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We are glad to announce the results of the ⭐2023 @MonashDFI Seed Grant Program⭐ This program aims to support interdisciplinary research in AI and data science to tackle major research global challenges. Full list of successful seed grant projects - monash.edu/data-futures-i…

What a rewarding opening day AIED Exicted to find out that one of our CoLAM papers got nominated for the best paper award! Congrats to all the co-authors, especially Linxuan Zhao for leading this pioneering work (the first study that combined MMLA with ONA).

Linxuan Zhao presenting CoLAM work (best paper nominee AIED) on Analysing Verbal Communication in Embodied Team Learning Using Multimodal Data and Ordered Network Analysis. Full text available: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-…

Great to see Learning Analytics to receive impact factor (3.9) in JCR for the first time this year. Its journal citation indicator is at its high (2.32). This makes it 27 out of 742 indexed journals in #education and educational research. Well done #learninganalytics!

China's progress in humanoid robots deserves more attention. The video below has <300 views on YouTube, while the robot appears to be - more agile than Tesla's Optimus - more dexterous than Agility Robotics's Digit - (likely) a lot cheaper than both

The University of Kyoto in Japan allows students to wear anything they want for their Graduation ceremony. This is the way.

NO STOPPING

I am delighted to share that our paper "Practical and Ethical Challenges of Large Language Models in Education: A Systematic Scoping Review" has been accepted for publication in BJET Editors. Preprint: researchgate.net/publication/37… We identified 53 different educational tasks that

Our new systematic scoping review just accepted BJET Editors on large language models in education. It shows several prominent uses of #LLMs but also some practical and ethical challenges. Full pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2303.13379 #aieducation #AI #learninganalytics #edtech

A fun night sharing our ideas about using #learninganalytics to support #feedbackliteracy and enhance #feedback effectiveness. Very honoured to be one of the three teams selected to bring educational innovations to Monash University. Thanks for Monash Education Academy for organising The Pitch.

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📢 Registration Open! Join us at the Data Storytelling in Learning Analytics workshop in Kyoto, Japan! 🇯🇵 ➡️ Registration: solaresearch.org/events/lak/lak… Information: datastorytelling-education.github.io Early Bird Registration by Jan 29th/2024 #DSLAK24 #LAK24 #DataStorytelling

worry not sir, we shall revise and resubmit elsewhere

Join our 2nd Trace-SRL workshop at LAK24! #LAKTRACESRL We will share exciting and novel learning tools and analytics engine with lots of hands-on activities and round-table discussions. Find out more information here: sites.google.com/monash.edu/lak…

What did I just watch???

I asked GPT about pizza and it described the taste oh so accurately that I am now convinced that it has indeed eaten Pizza, and is self-aware of its eating experience. I hereby join Lemoine and call on OpenAI and Anthropic to not starve their LLMs, or we'll call CPS. #FreeLLM

Our #DIS2024 paper, "Co-designing a Knowledge Management Tool for Educator Communities of Practice (CoP)," is now available: doi.org/10.1145/364383…. We explored teaching teams' practices as CoPs and suggested design principles to inform the development of a KM tool. Copenhagen💙