
Learning.Analytics for Learning.Futures? Simon Buckingham Shum and Ruth Deakin Crick Centre for Connected Intelligence, UTS The social, technical and political challenges we face as a society demand new ways of thinking and working which are collaborative, holistic and resilient. As we unpack what these words mean, the implications for a university – indeed any learning organisation – run deep. At the core of the paradigm shift we see the need for learners (at all levels) to take increasing responsibility for their learning in authentic contexts: to become resilient agents of their own learning trajectories; to think holistically and to make sense of complex data. Far from being solely ‘graduate attributes’, the same qualities are needed by us: if we can’t model these qualities ourselves, we can’t teach them; if we can’t assess them authentically, we have no evidence base and we can’t provide formative feedback. This line of argument shapes how CIC is conceiving learning analytics (computer-supported tools to help learners and educators gather, analyse, visualise and act on learners’ data) and collective intelligence (networking tools to build a learning community’s evidence-base). In this talk we will give glimpses of these approaches in action, we’ll hear from learners and educators on what this paradigm shift feels like, and through several activities, we invite you to imagine how we can collaborate to test these concepts across UTS, as we move into Learning.Futures.