Simon Buckingham Shum

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 innovation centre inventing, piloting, evaluating and scaling data-driven personalised feedback to students. 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, Design Rationale, Open Scholarly Publishing, Semantic Web, Computational Argumentation, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Educational Technology and Learning Analytics/AI in Education. He has worked over the last decade to help establish the field of Learning Analytics, also co-founding the Society for Learning Analytics Research. Simon’s background in Psychology (B.Sc.), Ergonomics (M.Sc.) and Human-Computer Interaction (Ph.D.) always draw his attention to the myriad human factors that determine the effective adoption of new tools for thought, and the kinds of futures they might create at scale.