Empathy Simulator
The Empathy Simulator is a virtual human called ‘Jim’, developed to train essential communication skills. Jim the Avatar is a collaboration between LACe members Janet Beilby, Michelle Quail and Peter Allen, and national and international colleagues in the higher education and private sectors. You can read our published paper in BMC Medical Education.
Our projects have received more than $150,000 combined funding from Curtin University and peak industry bodies Alzheimer’s Victoria and Alzheimer’s Australia. We received a $50,000 grant from Alzheimer’s Australia to investigate how students interact with and learn from a virtual resident with dementia.
Watch our video.
Contact: Janet Beilby
StatHand
StatHand is a mobile application that supports students through the process of selecting appropriate statistical tests and procedures for various research questions, hypotheses and data types. The project involved LACe members Peter Allen, Lynne Roberts and Frank Baughman, and colleagues at the Australian National University, Griffith University and the University of New England.
StatHand was awarded an Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching Innovation and Development Grant (Category A) of $161,000. You can read two recent papers on factors that promote structural awareness and the development and evaluation of the app in Frontiers in Psychology.
Download the app on the StatHand website or Apple store.
Contact: Peter Allen
Ethical learning analytics
Learning analytics is the collection, analysis and feedback of data to learners to improve learning. As higher education sectors build the capacity and implement learning analytics programs, it is important to understand the relative impact on the learner and teacher, in addition to the capacity for retention building.
Ethical learning analytics is a collaboration between LACe members Lynne Roberts and Joel Howell, and the Director of Learning Futures David Gibson at Curtin. The project has received over $40,000 of funding from Curtin to evaluate student and staff involvement and use of learning analytics. The project recently published papers in Technology, Knowledge and Learning and Frontiers in Psychology.
For more information please see the ethical learning analytics website.
Contact: Joel Howell or Lynne Roberts
