Simon Buckingham Shum
Professor, Learning Informatics, University of Technology Sydney
Simon Buckingham Shum is Professor of Learning Informatics at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he serves as inaugural director of the Connected Intelligence Centre (CIC). CIC is a transdisciplinary R&D centre inventing, piloting, evaluating and scaling personalised feedback to students through human-centred design of analytics and AI. Prior to this he was a founding member of the UK Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (1995-2014).
Simon’s career-long fascination with software’s ability to make thinking visible has seen him active in communities including Hypertext, Computational Argumentation, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Educational Technology. He has worked over the last decade to help establish the field of Learning Analytics. Simon’s background in Human-Computer Interaction always draws his attention to the human factors that determine the effective adoption of new tools for thinking, and the kinds of futures they might create at scale.
