I'm interested in epistemic beliefs - beliefs about the source, structure, justification and stability of knowledge - and their relationship to actions by individuals and organisations.

On the latter, I wrote my MA thesis in philosophy of education on the implications of one perspective on mind (the Extended Mind thesis) for our understanding of knowledge and its assessment. There I focussed particularly on the use of external tools, and an experiment in Denmark which allowed...

Keys: Cohere, evidence hub, discourse analytics, learning analytics, collaborative information seeking

Knight, S. and Littleton, K. (2015) Developing a multiple-document-processing performance assessment for epistemic literacy, The 5th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference (LAK15), Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Knight, S., Wise, A., Arastoopour, G., Shaffer, D., Buckingham Shum, S. and Kirschner, P. (2014) Analytics for learning and becoming in practice, Demo at International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014)

Knight, S., Buckingham Shum, S. and Littleton, K. (2014) Epistemology, assessment, pedagogy: where learning meets analytics in the middle space, Journal of Learning Analytics, UTS ePress

Knight, S. and Mercer, N. (2014) The role of exploratory talk in classroom search engine tasks, Technology, Pedagogy and Education, In Press, Taylor & Francis

Knight, S., Arastoopour, G., Shaffer, D., Buckingham Shum, S. and Littleton, K. (2014) Epistemic networks for epistemic commitments, International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), Boulder, Colarado, USA

Hassler, B., Hennessy, S., Knight, S. and Connolly, T. (2014) Developing an Open Resource Bank for Interactive Teaching of STEM: Perspectives of school teachers and teacher educators, Journal of Interactive Media in Education

Knight, S. (2014) Finding knowledge - what is it to 'know' when we search?, in eds. René König and Miriam Rasch, Society of the Query Reader: Reflections on Web Search, pp. 227-238, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures

Knight, S., Wise, A., Chen, B. and Cheng, B. (2014) It's About Time: 4th International Workshop on Temporal Analyses of Learning Data, The 5th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference (LAK15): Scaling Up: Big Data to Big Impact

Knight, S. (2014) Creating a supportive environment for classroom dialogue, in eds. Sara Hennessy, Paul Warwick, Lloyd Brown, Diane Rawlins and Caroline Neale, Developing Interactive Teaching and Learning Using the IWB, 2013 Open University Press

Knight, S. and Littleton, K. (2013) Discourse, computation and context - sociocultural DCLA revisited, 1st International Workshop on Discourse-Centric Learning Analytics 2013, Leuven, Belgium

Knight, S., Buckingham Shum, S. and Littleton, K. (2013) Epistemology, pedagogy, assessment and learning analytics, Third Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2013), Leuven, Belgium,

Knight, S., Buckingham Shum, S. and Littleton, K. (2013) Tracking epistemic beliefs and sensemaking in collaborative information retrieval, Workshop: Collaborative Information Seeking Workshop 2013 (CIS'13): Consolidating the Past, Creating the future at 16th ACM Conference on Computer Support Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2013), San Antonio, Texas

Knight, S., Buckingham Shum, S. and Littleton, K. (2013) Collaborative sensemaking in learning analytics, Workshop: CSCW and Education Workshop (2013): Viewing education as a site of work practice at 16th ACM Conference on Computer Support Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2013)