Keynote Speakers

DLCC2024

Dr. Nian-Shing Chen
Title: Revolutionizing Education with Pedagogical AI Agents
Abstract:In the age of Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI, educators must harness the potential of pedagogical AI agents to enhance their teaching practices. By mastering the design and deployment of these agents, teachers can tailor learning experiences to suit diverse student needs, guided by established learning theories and adaptive strategies. This approach not only facilitates personalized learning but also underscores the enduring importance of human teachers amidst the transformative impact of AI on education.
A key strength of LLMs lies in their ability to comprehend human language with depth and nuance, facilitating logical reasoning, planning, and execution of tasks. This capability has led to the assertion that anyone can become a programmer in the AI era. It empowers human teachers to collaborate with AI counterparts in crafting lesson plans using natural language. While human teachers focus on designing meaningful pedagogical content, AI agents assume the role of executing learning activities outlined in these plans. Acting as proxies for human teachers, AI agents extend the reach of teaching beyond physical constraints, enabling ubiquitous learning experiences.
In this presentation, I will delve into the conceptual framework and design principles for developing pedagogical AI agents. Through live demonstrations, I will showcase the versatility of these agents using a universal client, which leverages robotic interfaces and general-purpose computing devices, such as tablets or computers.

He ranked at the world number seven in the field of learning environments.

Short Bio: (https://www.nschen.net/Home)

Dr. Nian-Shing Chen is a Chair Professor in the Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences and Program of Learning Sciences at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan.
Professor Chen received the National Outstanding Research award three times in 2008, 2011, and 2015. He is ranked in second place on the Top Authors list by article count in Computers & Education. He is ranked number 4 on the top scholar list in the educational technology field based on an article published in the British Journal of Educational Technology. One of his papers published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International was awarded as the top-cited article in 2010.
Professor Chen is ranked third in the list of Social Sciences and Humanities Scientists in Taiwan. Based on AD Scientific Index 2023, Prof. Chen is ranked number 8 in Asia and is ranked number 103 in the world in Education Research. He is listed as World’s top 2% scientists in 2021, 2022, 2023 and in the list of „Lifelong Science Influence Rankings (1960-2022) by Stanford University.
Professor Chen was served as the Editor-in-Chief for Educational Technology & Society (ET&S) journal. He is also a golden core member of IEEE, a lifelong member of ACM, and the former Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology.

Soner Durmuş Prof. PhD, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University · Faculty of Education

DLCC2023

Pedro Isaias PhD is an associate profesor in Universidade Aberta, Portugal, was an associate professor at the Information Systems & Technology Management School of The University of New South Wales (UNSW – Sydney), Australia (2018-2023). Previously he was an associate professor at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Before moving to Australia, he served at the Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) in Lisbon, Portugal, where he was responsible for several courses and director of the master degree program in Management / MBA. Pedro was director of the master degree program in Electronic Commerce and Internet for 10 years. Pedro Isaias holds a PhD in Information Management (in the specialty of information and decision systems) from the NOVA University of Lisbon. Author of several books, book chapters, papers and research reports, all in the information systems area, he has headed several conferences and workshops within the mentioned area. He has also been responsible for the scientific coordination of several EU funded research projects. He is also member of the editorial board of several journals and program committee member of several conferences and workshops. Currently he conducts research activity related to MIS in general, and more specifically Learning Technologies, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation, e-Business and WWW related areas.
President of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) since 2001.At International Association for Development of the Information Society:
o    President of the association with more than 2,000 associate members, and 11 staff members;
o    Global management and strategic planning activities;
o    Responsible for the Scientific Advisory Board;
o    Co-ordinator of ISRLab (Information Society Research Lab);
o    Responsible for EU project coordination;
o    Responsible for EU project elaboration and proposals.

He is member of Australian Computer Society; ASCILITE;
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) from the UK (April 2018).
Supervisor of more than 60 Doctoral and Master Thesis and dissertations
He is member of over then 30 International Conferences’ and Workshops’ Program Committee Member
Keynote/Invited Speaker over then 20 conferences and workshop
Journal Review and editorial Boards of 5 highscoring journals and a  lot of Conference Proceedings, indexed in WoS and Scopus

Title of keynote lecture „AI in Education: ChatGPT and Beyond”

Natalii Morze, Full Professor, Dr hab. Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University Vice-Rector on IT (2009-2019), Professor of Department of Computer Science in Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine.

State expert of National ICT Program in Education, Elaboration of the National System of In-Service Teacher Training and School Heads Training according to ICT, Elaboration of the Teachers Technological  Standards on National Level, Senior Trainer of Word Intel program Teach to the future. Trainer of Microsoft program Cooperation learning. Elaboration of distance learning courses for teachers and students. Elaboration of State programme of computer science for professionals, high schools and universities. Elaboration of conception of implementation of computer science in education of Ukraine. Teachers trainer of computer science. Author of more than 350 publications, articles and monographes (70 books on e-learning, critical thinks, interactive methods, IT-teaching).

Title of keynote lecture „ChatGPT – how to turn AI into an effective assistant for a teacher?”

Filipe Carrera  – director of the Filipe Carrera International, Lda. was founded in 1992 and has since amassed extensive experience in consulting and training in over 50 countries across four continents, assisting organizations of various sizes in transferring knowledge to the inside and outside using our proprietary Knowledge Pills Methodology. We generated training content with the help of the knowledge holders to be transmitted, as well as training those persons to use multimedia to transfer their own information.

We have been working on digital projects in the areas of digital marketing, e-commerce, e-learning, communication, networking, leadership, and remote work since 1997.Filipe Carrera, our project’s appointed consultant, has vast experience in the digital environment. Filipe Carrera’s professional presentation follows: Expert and Board Member of E-Protraining Pte. Ltd (Singapore) owners of www.epromasters.com. Creator of the Knowledge Pills Methodology (KPM). Coordinator of the Post-Graduate course in Digital Marketing, IPAM (Lisbon, Oporto and Online). Coordinator of the Coordinator of Advance Program in e-Commerce, IPAM (Lisbon, Oporto and Online). Professor of Post Graduate programs at Universidade Europeia (Lisbon). Professor of Master and Post Graduate programs at ISEG, University of Lisbon. Professor of Post Graduate and MBA programs at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (Lisbon). Visiting Professor at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania. Invited Professor at IE Business School (Madrid), EADA Business School (Barcelona), ESERP Business School (Barcelona), Romanian American University (Bucharest), University Babeş-Bolyai (Cluj-Napoca), Constantin Brâncuși University (Targu Jiu), Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Quito), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (Quito) and Instituto Superior de Ciências Económicas e Empresariais – ISCEE (Cape Verde).

Title of keynote lecture „Enhancing Student Flexibility and Engagement in Online Higher Education: The Impact of Instructor-Created Video Materials”

DLCC2022

DLCC2021

Theo Hug, Dr. phil., is professor of educational sciences at the Department of Media, Society and Communication at the University of Innsbruck and coordinator of the Innsbruck Media Studies research group. His areas of interest include media education and media literacy, e-education and microlearning, theory of knowledge, methodology and philosophy of science. He is particularly interested in interfaces of medialization and knowledge dynamics as well as learning processes. Some of his recent work is focussing on instant knowledge, bricolage and didactics of microlearning.

http://www.hug-web.at/

Title of keynote lecture is FIVE THESES ON (DIS)COMFORT IN EDUCATIONAL
CULTURES OF DIGITALITY

Maria Barbas Patos Professor. She is a full professor at ESE-IPS and an invited associated professor with tenure at the Universidade Aberta (UAb). She’s also a member of the „Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers” research centre and a collaborative member of the Information and Society Department at FCT. She has a PHD Degree in Communication and Education Multimedia at Uab, a Pós-Doctorate by Universidade de Aveiro (UA) and a Tenure in Education with a speciality in eLearning by the UAb. – Expert in Ethics (all issues) and eSkills ambassador for jobs (2015-2016). Coordinator of the European Project KA2 “#TV T21 COMmunity# e-Skills, social inclusion and employability (intercultural dialogue in tourism)”. 2014, European Cooperation Scientific and Technical Research (e_COST) was nominated by the FCT as a member of Portugal (Management Committee) in the action TD1309 Play for Children with Disabilities (LUDI) and in the action, IC1208 Integrating devices and materials: a challenge for new instrumentation in ICT; – Invited Member of editorial writing at Symposia and International Magazine;
– Direction of publications, reviewer of articles, editorials collections and magazines; Pedro Matos is an invited lecturer at ESES and he holds an MsC in Education and Communication Multimedia (Scientific Areas: Educational Technologies) by Higher School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarem. Over the past few years, he has played several roles, such as trainer in the area of Photography, Project Development, Entrepreneurship, Graphic Edition and Multimedia for graduates, high school teacher; VET teacher and lecturing in the first cycle (bachelor).
He has been working in various national and international R&D funded projects as a researcher and educational content creator, specifically as a member of the KA2 European Project “#TV T21 COMmunity# e-Skills, social inclusion and employability (intercultural dialogue in tourism)”

Title of keynote lecture is “FLAVOURS IN EAD” AN INNOVATIVE CONCEPT AND APPROACH FOR AN INTUITIVE AND EFFECTIVE E-LEARNING COURSE

Antonio dos Reis PhD, Professor
He is  the President of AI9 – a Portuguese NGO to diffuse digital skills and social competencies
scientific coordinator, teacher and consulting adviser in e-learning multimedia projects. One of the best expert in area multimedia in education and virtual classes
Coordinator of research project Teacher´s skills for the school of the futures. Consulting adviser of the University for implement virtual classrooms. Consulting adviser of WeZupport, Sweden, for e-Campus global project. Move Nations Course, about 3D environments in education. Coordinator of post graduation course Pedagogic and didactic skills in e-learning and multimedia (2008/09). Coordinator of post graduation course in Pedagogic and didactic skills in e-learning, teacher at Azores University (2007/08). Teacher’s trainer of teacher trainers in Portuguese education Ministry. Distance learning platform, Webmaster and multimedia coordinator in 2006 ISEG UTL (Technical University Lisbon). Scientific Coordinator of pilot project The school of the future – Today. International conferences key speaker and conference chair at Azores – Online learning conference and Workshop 2008/2009. Education website coordinator at: www.thegraal.net. More than 500 videos of conferences and pedagogic contents, e-round tables and debates. Youtube Contents channel: www.youtube.com/user/antonodreis.

Moderator of the E-round table debate HOW DO WE HUMAN BEINGS LEARN ACCORDING TO PIAGET, AND HOW SHOULD WE TEACH AND LEARN TO BE A GOOD TEACHER AND A GOOD LEARNER

DLCC2020

Pedro Isaias PhD is an associate professor at the Information Systems & Technology Management School of The University of New South Wales (UNSW – Sydney), Australia. Previously he was an associate professor at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Before moving to Australia, he served at the Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) in Lisbon, Portugal, where he was responsible for several courses and director of the master degree program in Management / MBA. Pedro was director of the master degree program in Electronic Commerce and Internet for 10 years. Pedro Isaias holds a PhD in Information Management (in the specialty of information and decision systems) from the NOVA University of Lisbon. Author of several books, book chapters, papers and research reports, all in the information systems area, he has headed several conferences and workshops within the mentioned area. He has also been responsible for the scientific coordination of several EU funded research projects. He is also member of the editorial board of several journals and program committee member of several conferences and workshops. Currently he conducts research activity related to MIS in general, and more specifically Learning Technologies, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation, e-Business and WWW related areas.
President of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) since 2001.At International Association for Development of the Information Society:
o    President of the association with more than 2,000 associate members, and 11 staff members;
o    Global management and strategic planning activities;
o    Responsible for the Scientific Advisory Board;
o    Co-ordinator of ISRLab (Information Society Research Lab);
o    Responsible for EU project coordination;
o    Responsible for EU project elaboration and proposals.

He is member of Australian Computer Society; ASCILITE;
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) from the UK (April 2018).
Supervisor of more than 60 Doctoral and Master Thesis and dissertations
He is member of over then 30 International Conferences’ and Workshops’ Program Committee Member
Keynote/Invited Speaker over then 20 conferences and workshop
Journal Review and editorial Boards of 5 highscoring journals and a  lot of Conference Proceedings, indexed in WoS and Scopus

DLCC2019

Theo Hug, Dr. phil., is professor of educational sciences at the Department of Media, Society and Communication at the University of Innsbruck and coordinator of the Innsbruck Media Studies research group. His areas of interest include media education and media literacy, e-education and microlearning, theory of knowledge, methodology and philosophy of science. He is particularly interested in interfaces of medialization and knowledge dynamics as well as learning processes. Some of his recent work is focussing on instant knowledge, bricolage and didactics of microlearning.

http://www.hug-web.at/

Title of keynote lecture is „Robots as Friends, Co-Workers, Teachers, and Learning Machines – Metaphorical Analyses and Ethical Considerations”

Piet Kommers, Associate Professor, PhD. in the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Media, University of Twente. Professor ICT in Education UNESCO.His actual interest is media, learning and visual communication. From 1990 he is increasingly involved as partner and coordinator in European research projects based and continuous learning. His role in initiating higher education in Eastern Europe led to his UNESCO chair, followed by the award of honorary doctor by Capital Normal University in Beijing in 2000. Main recent functions: Committee Member for the Academy of Sciences; Communication and Organization, UT; Scientific Board Member for New Learning Projects. Ministry of Education, Singapore; Lector at Fontys University of Applied Sciences for the Integration of ICT in Education; Regular Visiting Professor for Human Factors in Multimodal Communication for the European PhD Academy IMPDET at Joen­suu University, Finland; Visiting Professor at the Institute of Educational Multimedia and Telematics; Univer­sity of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan; Member of the UNESCO Board Creative Media Interaction for a Better Future: Trends, Challenges and Priorities.

Title of keynote lecture is “Meta-Cognitive Representations for Deep Learning”

Natalii Morze, Professor, Dr hab. Vice Rector on IT, Chief of Department of Computer Science in Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine.

State expert of National ICT Program in Education, Elaboration of the National System of In-Service Teacher Training and School Heads Training according to ICT, Elaboration of the Teachers Technological  Standards on National Level, Senior Trainer of Word Intel program Teach to the future. Trainer of Microsoft program Cooperation learning. Elaboration of distance learning courses for teachers and students. Elaboration of State programme of computer science for professionals, high schools and universities. Elaboration of conception of implementation of computer science in education of Ukraine. Teachers trainer of computer science. Author of more than 300 publications, articles and monographes (70 books on e-learning, critical thinks, interactive methods, IT-teaching).

Title of keynote lecture „Big data in Education”

Antonio dos Reis PhD, Professor, PhD. The Graal Institute Director and scientific coordinator, teacher and consulting adviser in e-learning multimedia projects. Coordinator of research project Teacher´s skills for the school of the futures. Consulting adviser of the University for implement virtual classrooms. Consulting adviser of WeZupport, Sweden, for e-Campus global project. Move Nations Course, about 3D environments in education. Coordinator of post graduation course Pedagogic and didactic skills in e-learning and multimedia (2008/09). Coordinator of post graduation course in Pedagogic and didactic skills in e-learning, teacher at Azores University (2007/08). Teacher’s trainer of teacher trainers in Portuguese education Ministry. Distance learning platform, Webmaster and multimedia coordinator in 2006 ISEG UTL (Technical University Lisbon). Scientific Coordinator of pilot project The school of the future – Today. International conferences key speaker and conference chair at Azores – Online learning conference and Workshop 2008/2009. Education website coordinator at: www.thegraal.net. More than 500 videos of conferences and pedagogic contents, e-round tables and debates. Youtube Contents channel: www.youtube.com/user/antonodreis. Moodle platform administrator:http://thegraal.ccems.pt/.

Title of keynote lecture „500 Years around the world in the road of digital society”

Péter Körtesi Prof. h.c. Dr. University of Miskolc Faculty of Materails Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Physical Metalurgy, Metalforming and Nanotechnology. CEEPUS Ministers’ Prize of Excellence 2006, 2013 Szent-Györgyi Albert-Award, 2015 Professor Honoris Causa Petru Maior University of Tirgu-Mures, 2015. Coordinator of the CEEPUS Network HU-0028 since 2000 Local coordinator in the projects: Le-MATH: Learning Mathematics Through New Communication Factors LeMath (2012-14) 526315-LLP2012-CY-COMENIUS-CMP EUPA (2006-2008) Education Européenne en Administration Publique, projet No – 69682-IC-1-2005-1-ROERASMUS- MODUC EVML (2006-2008) European Virtual Laboratory of Mathematics, Leoneardo project Project No. 2006 – SK/06/B/F/PP – 177436 MATHEU 2004-2006 (MATHEU – Identification, Motivation and Support of Mathematical Talents in European School Comenius 2.1 project)

http://web.uni-miskolc.hu/files/6489/Kortesi_CV_EN.pdf

DLCC2018

Maria Barbas Patos Professor. She is a full professor at ESE-IPS and an invited associated professor with tenure at the Universidade Aberta (UAb). She’s also member of the „Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers” research centre and a collaborative member of the Information and Society Department at FCT. She has a PHD Degree in Communication and Education Multimedia at Uab, a Pós-Doctorate by Universidade de Aveiro (UA) and a Tenure in Education with speciality in eLearning by the UAb. – Expert in Ethics (all issues) and eSkills ambassador for jobs (2015-2016). Coordinator of the European Project KA2 “#TV T21 COMmunity# e-Skills, social inclusion and employability (intercultural dialogue in tourism)”. 2014, European Cooperation Scientific and Technical Research (e_COST) was nominated by the FCT as member of Portugal (Management Committee) in the action TD1309 Play for Children with Disabilities (LUDI) and in the action IC1208 Integrating devices and materials : a challenge for new instrumentation in ICT; – Invited Member of editorial writing at Symposia and International Magazine;
– Direction of publications, reviewer of articles, editorials collections and magazines; Pedro Matos is an invited lecturer at ESES and he holds an MsC in Education and Communication Multimedia (Scientific Areas: Educational Technologies) by Higher School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarem. Over the past few years, he has played several roles, such as trainer in the area of Photography, Project Development, Entrepreneurship, Graphic Edition and Multimedia for graduates, high school teacher; VET teacher and lecturing in first cycle (bachelor).
He has been working in various national and international R&D funded projects has a researcher and educational content creator, specifically as a member of the KA2 European Project “#TV T21 COMmunity# e-Skills, social inclusion and employability (intercultural dialogue in tourism)”

Keynote lecture titled: TRAINING IN DIGITAL LITERACY THE LABOUR MARKET: E-LEARNING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Natalii Morze, Professor, Dr hab. Vice Rector on IT, Chief of Department of Computer Science in Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine.

State expert of National ICT Program in Education, Elaboration of the National System of In-Service Teacher Training and School Heads Training according to ICT, Elaboration of the Teachers Technological  Standards on National Level, Senior Trainer of Word Intel program Teach to the future. Trainer of Microsoft program Cooperation learning. Elaboration of distance learning courses for teachers and students. Elaboration of State programme of computer science for professionals, high schools and universities. Elaboration of conception of implementation of computer science in education of Ukraine. Teachers trainer of computer science. Author of more than 300 publications, articles and monographes (70 books on e-learning, critical thinks, interactive methods, IT-teaching).

Title of keynote lecture DEVELOPING SMART-EDUCATION IN CONDITIONS OF DIGITIZATION

Antonio dos Reis (Portugal), Xabier Basogain (Spain), Olga Yakovleva (Russia)
GET SMART TEACHERS THROUGH DIGITAL SKILLS

David Richardson (Sweden)

TECHNOLOGY AT WORK: REMOTE SUPERVISION OF
TEACHING PRACTICE AT A SWEDISH UNIVERSITY

DLCC2016