Teaching
PhD Students
My ‘teaching’ is primarily the mentoring of PhD students, of whom I’m very proud! Search my blog and the KMi/CIC news for more stories about their work . . .
Clara Mancini (1999-2003). Towards Cinematic Hypertext. A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation | Thesis | KMi News | Now Senior Lecturer in Computing, Open University
Bertrand Sereno (2001-2006). A Document-Centric Semantic Annotation Environment to Support Sense-Making | Thesis | KMi News | Now HR Expert Consultant Talent & Learning, ING
Alexandra Okada (2005-2006). | Thesis | KMi News | Now Research Associate, Open University
Anna De Liddo (2006-2008). A Process Memory Platform to Support Participatory Planning and Deliberation | Thesis | KMi News | Now Senior Research Fellow, KMi
Neil Benn (2002-2009). Modelling Scholarly Debate: Conceptual Foundations for Knowledge Domain Analysis Technology | Thesis | KMi News | Now Développeur Chef d’équipe, Lunatech SAS
Joanna Kwiat (2000-2009). Multi-Perspective Annotation of Digital Stories for Professional Knowledge Sharing | Thesis | KMi News | Now Northampton Borough Council
Al Selvin (2003-2011). Making Representations Matter: Understanding Practitioner Experience in Participatory Sensemaking | Thesis | KMi News | Director, User Experience & Knowledge Management, Verizon USA (R.I.P.)
Simon Knight (2013-2015). Developing Learning Analytic Understandings of Epistemic Commitments in a Collaborative Information Seeking Task | KMi News | Now Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
Duygu Bektik (née Simsek) (2012-2016). Learning Analytics for Academic Writing Through Automatic Identification of Metadiscourse | KMi News | Now Lecturer, The Open University, UK
Shibani Antonette (2016—). Understanding the Impact of Automated and Peer Feedback on Academic Writing and Revisions | CIC News | Now Lecturer in Transdisciplinary Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
Vanessa Echeverria Barzola (2016—). Designing and Validating Feedback for Collocated Teams using Multimodal Learning Analytics | CIC News | Now Postdoctoral Fellow, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Carlos Prieto Alvarez (2016—). Engaging Stakeholders in the Learning Analytics Design Process. | CIC News | Now Senior Learning Technologist, University of Sydney
Sophie Abel (2017—). Embedding Writing Analytics Tools in Research Writing Pedagogy to Develop and Improve HDR Students’ Research Writing | CIC News
Gloria Fernández Nieto (2019—). In Pursuit of Educationally Meaningful Automatic Feedback for Collaboration in Collocated Scenarios. | CIC News
Ben Hicks (2020—). Mapping Data Transitions: From Data to Sensemaking in Learning Analytics.
I regularly give tutorial introductions for professional development and doctoral summer schools, e.g.
Co-Chair, Doctoral Consortium, International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (2015, 2016, 2019, 2020)
10th ICO International Research School – workshop leader for educational doctoral students
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and online webinars: several invitational seminars delivered online on Learning Analytics
Research as Hypermedia Discourse, “Nuts & Bolts” Research Methods Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes
Visual Sensemaking for Contested Collective Intelligence, UK Visual Analytics PhD Summer School, Middlesex University
Finally, I did some work on tools for e-PhDs, that is, part-time doctoral research conducted at a distance from the student’s supervisor and lab.
UTS Master of Data Science & Innovation (2015-2017)
UTS:CIC designed, launched (in 2015) and coordinated the transdisciplinary Master of Data Science & Innovation. As part of this, I coordinated and taught the first presentation of Data Visualisation & Narratives in 2016. In 2018 this program transferred to the new Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation.
Open University MBA: Managing Knowledge (1999-2002)
The Open University Business School launched the world’s first MBA level course on the red hot topic of Managing Knowledge in 1999 [archive page]. Joining this pioneering, multidisciplinary, distance learning team, I contributed:
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Knowledge Technologies in Context (Course Unit): Conceptual foundations for the relationships between knowledge forms and technologies. -
The Cost of Knowledge (Course Unit): What are the costs of obtaining information and turning it into useful knowledge? Put this into practice in a collaborative sensemaking exercise in an internet team.
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Sensemaking in an Internet Team (Assignment): A novel internet-based assignment to reflect on the sensemaking and team processes involved in analyzing diverse information resources on the Web.
- Managing Knowledge: An Essential Reader which brought together the key readings for the MBA. [chapter eprint]
