Projects
Paving the path for better education
From informing policies to improving learning spaces, we’re using technology in diverse ways to expand our understanding of human learning – and enhance education for all.
Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics (SHEILA)
Project lead: Professor Dragan Gasevic (Monash University)
The SHEILA project focuses on building a policy development framework for the adoption of learning analytics in higher education by engaging stakeholders in the development process.
Building Capacity to use Learning Analytics to Improve Higher Education in Latin America (LALA)
Project lead: Associate Professor Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
The LALA project aims to improve the quality, efficiency and relevance of higher education in Latin America. It is building local capacities to design, adapt, implement and adopt learning analytics tools to improve academic decision-making.
European Maturity model for Blended Education (EMBED)
Project lead: George Ubachs (European Association of Distance Teaching)
EMBED creates a reference model for developing and implementing blended learning to innovate in higher education.
Using Practice Analytics to Understand Variation and Support Reflective Practice
Project lead: Professor Tim Shaw (The University of Sydney)
This initiative strives to understand how data from Patient Administration Systems and other sources can be used by clinicians to engage in reflective practice, reduce variation and improve performance. The project focuses on co-design and engagement with clinical teams.
The Global Classroom: Learning without Borders
Project lead: Associate Professor Basia Diug (Monash University)
We’re developing a ‘Global Classroom’ that adopts a novel digital approach. It will engage students from Monash and Warwick Universities in case-based learning to collaboratively solve a problem using off-the-shelf mobile technology.
Facilitating Self-Regulated Learning with Personalised Scaffolds on Student’s own Regulation Activities (FLoRA)
Project lead: Professor Dragan Gasevic (Monash University)
FLoRA explores how we can advance the support given to students in a two-step approach. First it will improve unobtrusive data collection and machine learning techniques to better measure and understand SRL-processes. Then it will use these new insights to facilitate student’s SRL through personalised scaffolds.
Data-Smart Schools – Enhancing the Use of Digital Data in Secondary Schools
Project lead: Professor Neil Selwyn (Monash University)
This project aims to provide rich insights into the technical, informatic, organisational and social issues around the (re)use of digital data in schools. It engages whole school communities in developing models of digital data ‘best practice’ for Australian education.
Learning Analytics for Healthcare Simulation
Project lead: Dr Roberto Martinez-Maldonado (Monash University)
This initiative investigates how multimodal learning analytics can enable the automated generation of evidence. To support students and educators in healthcare simulations, the project will provide feedback on clinical errors, teamwork strategies and the affective experiences of learners.
Analytics for Instructional Proxemics
Project lead: Dr Roberto Martinez-Maldonado (Monash University)
In this project, we’re developing methods for helping teachers reflect on their positioning in the classroom. We’re achieving this by making key activity traces visible and available to support professional development, co-teaching reflections and optimising the orchestration of classrooms in real time.
Towards Automatic Recognition of Dialogue Acts for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Project lead: Dr Guanliang Chen (Monash University)
This project explores the effectiveness of existing dialogue act schemes for modelling and analysing educational dialogues. It also involves evaluating how effective existing dialogue act recognition methods are in capturing teacher and student needs in educational settings.
Impacts of COVID-19 on teaching practice and opportunities for virtual internships
Project lead: Dr Yi-Shan Tsai (Monash University)
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced unprecedented disruptions to teaching and posed urgent questions regarding its impact on learners in all levels of education. This project seeks to explore how teachers work collaboratively with others and use technology to support students during the crisis, so as to identify essential skills, resources, and support that can enable teachers to act as agents of change in difficult times. The lessons learnt will inform the design of a virtual internship for trainee teachers who continue to face great uncertainty regarding school placements.
Empowering Volunteers for Recordkeeping and Storytelling in Migrant Community Organisations in Australia
Project lead: Delvin Varghese (Monash University)
This project will enable a sustained engagement with migrant community organisations in Victoria that serve marginalised communities.
Prototyping a feedback management tool to close the feedback loop
Project lead: Yi-Shan Tsai
The project aims to facilitate dialogic feedback by exploring how data and learning analytics-based feedback tools can scaffold the development of feedback literacy and inform feedback pedagogy.
Human-Centred Teamwork Analytics
Project lead: Dragan Gasevic (Monash University) , Roberto Martinez-Maldonado (Monash University)
This project aims to develop methods to assist the assessment and improvement of collocated teamwork, by making multimodal activity traces visible and available for computational analysis. This project expects to bridge the gap between promising sensing technologies and the dearth of tools to automatically assess teamwork. Expected outcomes include co-design and modelling methodologies for human-centred analytics that map from low-level data to higher-order constructs to enable non-data science savvy users to get actionable insights into multimodal team traces. This research will provide significant benefits to Australia, with communication and teamwork being two of the topmost critical skills required by Australian employers.
Data analytics-based tools and methods to enhance self-regulated learning
Project lead: Delvin Varghese (Monash University)
This project aims to develop student self-regulated learning skills by harnessing the potential of Big Data analytics.
Teamwork analytics for training collaborative problem solving in professional higher education (TeamLearn)
Project lead: Roberto Martinez Maldonado (Monash University), Rachelle Esterhazy (University of Oslo), Dragan Gasevic (Monash University), Hanni-Mari Muukkonen-van der Meer (University of Oulu)
Using design-based interventions, the TeamLearn project will (1) analyse the collaboration and collect perceptions of students and teachers in medical interprofessional, nursing and legal education about collaborative problem solving and teamwork; (2) design, together with teachers, students and developers, a tool which uses digital traces of teamwork to display automated feedback to users; (3) develop, implement and evaluate learning scenarios in which the automated feedback tool is used to assist the improvement of teamwork and collaborative problem solving in professional higher education.
Educational Data Storytelling and Collaboration Analytics
Project lead: Roberto Martinez-Maldonado (Monash University)
During the fellowship, my plan is to crystallise a Human-Centred Collaboration Analytics 2025 vision: this is to create methods to assist the formative assessment and improvement of collaboration and teamwork, by making salient activity traces automatically visible and available for children and youth, and their educators to reflect and act upon. This will involve co-designing data representations with students to improve collaboration skills such as effective communication, group organisation and team leadership. Similarly, teachers will co-design teaching companions that will capture evidence about students’ progress to, for example, automatically generate insights based on teachers’ pedagogical intentions.
Digital tracing and analysis of collaborative learning with knowledge objects
Project lead: Crina Damşa (University of Oslo)
The centre focuses on exploring processes of collaborative learning with knowledge objects in higher education, and related processes of competence development
Data-Smart Schools: Enhancing the use of digital data within secondary schools
Project lead: Roberto Martinez-Maldonado (Monash University)
This project aims to investigate the use of digital data in schools to identify ways to improve its capture and use.
CELLA: Center for Learning and Living with Artificial Intelligence
Project lead: Sanna Jarvela (University of Oulu), Inge Molenaar (Radboud University)
The centre aims to create an international network of partners with expertise in educational sciences and learning sciences to advance evidence-based and personalized learning in educational technology.
A trustworthy blockchain-based credentialing system
Project lead: Joseph Liu (Monash University)
The project aims at exploring and developing a blockchain enabled trusted credential issuance and verification system.
Towards automatic marking of writing assignments in legal education
Project lead: Mladen Raković (Monash University)
The project aims to investigate the viability of using state-of-the-art supervised machine learning algorithms to analyse and automatically score students’ responses to criminal law casenote assignment.
Improving Algorithmic Fairness in Automatic Classifiers of Educational Forum Posts
Project lead: Guanliang Chen
The project aims to investigate how predictive fairness can be improved under the constraints of (1) without sacrificing the performance of predictive accuracy; and (2) without explicitly without using any information about sensitive attributes of students.
Interactive text analytics tool that supports writing from multiple sources
Project lead: Mladen Raković
The project seeks to develop a demo writing analytics tool that supports students as they work on multi-source essay writing tasks.
Leading Virtual Learning Teacher Course
Project lead: Michael Phillips (Monash University)
This research project meets an immediate demand – increased capability in leading virtual learning - while also generating a new method for individualising professional learning.