DrAntonette Shibani

Chair

Guest Editor

This episode of the SoLAR Spotlight podcast series features Dr Aneesha Bakharia, Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia, and Professor Barbara Wasson, Director of the Centre for The Science of Learning and Technology (SLATE), University of Bergen, Norway as guests, hosted by Shibani Antonette & Rogers Kaliisa. They converse about the recent advances in generative AI and tools like ChatGPT and how they relate to work in learning analytics that aims to improve teaching and learning with data.

What does a "beautiful" woman from India look like? What about the Philippines or Laos? Artificial Intelligence (AI) purports to have the answer. AI-generated images of "beautiful women" from around the world have been going viral for months. One TikTok video featuring AI images of South and East-Asian women — recently posted by an account named AI World Beauties — has more than 1.7 million views. However, experts say that because they're "trained" on biased data sets and stereotypes, the images can perpetuate limited, exclusionary and potentially harmful ideals.

This episode of the SoLAR Spotlight podcast series features Andrew Krumm as guest, hosted by Shibani Antonette and Rogers Kaliisa. They converse about the implementation of learning analytics in schools - where we are now, what challenges we face and how we can look toward the future.

This episode of the SoLAR Spotlight podcast series features Leah Macfadyen and Danny Liu as guests, hosted by Shibani Antonette. They converse about the importance of learning analytics practitioners and the pragmatisms in translating learning analytics research into real classroom practice.

This episode of the SoLAR Spotlight podcast series features Ruth Crick and Elizabeth Koh as guests, hosted by Shibani Antonette. They talk about key skills to nurture among 21st century learners and how learning analytics can play a part.

This episode of the SoLAR Spotlight podcast series features Paul Prinsloo and Kirsty Kitto as guests, hosted by Shibani Antonette. They talk about privacy and ethical concerns in learning analytics and ways to overcome them.