The 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Education (AI4EDU @ IJCAI 2021) - Deadline May 30, 2021

[Zitao Liu]

Dear colleagues and researchers,

The 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Education (AI4EDU)

Deadline submission: May 30, 2021

http://ai4ed.cc/workshops/ijcai2021

As part of The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21)

https://ijcai-21.org/, August 21-26, 2021, Montreal, Canada

Introduction

Technology has transformed over the last few years, turning from futuristic ideas into today’s reality. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of these transformative technologies that is now achieving great successes in various real-world applications and making our life more convenient and safe. AI is now shaping the way businesses, governments, and educational institutions doing things and is making its way into classrooms, schools and districts across many countries.

Objective

This workshop will focus on introducing research progress on applying AI to education and discussing recent advances of handling challenges encountered in AI educational practice.

Topics of interests

We encourage keynote speeches on a broad range of AI domains for education. Topics of interest include (in no particular order) but are not limited to following:

• Emerging technologies in education
• Evaluation of education technologies
• Immersive learning and multimedia applications
• Implications of big data in education
• Self-adaptive learning
• Individual and personalized education
• Intelligent learning systems
• Intelligent tutoring and monitoring systems
• Automatic assessment in education
• Automated grading of assignments
• Automated feedback and recommendations
• Big data analytics for education
• Analysis of communities of learning
• Computer-aided assessment
• Course development techniques
• Data analytics & big data in education
• Mining and web mining in education
• Learning tools experiences and cases of study
• Social media in education
• Smart education
• Digital libraries for learning
• Education analytic approaches, methods, and tools
• Knowledge management for learning
• Learning analytics and educational data mining
• Learning technology for lifelong learning
• Tracking learning activities
• Uses of multimedia for education
• Wearable computing technology in e-learning
• Smart classroom
• Dropout prediction
• Knowledge tracing

The symposium solicits paper submissions from participants (2–6 pages). Abstracts of the following flavors will be sought:

1. research ideas
2. case studies (or deployed projects)
3. review papers
4. best practice papers
5. lessons learned.

The paper should be formatted to the standard IJCAI 2021 template. The author kit can be found at https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit.

Please submit your paper to:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4eduijcai2021

For more questions about the workshop and submissions, please send email to liuzitao [at] 100tal [dot] com.

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: May 30, 2021
• Notification: June 15, 2021
• Workshop date: August 21, 2021
• Workshop format: Virtual (online) event

Organizing Committees

• Zitao Liu (TAL Education Group, China)
• Richard Tong (Squirrel AI Learning, USA)
• Xiangen Hu (University of Memphis, USA)
• Jiliang Tang (Michigan State University, USA)
• Hang Li (TAL Education Group, China)
  

Program Committees

• Carles Sierra (Spanish National Research Council, Spain)
• Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Kenneth D. Forbus (Northwestern University, USA)
• Victor Lu (Beijing Normal University, China)
• Art Graesser (University of Memphis, USA)
• Bruce M. McLaren (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  

Contact

Visit the official website of the workshop for additional details.

http://ai4ed.cc/workshops/ijcai2021

If you have questions, please send us an e-mail to: liuzitao [at] 100tal [dot] com.

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Dr. Zitao Liu | Head of Engineering, Xueersi 1 on 1 | TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) | http://www.zitaoliu.com