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Problems/questions are indispensable in teaching and learning. Adequate

problems/questions give essential motivation for learning. Problems/questions posed by the learners are believed to help them in their learning and inquiry path. But how can we best scaffold this within a rapidly changing digital environment? Moreover, problems/questions with adequate quality in various testing conditions are believed to enable teachers to assess individual students' capability and readiness of transfer in specific domain knowledge. Despite this, there are still many areas in need of systematic investigation to promote knowledge and skills facilitated by a problems/questions approach, including learning by problem solving and/or generation. For instance: what criteria constitute as adequate test item quality (in addition to frequently cited psychometric index like item difficulty, discrimination index); how to best assess a learner's capability with appropriate quality level within constraints (e.g., an optimal number of items, time limitation, etc.); any feasible metadata heuristics and/or techniques for problems/questions selection; any promising alternative strategies for compiling a sufficient number of problems/questions; any scaffolding techniques for question-generation implementation and instructional diffusion; what and how AI tools can be leveraged to facilitate the process and outcomes of problem design and evaluation and so on.

From ICCE 2006 to 2024, we held a series of 17 workshops where we paid special attention to "questions/problems" in technology-enhanced learning. We established a SIG of "Educational Use of Problems/Questions in Technology-Enhanced Learning" in 2015. This 18th workshop is the eleventh workshop organized by the SIG. This continuous workshop will provide a good and timely opportunity to present and share the results and issues about "problems/questions" and grow the SIG community. In 2025 we are acutely aware of a reconstituted digital environment brought about by innovations with Artificial Intelligence.

We cordially invite authors, presenters, and participants who are interested in "problems/questions" in a rapidly changing digital environment. We would like to discuss the many facets and potential uses of "problems/questions" from a technological, computational, pedagogical, psychometric, theoretical, sociological, and administrative point of view. In addition to oral presentation sessions for research papers, we have a demonstration session for the computer-supported environments developed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Problem/question generation/authoring/posing

• Learning by problem/question-posing

• Problem/question variation/changing

• Prompt Engineering

• Problem analysis and evaluation

• Structuration of domain knowledge

• Problem/question selection

• Metadata or Ontology of problems

• Metacognition in problem-solving or problem-posing

• Test Theory

• Instructional intervention for problem/question-authoring in classrooms

• Affordances of the digital environment for scaffolding questioning and question-answering

All workshop participants are required to register for the main conference, but there will not be an additional workshop fee.