategies”) 8-9 February 2024, Sydney https://tbl.sydney.edu.au
4th International Conference on Education and Integrating Technology (EDTECH ...IJITE
4th International Conference on Education and Integrating Technology (EDTECH 2023) is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. It also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
A pathbreaking program that offers a perfect blend of experiential and theoretical studies to build a strong base in Engineering fundamentals and to create a well-rounded learning environment through academic collaborations with industry leaders.
8 th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)ijma
8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023) will provide an excellent
international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and
applications impacts and challenges of education. The conference documents practical and
theoretical results which make a fundamental contribution for the development of
Educational research. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry to focus on Educational advancements and
establishing new collaborations in these areas. Original research papers, state-of-the-art
reviews are invited for publication in all areas of Education.
8 th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)ieijjournal
8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023) will provide an excellent
international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and
applications impacts and challenges of education. The conference documents practical and
theoretical results which make a fundamental contribution for the development of
Educational research. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry to focus on Educational advancements and
establishing new collaborations in these areas. Original research papers, state-of-the-art
reviews are invited for publication in all areas of Education
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)IJITE
This journal is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. This forum also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
Open Badges for Distributed Assessment Ilona Buchem
Presentation delivered at the EC-TEL 2016 workshop on formative assessment as part of research and dissemination activities in the and Open Badge Network Erasmus+ project: http://www.openbadgenetwork.com/
Christo Ananth, Advisory Committee Member, “International Conference On Data ...Christo Ananth
Christo Ananth, Advisory Committee Member, “International Conference On Data Science and Analytics (ICDSA’17)”, Department of Computer Science, Rathinam College of Arts and Science (Autonomous), Coimbatore-641 021, India, 23rd September 2017.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)IJITE
This journal is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. This forum also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)ijma
#educationfordevelopment #e-learning #diversityineducation #virtualeducation #onlineeducation #highereducation
Call for papers...!!!
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8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)
July 15-16, 2023, Virtual Conference
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Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by June 24, 2023(Final Call).
Selected papers from EDU 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
International Journal of Education (IJE)
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8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)
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Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by May 20, 2023.
Selected papers from EDU 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
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July 15-16, 2023, Virtual Conference
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Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by May 13, 2023.
Selected papers from EDU 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
International Journal of Education (IJE)
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8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)ijscai
8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023) will provide an excellent
international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and
applications impacts and challenges of education. The conference documents practical and
theoretical results which make a fundamental contribution for the development of
Educational research. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry to focus on Educational advancements and
establishing new collaborations in these areas. Original research papers, state-of-the-art
reviews are invited for publication in all areas of Education.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)IJITE
This journal is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. This forum also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)IJITE
This journal is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. This forum also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.
8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)ijma
#educationfordevelopment #e-learning #diversityineducation #virtualeducation #onlineeducation #highereducation
Call for papers...!!!
Free – Extended Paper will be published as free of cost.
8th International Conference on Education (EDU 2023)
July 15-16, 2023, Virtual Conference
https://edu2023.org/
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by June 10, 2023.
Selected papers from EDU 2023, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal.
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
International Journal of Education (IJE)
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edu@edu2023.org (or) edu.conf@yahoo.com
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The Generative AI System Shock, and some thoughts on Collective Intelligence ...Simon Buckingham Shum
Keynote Address: Team-based Learning Collaborative Asia Pacific Community (TBLC-APC) Symposium (“Impact of emerging technologies on learning strategies”) 8-9 February 2024, Sydney https://tbl.sydney.edu.au
Deliberative Democracy as a strategy for co-designing university ethics aro...Simon Buckingham Shum
Buckingham Shum, S. (2021). Deliberative Democracy as a strategy for co-designing university ethics around analytics and AI in education. AARE2021: Australian Association for Research in Education, 28 Nov. – 2 Dec. 2021
Deliberative Democracy as a Strategy for Co-designing University Ethics Around Analytics and AI in Education
Simon Buckingham Shum
Connected Intelligence Centre, University of Technology Sydney
Universities can see an increasing range of student and staff activity as it becomes digitally visible in their platform ecosystems. The fields of Learning Analytics and AI in Education have demonstrated the significant benefits that ethically responsible, pedagogically informed analysis of student activity data can bring, but such services are only possible because they are undeniably a form of “surveillance”, raising legitimate questions about how the use of such tools should be governed.
Our prior work has drawn on the rich concepts and methods developed in human-centred system design, and participatory/co-design, to design, deploy and validate practical tools that give a voice to non-technical stakeholders (e.g. educators; students) in shaping such systems. We are now expanding the depth and breadth of engagement that we seek, looking to the Deliberative Democracy movement for inspiration. This is a response to the crisis in confidence in how typical democratic systems engage citizens in decision making. A hallmark is the convening of a Deliberative Mini-Public (DMP) which may work at different scales (organisation; community; region; nation) and can take diverse forms (e.g. Citizens’ Juries; Citizens’ Assemblies; Consensus Conferences; Planning Cells; Deliberative Polls). DMP’s combination of stratified random sampling to ensure authentic representation, neutrally facilitated workshops, balanced expert briefings, and real support from organisational leaders, has been shown to cultivate high quality dialogue in sometimes highly conflicted settings, leading to a strong sense of ownership of the DMP's final outputs (e.g. policy recommendations).
This symposium contribution will describe how the DMP model is informing university-wide consultation on the ethical principles that should govern the use of analytics and AI around teaching and learning data.
March 2021 • 24/7 Instant Feedback on Writing: Integrating AcaWriter into yo...Simon Buckingham Shum
Slides accompanying the monthly UTS educator briefing https://cic.uts.edu.au/events/24-7-instant-feedback-on-writing-integrating-acawriter-into-your-teaching-18-march/
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 with an information portal. Now we want to start upskilling academics, tutors and learning technologists, in a monthly session to give you the chance to learn about AcaWriter, and specifically, good practices for integrating it into your subject. CIC can support you, and we hope you may be interested in co-designing publishable research.
AcaWriter handles several different ‘genres’ of writing, including reflective writing (e.g. a Reflective Essay; Reflective Blogs/Journals on internships/work-placements) and analytical writing (e.g. Argumentative Essays; Research Abstracts & Introductions). This briefing will demo AcaWriter, and show it can be embedded in student activities. We hope this sparks ideas for your own teaching, which we can discuss in more detail.
ICQE20: Quantitative Ethnography Visualizations as Tools for ThinkingSimon Buckingham Shum
Slides for this keynote talk to the 2nd International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography
http://simon.buckinghamshum.net/2021/02/icqe2020-keynote-qe-viz-as-tools-for-thinking/
24/7 Instant Feedback on Writing: Integrating AcaWriter into your TeachingSimon Buckingham Shum
https://cic.uts.edu.au/events/24-7-instant-feedback-on-writing-integrating-acawriter-into-your-teaching-2-dec/
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 with an information portal. Now we want to start upskilling academics, tutors and learning technologists, in a monthly session to give you the chance to learn about AcaWriter, and specifically, good practices for integrating it into your subject. CIC can support you, and we hope you may be interested in co-designing publishable research.
AcaWriter handles several different ‘genres’ of writing, including reflective writing (e.g. a Reflective Essay; Reflective Blogs/Journals on internships/work-placements) and analytical writing (e.g. Argumentative Essays; Research Abstracts & Introductions).
This briefing will demo AcaWriter, and show it can be embedded in student activities. We hope this sparks ideas for your own teaching, which we can discuss in more detail.
An introduction to argumentation for UTS:CIC PhD students (with some Learning Analytics examples, but potentially of wider interest to students/researchers)
Webinar: Learning Informatics Lab, University of Minnesota
Replay the talk: https://youtu.be/dcJZeDIMr2I
Learning Informatics
AI • Analytics • Accountability • Agency
Simon Buckingham Shum
Professor of Learning Informatics
Director, Connected Intelligence Centre
University of Technology Sydney
Abstract:
“Health Informatics”. “Urban Informatics”. “Social Informatics”. Informatics offers systemic ways of analyzing and designing the interaction of natural and artificial information processing systems. In the context of education, I will describe some Learning Informatics lenses and practices which we have developed for co-designing analytics and AI with educators and students. We have a particular focus on closing the feedback loop to equip learners with competencies to navigate a complex, uncertain future, such as critical thinking, professional reflection and teamwork. En route, we will touch on how we build educators’ trust in novel tools, our design philosophy of “embracing imperfection” in machine intelligence, and the ways that these infrastructures embody values. Speaking from the perspective of leading an institutional innovation centre in learning analytics, I hope that our experiences spark productive reflection around as the UMN Learning Informatics Lab builds its program.
Biography:
Simon Buckingham Shum is Professor of Learning Informatics at the University of Technology Sydney, where he serves as inaugural director of the Connected Intelligence Centre. CIC is a transdisciplinary innovation centre, using analytics to provide new insights for university teams, with particular expertise in educational data science. Simon’s career-long fascination with software’s ability to make thinking visible has seen him active in communities including Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Hypertext, Design Rationale, Scholarly Publishing, Semantic Web, Computational Argumentation, Educational Technology and Learning Analytics. The challenge of visualizing contested knowledge has produced several books: Visualizing Argumentation, Knowledge Cartography, and Constructing Knowledge Art. He has been active over the last decade in shaping the field of Learning Analytics, co-founding the Society for Learning Analytics Research, and catalyzing several strands: Social Learning Analytics, Discourse Analytics, Dispositional Analytics and Writing Analytics. http://Simon.BuckinghamShum.net
Despite AI’s potential for beneficial use, it creates important risks for Australians. AI, big data, and AI-informed decision making can cause exclusion, discrimination, skill loss, and economic impact; and can affect privacy, security of critical infrastructure and social well-being. What types of technology raise particular human rights concerns? Which human rights are particularly implicated?
Abstract: The emerging configuration of educational institutions, technologies, scientific practices, ethics policies and companies can be usefully framed as the emergence of a new “knowledge infrastructure” (Paul Edwards). The idea that we may be transitioning into significantly new ways of knowing – about learning and learners, teaching and teachers – is both exciting and daunting, because new knowledge infrastructures redefine roles and redistribute power, raising many important questions. What should we see when open the black box powering analytics? How do we empower all stakeholders to engage in the design process? Since digital infrastructure fades quickly into the background, how can researchers, educators and learners engage with it mindfully? This isn’t just interesting to ponder academically: your school or university will be buying products that are being designed now. Or perhaps educational institutions should take control, building and sharing their own open source tools? How are universities accelerating the transition from analytics innovation to infrastructure? Speaking from the perspective of leading an institutional innovation centre in learning analytics, I hope that our experiences designing code, competencies and culture for learning analytics sheds helpful light on these questions.
Towards Collaboration Translucence: Giving Meaning to Multimodal Group DataSimon Buckingham Shum
Vanessa Echeverria, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, and Simon Buck- ingham Shum.. 2019. Towards Collaboration Translucence: Giving Meaning to Multimodal Group Data. In Proceedings of ACM CHI conference (CHI’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 39, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300269
Collocated, face-to-face teamwork remains a pervasive mode of working, which is hard to replicate online. Team members’ embodied, multimodal interaction with each other and artefacts has been studied by researchers, but due to its complexity, has remained opaque to automated analysis. However, the ready availability of sensors makes it increasingly affordable to instrument work spaces to study teamwork and groupwork. The possibility of visualising key aspects of a collaboration has huge potential for both academic and professional learning, but a frontline challenge is the enrichment of quantitative data streams with the qualitative insights needed to make sense of them. In response, we introduce the concept of collaboration translucence, an approach to make visible selected features of group activity. This is grounded both theoretically (in the physical, epistemic, social and affective dimensions of group activity), and contextually (using domain-specific concepts). We illustrate the approach from the automated analysis of healthcare simulations to train nurses, generating four visual proxies that fuse multimodal data into higher order patterns.
Panel held at LAK13: 3rd International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge
http://simon.buckinghamshum.net/2013/03/lak13-edu-data-scientists-scarce-breed
Educational Data Scientists: A Scarce Breed
The Educational Data Scientist is currently a poorly understood, rarely sighted breed. Reports vary: some are known to be largely nocturnal, solitary creatures, while others have been reported to display highly social behaviour in broad daylight. What are their primary habits? How do they see the world? What ecological niches do they occupy now, and will predicted seismic shifts transform the landscape in their favour? What survival skills do they need when running into other breeds? Will their numbers grow, and how might they evolve? In this panel, the conference will hear and debate not only broad perspectives on the terrain, but will have been exposed to some real life specimens, and caught glimpses of the future ecosystem.
Keynote Address, International Conference of the Learning Sciences, London Festival of Learning
Transitioning Education’s Knowledge Infrastructure:
Shaping Design or Shouting from the Touchline?
Abstract: Bit by bit, a data-intensive substrate for education is being designed, plumbed in and switched on, powered by digital data from an expanding sensor array, data science and artificial intelligence. The configurations of educational institutions, technologies, scientific practices, ethics policies and companies can be usefully framed as the emergence of a new “knowledge infrastructure” (Paul Edwards).
The idea that we may be transitioning into significantly new ways of knowing – about learning and learners – is both exciting and daunting, because new knowledge infrastructures redefine roles and redistribute power, raising many important questions. For instance, assuming that we want to shape this infrastructure, how do we engage with the teams designing the platforms our schools and universities may be using next year? Who owns the data and algorithms, and in what senses can an analytics/AI-powered learning system be ‘accountable’? How do we empower all stakeholders to engage in the design process? Since digital infrastructure fades quickly into the background, how can researchers, educators and learners engage with it mindfully? If we want to work in “Pasteur’s Quadrant” (Donald Stokes), we must go beyond learning analytics that answer research questions, to deliver valued services to frontline educational users: but how are universities accelerating the analytics innovation to infrastructure transition?
Wrestling with these questions, the learning analytics community has evolved since its first international conference in 2011, at the intersection of learning and data science, and an explicit concern with those human factors, at many scales, that make or break the design and adoption of new educational tools. We are forging open source platforms, links with commercial providers, and collaborations with the diverse disciplines that feed into educational data science. In the context of ICLS, our dialogue with the learning sciences must continue to deepen to ensure that together we influence this knowledge infrastructure to advance the interests of all stakeholders, including learners, educators, researchers and leaders.
Speaking from the perspective of leading an institutional analytics innovation centre, I hope that our experiences designing code, competencies and culture for learning analytics sheds helpful light on these questions.
Kirsty Kitto, Simon Buckingham Shum, and Andrew Gibson. (2018). Embracing Imperfection in Learning Analytics. In Proceedings of LAK18: International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, March 5–9, 2018, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp.451-460. (ACM, New York, NY, USA). https://doi.org/10.1145/3170358.3170413
Open Access: http://simon.buckinghamshum.net/2018/01/embracing-imperfection-in-learning-analytics
Abstract: Learning Analytics (LA) sits at the confluence of many contributing disciplines, which brings the risk of hidden assumptions inherited from those fields. Here, we consider a hidden assumption derived from computer science, namely, that improving computational accuracy in classification is always a worthy goal. We demonstrate that this assumption is unlikely to hold in some important educational contexts, and argue that embracing computational “imperfection” can improve outcomes for those scenarios. Specifically, we show that learner-facing approaches aimed at “learning how to learn” require more holistic validation strategies. We consider what information must be provided in order to reasonably evaluate algorithmic tools in LA, to facilitate transparency and realistic performance comparisons.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
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SBS_ISLS2022.pdf
1. UTS CRICOS 00099F
Intro…
Simon Buckingham Shum
Director, Connected Intelligence Centre
Professor of Learning Informatics
Simon.BuckinghamShum.net
cic.uts.edu.au
@sbuckshum
Meeting of the International Society for the Learning Sciences, 2022:
Engaging Learning Scientists in Policy Challenges: AI and the Future of Learning
2. Personalised feedback at scale: (reflective) academic writing
Automated
feedback on
academic writing
available 24/7 to all
students via
AcaWriter
https://cic.uts.edu.au/tools/awa
3. Personalised feedback at scale: building belonging and
coaching better study habits
Use of the OnTask
adaptive messaging
platform to personalise
communications to
students based on
their activity
https://cic.uts.edu.au/tools/ontask
4. Personalised feedback at scale: professional skills
Skills Analytics reports
for students on
course selection
to educators on
curriculum design
to employers on
workforce design
https://cic.uts.edu.au/skills-analytics-to-get-students-on-track
5. Giving voice through Deliberative Democracy
Extended student/staff consultation on the ethics of Analytics/AI in UTS EdTech
https://cic.uts.edu.au/projects/edtech-ethics
6. Research summaries/white papers
for policy consultations
https://simon.buckinghamshum.net/2020/12/evidence-fair-robust-ai-assessment
https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/social-justice-uts/centre-social-justice-inclusion/partnerships/human-rights-technology-project
https://melbourne-cshe.unimelb.edu.au/research/research-programs/technology-enhanced-learning-in-higher-education/the-ethical-use-of-learning-analytics