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CIC-Around: A co-designed learning and analytics community for postgraduates Teaching & Learning Grant, 2016: PI: Simon Knight (Research fellow: Connected Intelligence Centre) & Theresa Anderson (Senior lecturer & MDSI course coordinator: Connected Intelligence Centre); with Ollie Coady (Learning technologist: IML); Shawn Wang (Web developer: Connected Intelligence Centre). Using a participatory design process postgraduate MDSI students and UTS staff will collaboratively develop ...
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Now that the "the only constant is change" in society, our capacity to engage with novel challenges is of first order importance. What are the personal dispositions that authentic learning needs to cultivate, and can we make these assessable and visible to learners and educators? Learning Dispositions are attracting significant attention within educational research, and refer to the habits of mind that shape a learner's response to challenge. The CLARA tool is a research validated survey instru...
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Students learn that critical, reflective writing must make their thinking visible. This is conveyed through particular linguistic forms. Can computers learn to identify these patterns, and feed them back to students to help improve their writing? The ability to communicate and debate ideas coherently and critically is a core graduate attribute. In many disciplines, writing provides a significant window into the mind of the student, evidencing mastery of the curriculum and the ability to reflec...
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