Held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2024)
Manila, Philippines
25 November, 2024
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Contact
Rwitajit Majumdar <majumdar_at_kumamoto-u.ac.jp>, Soumya Narayanan
Organizing Committee
Rwitajit Majumdar Kumamoto University, Japan. Rwitajit is an Associate Professor at the Research and Educational Institute for Semiconductors and Informatics, Kumamoto Unviersity. His research interests include: learning analytics, HCI and data-driven services in education. He co-organised previous ICCE workshops on Learning Analytics (2019, 2020, 2021,2022) and the Embodied Learning workshops in 2021, 2022, 2023.
Prajakt Pande Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, Texas, USA. Prajakt is an Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Technology-enhanced Immersive Learning at SMU’s Simmons School of Education and Human Development. His research primarily involves the development and evaluation of innovative technology interfaces, such as immersive VR, to facilitate embodied learning of scientific concepts and phenomena. Before SMU, Prajakt worked at the Molecule Maker Lab Institute, an NSF-funded AI institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he led research on the design and use of VR for science learning at Roskilde University, Denmark, as a postdoctoral researcher.
Aditi Kothiyal Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India. Aditi is an assistant teaching professor associated with the Center for Creative Learning at IIT Gandhinagar, where she takes a 4E cognition perspective to investigate how hands-on work leads to learning. Previously, she was a postdoc at the CHILI lab in EPFL, working in multimodal learning analytics and educational robotics. Her research interests lie at the boundaries of STEM education, educational technologies, and embodied learning, and she was the co-organizer of the previous two Embodied Learning Workshops at ICCE in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Jayakrishnan Madathil Warriem IIT Madras, India. Jayakrishnan works as Senior Scientist with the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning at IIT Madras, India. In his current role, he is working primarily on mainstreaming MOOCs within Higher Educational Institutions in India. He is also involved in the design and management of the technology stack and pedagogical design of the BSc program in Programming and Data Science offered by IIT Madras. His research interests are in the area of Online Instructional Design and Communities of Practice.
Shitanshu Mishra MGIEP UNESCO, India. Shitanshu is a learning and educational technology scientist with over ten years of experience. He works with the research and development division of UNESCO’s educational research institute, UNESCO MGIEP as a national ICT specialist. After completing his Ph.D. at the Educational Technology department in IIT Bombay (Mumbai, India) he worked with the Computer Science department at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA). His research areas include AI in Education, Multimodal Learning Analytics, Modeling Cognitive and Metacognitive strategies, and Technology Enhanced Learning of Disciplinary Practices.
Soumya Narayanan KLE Technological University Hubballi, India. Soumya is an associate professor at the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) at KLE Technological University, Hubballi. Her research interests include exploring methods to foster design thinking among students and investigating technologies and pedagogies to enhance learning.
Program Committee (alphabetical by first name)
Alice Mei Rong Chen, Soochow University, Taiwan
Anurag Deep, UNESCO MGIEP, India
Candace Walkington, SMU, Dallas, Texas, USA
Ceren Ocak, MSU, USA
Chandan Dasgupta, University of Twente, Netherlands
Deborah Dutta, IRMA, India
Durgaprasad Karnam, HBCSE, India
Hiroaki Ogata, Kyoto University, Japan
Huiyong Li, Kyushu University, Japan
James Planey, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign,USA
Mitchell Nathan, U. Wisconsin–Madison, USA
Robb Lindgren, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ramkumar Rajendran, IIT Bombay, India
Sahana Murthy, IIT Bombay, India
Sanjay Chandrashekharan, HBCSE, India
Victoria Abou Khalil, EPFL, Switzerland