Posts

  • Questioning Learning Analytics – Cultivating critical engagement (LAK’22)
    Gist of LAK 22 paper
  • New Research Publications in Learning Analytics
    Three of my journal articles got published recently, two on learning analytics/ writing analytics implementations . that I worked on earlier (many years ago in fact, which just got published!). Article 1: Educator ...
  • 2019 Year in review
    Welcome 2020! A new year is the perfect time to reflect on the past year, so I wanted to take a step back and think about it. 2019 was one of the most successful years for me professionally (and personally) with a range of experiences and productive outcomes. Quite a few achievements I’m really ...
  • 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 format I use for article notes which summarizes the gist of a paper with short descriptions under respective headers. I had a few thoughts ...
  • LAK 2019 in Tempe, Arizona
    I attended the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference LAK this year in the midst of my tight thesis writing schedule, and did not regret it šŸ™‚ This 9th International LAK (4-8 Mar, 2019) was held in Tempe, Arizona which meant a flight travel of 15 hours + transit from Sydney one way; I survived, thankfully. First ...
  • Contextualizable learning analytics for writing support
    Recently I gave a talk onĀ Augmenting pedagogical writing support with contextualizable learning analytics at the CRLI seminar series in the University of Sydney.Ā  It was a great opportunity to share and discuss ideas from my PhD research, and indeed a privilege to be invited to present at this seminar. Long time slot means less time ...
  • Working with Jupyter notebooks #code
    Jupyter is an open source program that helps you share and run code in many different programming languages. Jupyter notebooks are great to quickly prototype different versions of code, as they are easy to edit and try different outputs. The format of a Jupyter notebook is similar to reports in the form of Markdowns that ...
  • Telling stories with data and visualizations – Some key messages
    The topic of telling stories from data is huge and probably needs many many hours and books to explain the ideal ways of doing it. But Dr. Roberto Martinez did a great job in giving us a quick introduction to the topic and its pragmatic application in an hour at his talk at the UTS ...
  • London Festival of Learning 2018
    I attended theĀ London Festival of LearningĀ this year from June 22nd-30th, which brought together three conferences: the 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), the Fifth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (L@S) and the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).Ā  It was great to see the convergence of ideas and ...
  • Preparing for a doctoral consortium
    There are many opportunities for doctoral students to participate in a doctoral consortium in the ed-tech research community, amongst others. A Doctoral consortium is usually organized by conferences where graduate students come together to present their work to experts in the field and peers, and get feedback from them. The expert panel might also offer ...
  • LAK 2018 in Sydney
    This post is on the exciting week of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference LAK 2018, held in Sydney. LAK is a prestigious conference dedicated for sharing work in Learning Analytics across the globe. LAK coming down under was something we were looking forward to for quite some time. LAK is in fact the very ...