Track 11. Artificial Intelligence and Smart Learning Environments (AISLE)

Track Program Chairs

Nian-Shing Chen

National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

(CO-ORDINATOR)

Ronghuai Huang

Beijing Normal University, China

Kinshuk

University of North Texas, USA

Patricia A. Jaques Maillard

Programa de Pós-graduação em Computação Aplicada (PPGCA) – UNISINOS, Brazil

Track description and topics of interest

Broadly defined, the Artificial Intelligence and Smart Learning Environments represent a new wave of educational systems, involving an effective and efficient interplay of pedagogy, technology and their fusion towards the betterment of learning processes. Various components of this interplay include but are not limited to:

Pedagogy/didactics: instructional design, learning paradigms, teaching paradigms, environmental factors, assessment paradigms, social factors, policy

Technology: emerging technologies, innovative uses of mature technologies, interactions, adoption, usability, standards, and emerging/new technological paradigms (open educational resources, learning analytics, cloud computing, smart classrooms, etc.)

Fusion of pedagogy/didactics and technology: transformation of curriculum, transformation of teaching behaviour, transformation of learning, transformation of administration, transformation of schooling, best practices of infusion, piloting of new ideas.

A learning environment can be considered smart when the learner is supported through the use of adaptive and innovative technologies from childhood all the way through formal education, and continued during work and adult life where non-formal and informal learning approaches become primary means for learning. Smart learning environments are neither pure technology-based systems nor a particular pedagogical approach. They encompass various contexts, in which students (and perhaps teachers) move from one context to another. So, they are perhaps overarching concept for future academia. This perspective has the potential to overcome some of the traditions of institution based instruction towards lifelong learning. AISLE track will explore various dimensions of the application of artificial intelligence and the emerging smart learning environments, such as what makes a learning environment smart, challenges in the design and implementation of such environments in multiple and heterogeneous contexts, pedagogical and technological underpinnings, and the validation issues.