University of Zurich, Switzerland
Philipp Gonon studied Law and Journalism from 1974
until 1976 at the University of Fribourg,
Switzerland. Afterwards he continued studying
Pedagogy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland,
and at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. From
1986 until 1992 he became research assistant and
lecturer at the Institute of Pedagogy of the
University of Bern, Switzerland where he finished
his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 1997. From
1999 until 2004, Gonon was appointed to Full
University Professor at the Chair of Vocational and
Operational Further Education at the University of
Trier in Germany. Since 2004, Gonon has held the
Chair of Vocational Education and Training and
Vocational Teacher Training at the University of
Zurich, Switzerland. Gonon has done research about
Georg Kerschensteiner, the relation of schooling and
vocation and about the European educational reforms.
He specialised in the areas of historical and
international comparative educational research. In
addition, Gonon does research in quality assurance
and evaluation, modularization in Vocational
Education and he publishes about Philosophy and
Theory of Vocational Education.
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Jon-Chao Hong has received his doctoral degree in
Education from the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, and is currently working as a
Chair professor in the department of industrial
education at National Taiwan Normal University
(NTNU). As the director of Digital Game-based
Learning Laboratory (GBL), he has developed 9 web
games, 24 educational Apps and VR for skill training
and language learning.
As the secretary general of Taiwan Creativity
Development Association, he also organizes several
creative contests relevant to STEAM, such as
PowerTech Contest to invite elementary, junior and
senior high school students to produce robots or
miniatures in the morning and using these to compete
in the afternoon to ensure students’ hands-on
creation without parents or teachers’ assistance. As
the executive secretary of International Exhibition
for Young Inventors (IEYI), he also promotes the
innovative contest to give students an opportunity
to stimulate their science inquiry abilities, and
also cultivated students’ creativity and thinking
attitude of STEAM. In addition, he has published a
number of academic articles in international
journals related to digital game-based learning and
thinking skills and creativity about 45 articles on
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals and
received the Outstanding Research Prize from
Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan.
Abstract: Considering the theoretical background for VR designing, our lab adapted a “mirror neuron system” (i.e., playing piano with a paper keyboard, then to transferring to the real piano to practice that can save practice time) to skill transfer; and provided scaffolding (i.e., to provide guidance before actions and feedback after wrong actions), to build correct procedural and safe knowledge in VR skill training. For instance, VR-Jazz-Drum which applies mastery learning theory to play the Jazz drum, players can use it to practice rhythm or create their own melody. VR-Fire-Escaping, which applies embodied cognition theory to design fire scenarios for users to practice, then anchoring their conditional response to transfer learning effect on fire escape. VR-Car-Detailing, which involves designing procedures and safe guidance for users to practice and assess, then transfers learning to real car detailing. VR-Sense of Danger, which designs how to avoid accident happen in relation to wellhouse to experience the consequence of inappropriate behavior. Besides VR design, we have also developed some Apps for collaborative learning, for example, applying connectome model to design a teamwork game--Picasso game to develop learners’ imaginativeness and creativity in composition; applying implicit cognition theory to design a computational thinking board game— Comput-Up to discipline students’ strategic thinking and domain knowledge.
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Prof Dr Piet Kommers is one of the early pioneers in Educational Technology for Learning since the rise of Computer-Based Instruction. His work for NATO, UNESCO, the Asian Development Bank and the European Commission encouraged him to consider societal and political factors for the further evolution of learning technologies. His work on metacognitive knowledge representation methods gave him the basis for A.I. in student autonomy and will further scaffold the integration of CHAT-GPT in Higher Education. His lectures on ‘A.I. and the Geopolitical Landscape’ provide pragmatic guidance for teachers, policy makers and corporate learning architects.
Abstract: My lecture will be built on my recent book: “Sources for a Better Education”. Its target is the quality of didactic practices when a teacher arrives at a good level of professional experience and asks, ‘how can I become an even better teacher?’ What does it imply to be an ambitious teacher in the era of arising ChatGPT, Virtual Reality and Learning Analytics? The mainstream innovations in Secondary and Higher Education are 1. learners’ metacognitive awareness, 2. the 21st century skills and 3. thematic integration among the pillarized subject domains in curricula so far. STEAM is the attempt to guide students in problem solving and creative thinking; it is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. This lecture sketches the main line in educational and pedagogical evolution in the 20th century and opens the mind for knowledge architectures and adequate representations. It offers the antecedents for ‘conceptual thinking’ by asking: ‘what an idea implies when it migrates into another application domain?’ Even for experienced teachers, it is a challenge to add the conceptual analogy to didactic scenarios. However, once witnessed students’ growing capacity to ‘think about the unknown’ it is a true incentive for continuing along the lines of epistemic alertness and aiming the further transfer of what was learnt before.
King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Thailand
Prachyanun Nilsook is an Professor at the Division of Information and Communication Technology for Education, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Thailand. He currently works in the field of ICT for Education and Vocational Education Technology Research Centre. He is a member of Professional Societies in the Association for Educational Technology of Thailand (AETT)
Abstract: Generative AI is something that is designed to be able to create new things. By relying on existing data sets with algorithms that quickly turns text into images, audio, video, and new information. It has become a tool that is used in every industry. Many fields are using it to generate new ideas that cannot be achieved using traditional methods. While the education circle talks about bringing creativity into reality by calling it imagineering, if Generative AI is used as a tool for learning and teaching by integrating it with the imagineering process. There will be a new paradigm in educational management. It will make students' imaginations lead to creativity, creating new things and becoming innovators of the future.