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Prof. Matthew Ohland (IEEE Fellow)
Purdue University, USA
Matthew Ohland is the Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor and Associate Head of Engineering Education at Purdue
University. He earned Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the
University of Florida, M.S. degrees in Materials Engineering and
Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
and a B.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in Religion from Swarthmore
College. He Co-Directs the National Effective Teaching Institute
(NETI) with Susan Lord and Michael Prince. His research has been
funded by over USD 20M, mostly from the United States National
Science Foundation. Along with his collaborators, he has been
recognized for his work on longitudinal studies of engineering
students with the William Elgin Wickenden Award for the best
paper published in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008,
2011, and 2019 and the best paper in IEEE Transactions on
Education in 2011 and 2015, multiple conference Best Paper
awards, and the Betty Vetter Award for Research from the Women
in Engineering Proactive Network. The CATME Team Tools developed
under Dr. Ohland’s leadership and related research have been
used by over 1,450,000 students of more than 20,000 faculty at
more than 240 institutions in 87 countries, and were recognized
with the 2009 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering
Education Courseware and the Maryellen Weimer Scholarly Work on
Teaching and Learning Award in 2013. Dr. Ohland received the
Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education
from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for
his leadership of that project. He is a Fellow of ASEE, IEEE,
and AAAS. He has received teaching awards at Clemson and Purdue.
Dr. Ohland is an ABET Program Evaluator and an Associate Editor
of IEEE Transactions on Education. He was the 2002–2006
President of Tau Beta Pi.
Speech Title: Monitoring and Improving Student Team
Experiences
Abstract: There are many reasons to put students in teams
– teaching them to work in teams, the learning benefits of
collaboration, the diversity benefits of finding out other
students’ perspectives, and the ability to provide a deeper
level of feedback on the smaller number of assignments submitted
by student teams are among them. For all these benefits, having
students work in teams introduces other issues for faculty to
manage – from forming teams to dealing with teams in crisis to
evaluating how much each student contributed to assignments
submitted as a team. CATME has helped many faculty form and
manage teams, and has also enabled research suggesting better
methods of managing student teams – research that has
implications for the workforce as well. The talk will include a
discussion of the challenges of managing virtual teams. |
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Prof. Susan Lord (IEEE Fellow)
University of San Diego, USA
Susan M. Lord is Professor
and Chair of Integrated Engineering at the University of San
Diego (USD). She earned a B.S. with distinction from Cornell
University in Materials Science and Electrical Engineering (EE)
and the M.S. and Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University. She
co-directs the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) with
Matt Ohland and Michael Prince. Her research focuses on the
study and promotion of diversity in engineering including
student pathways and inclusive teaching. Her research has been
sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation
(NSF). Dr. Lord is among the first to study Latinos in
engineering and coauthored The Borderlands of Education: Latinas
in Engineering with Dr. Michelle Camacho. Dr. Lord is a Fellow
of the IEEE and ASEE and is active in the engineering education
community including serving as General Co-Chair of the Frontiers
in Education Conference, President of the IEEE Education
Society, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Education (ToE) and the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE).
She and her coauthors received the 2011 and 2019 Wickenden Award
for the best paper in JEE and the 2011 and 2015 Best Paper
Awards for the IEEE ToE. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a
sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching
and doing research. She is on the USD team implementing
"Developing Changemaking Engineers", an NSF-sponsored
Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is
the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award for
"contributions to the development of more inclusive and
innovative undergraduate teaching in electrical and computer
engineering".
Speech Title: Enhancing
Inclusivity in Online Engineering and Computing Education
Abstract:
How can we educate students to be effective in the
workplace when they graduate? How can we attract a broader range
of students to engineering and computing? Given COVID-19 and the
worldwide discussion of structural inequality, it is imperative
that we find ways to make more students welcome in our online
classrooms. This presentation will draw on research to examine
engineering and computing pedagogy and suggest high-level issues
that impact participation. Dr. Lord will explore strategies for
making more students feel welcome in engineering and computing
classrooms with a focus on the online environment. |
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Prof. Anant Agarwal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Anant Agarwal is the
Founder and CEO of edX and Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science at MIT. Prof. Anant won the Maurice Wilkes
prize for computer architecture, and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson
prizes for teaching. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Harold
W. McGraw, Jr. Prize for Higher Education, which recognized his
work in advancing the MOOC movement. As a CEO of a global
nonprofit, Anant is helping to transform traditional education,
removing the barriers of cost, location and access. edX is
reimagining the possibilities of education, providing the
highest-quality, stackable learning experiences including the
groundbreaking MicroMasters® programs. Additionally, he is a
recipient of the Padma Shri award from the President of India
and was named the Yidan Prize for Education Development Laureate
in 2018.
Speech Title: Online Education in the New Normal
Description: edX CEO and MIT Professor, Anant Agarwal, reflects
on online education in the new normal of COVID-19. He'll discuss
what has changed already and what will change in the coming
months (and even years) and share insights around how this both
impacts and expedites his vision for the future of blended
education. |
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Prof. Piet Kommers
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Dr. Piet Kommers is an early pioneer in media for cognitive- and
social support. His doctoral research explored methods for
hypertext and concept mapping in learning. Since 1982 he
developed educational technology for teacher training. His main
thesis is that technology is catalytic for human ambition and
awareness. His main function is associate professor in the
University in Twente, The Netherlands and adjunct/visiting
professor in various countries. He taught more than fifteen
bachelor-, master- and PhD courses and supervised more than 30
PhD students. He instigated and coordinated the NATO Advanced
Research Workshop on Cognitive Technologies in 1990 and a large
series of Joint European Research Projects in: authoring
multimedia, web-based learning, teacher education, virtual 3d
worlds, constructivist learning, social media, web-based
communities and international student exchange. UNESCO awarded
his work in ICT for Education in Eastern Europe with the title
of Honorary Professor. The Capital Normal University in Beijing
awarded his work with the title of Honorary Doctor. He is member
of advisory boards in ministries of education and academia of
sciences in Singapore, Finland and Russia. Piet Kommers is the
initiator of the international journal for web-based communities
and overall chair of the IADIS conferences on societal
applications of ICT. Since the late nineties he gave more than
40 invited and keynote lectures at main conferences in the
fields of education, media and communication. His books and
journal articles address the social and intellectual
transformations at each transition from “traditional” into the
“new” media. Instead of regarding media as extrapolating,
supplanting, vicarious or even disruptive, Piet’s view is that
new media elicit and seduce both individuals and organizations
to reconsider human nature and challenge existential awareness
at that very moment. His workshop templates and experiences have
been implemented into the UNESCO IITE reports, policy briefings
and Master Course. The books and journal articles of Piet
Kommers reach the level of 5012 citations and the h-index of 30.
He was recently nominated by seventeen countries for the
prestigious 2017 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for
the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in
Education.
Speech Title: Smart Education in the Post Covid Era
Abstract: New technologies like Data-Mining based upon
Social Media, Machine Learning and Biometric Data through
Pattern Matching; they quickly conquer its role in Marketing,
Advertising, Job Finding etc. This keynote lecture informs you
on the educational- and learning paradigms that can benefit from
them as well. The best prediction is that making educational
systems smarter, without expliciet visions on how the human
players need to develop additional cognitive skills are likely
to fail already in the early stages of adoption and
dissemination. This is the main reason that Education can no
longer ignore students' and teachers' needs to develop the
emergent 21st Century Skills. During this lecture you will
experience fundamental questions on the essence of human
learning and how we as teachers are confronted with the issue of
meta-learning and critical pedagogy.
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