Beschreibung
Autorenporträt
Rongxia Zhuang is an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University (BNU), China. She has been engaged in research on smart education, smart learning environment, educational technology applications in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), and the development, implementation, and assessment of TVET curriculum.Dejian Liu is Co-Dean of Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University, China. He is also Senior Engineer, graduated from the University of Kansas, USA and received a Ph.D. degree from Beijing Normal University in 2020. Currently working as Chairman and Executive Director at NetDragon Websoft Holdings, he also serves on the Board of Directors at Fujian TQ Digital, Inc., on the Board at Baidu, Inc., and as a Member of the Standing Committee at Fujian Science Association, and as Vice-Chairman of the Fujian Young Entrepreneur Association. He has received numerous awards, including Business Venture Hero award, Excellent Entrepreneur award, Youth Entrepreneurship Achievement award, and Science and Technology for Young People award. Demetrios Sampson is a Professor of Digital Systems for Learning and Education at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece and the Director of the MSc Program on "Digital Learning". He has been director, principal investigator and/or research consultant in 70 Research and Innovation projects with external funding at the range of 16 MillionEuro. He has supervised 180+ honors and postgraduate students to successful completion. He has developed and delivered the first Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on the use of Educational Data Analytics by School Teachers (Analytics for the Classroom Teacher), offered by the edX platform (a Harvard and MIT led global initiative) which has attracted more than 20.000 participants from 180 countries around the world since October 2016. Between 2018-2021, he led an international University-Industry Consortium (Learn2Analyse) that promotes professional development in Educational Data Literacy for Online Education & Training Professionals and Higher Education students, co-funded by the European Commission (Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance Program). He is the co-author of 350 articles in scientific books, journals, and conferences, and the editor of 90+ books, special issues in academic journals and international conference proceedings, with more than 7790 citations (h-index: 41). He has received 10 times Best Paper Award in International Conferences on Learning Technologies. He has been a Keynote/Invited Speaker in 100+ International/National Conferences. He is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award (July 2012) and named a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society in recognition of his contribution to the field of Learning Technologies. He is also the recipient of the Golden Nikola Tesla Chain Award of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) for "International outstanding achievements in the field of Engineering Pedagogy" (September 2018). Danimir Mandic is a Full Professor of Informatics and educational technology at the University of Belgrade in Serbia (from 2002) and a chief of Department of Didactics and Educational Technology. From 2015, he has been Dean at the Faculty of Education - University in Belgrade (Serbia) and a visiting professor in USA, Italy, France and UK. Danimir Mandic has published more than 150 scientific papers and 31 books in the area of Informatics and Educational Technology. He was a leader in three scientific projects: Educational software for students, Interactive multimedia classroom and distance education systems for higher education. He was a leader in scientific project: Evaluation of the Curriculum at the Teacher Training faculties in Serbia using modern technologies and distance education. He is the author of several innovations in education. He created multimedia software for learning
