BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Central BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250402T201333Z UID:001AD596-EA7B-4C01-9684-9FD6D94998EB DTSTART;TZID=US/Central:20250402T084500 DTEND;TZID=US/Central:20250402T100000 DESCRIPTION:2025 Spring IEEE OKC Webinar Series\n\nIEEE OKC invites you to join the event below\, organized by Oklahoma International Publishing\, as part of its 2025 Spring OkIP Conferences on Wednesday\, April 2\, 2025.\n \nThis virtual event is free of charge to IEEE Oklahoma City members. Plea se register ahead of time to receive the proper instructions for remote pa rticipation:\n\n>> Speaker:\nDr. Maiga Chang\nFull Professor\nAssociate De an\, Research & Innovation\nFaculty of Science and Technology\nAthabasca U niversity\, Canada\n\n>> Talk:\nBuilding Chatbot for Learning and Training \n\n>>> Abstract:\n\nOnline learning and teaching do not mean that putting course materials online and asking students to learn by themselves. It is important to provide students supports when they encounter questions abou t course content or materials. When students ask their question on a discu ssion forum in an online learning environment\, sometimes there may have n o one available at that time to help them due to time differences or study behaviors and needs – for instances some students may have family/child ren/baby and day job and they might not be able to do their study until la te night or weekends. This leads to an obvious conclusion that if a system was in place to provide an automated summary\, this could facilitate lear ning. Having an easily accessible system\, which can quickly provide respo nses\, allows students to get information that may have otherwise been dif ficult to find. In this talk\, I will explain how chatbots can be develope d and discuss three potential chatbot in education applications: (1) the A sk4Summary Moodle plugin (https://ask4summary.vipresearch.ca/#download) ac ts like an online tutor can automatically answers a student’s question w ith a summary assembled via matching and retrieving from the stored inform ation\; (2) a block-based\, visual editing environment to alleviate the bu rden of knowledge imposed on users wishing to implement chatbots in their use of training and/or as an automated first-level of support\; and (3) gu ardians living in MEGA World (https://megaworld.game-server.ca/)\, who pro vide individual students a way to get their questions explained and the in formation asked.\n\n>>> About the speaker:\n\nDr. Maiga Chang is Associate Dean\, Research & Innovation\, and Full Professor at Faculty of Science a nd Technology\, Athabasca University\, Canada. He is also Honorary Chair P rofessor at Multidisciplinary Academic Research Center\, National Dong Hwa University\, Taiwan. Dr. Chang is IEEE Senior Member and has been appoint ed as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2023 to 2025. He is also received Distinguished Researcher Award from Asia Pacific Society on Computers in Education (APSCE) in 2022.\nDr. Chang is now Vice Presiden t (2022~) of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IAS LE) and editors-in-chief (2019~) of Journal of Educational Technology & So ciety (Open Access SSCI in Quartile Q1 with rank 22/756 in Education & Edu cational Research category by Journal Impact Factor 4.595)\, editor-in-chi ef (2014~) of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (Op en Access ESCI in Quartile Q1 with rank 64/756 in Education & Educational Research category by Journal Impact Factor 3.3\, SCOPUS\, EI)\, and editor -in-chief (2020~) of Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technolog y (Open Access ESCI).\nHe is also an Executive Committee member of Asia-Pa cific Society for Computers in Education (2017~2028\, APSCE) and Global Ch inese Society for Computing in Education (2016~2025\, GCSCE)\, and Chair ( 2021~) of Educational Activities Committee\, IEEE Northern Canada Section. Dr. Chang is helping as a Steering Committee member (2020~) for Internati onal Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).\nDr. Chang has give n more than 160 talks and lectures in different events\; He also has (co-) authored more than 260 book chapters\, journal and international conferenc e papers. He is an IEEE member since 1996 and also a member of ACM (2001-2 017)\, AAAI (since 2001-2017)\, INNS (2004-2018)\, and Phi Tau Phi Scholas tic Honor Society.\nHis current research mainly focus on artificial intell igence\; natural language processing\; learning behaviour analysis\; learn ing analytics and academic analytics\; game-based learning\, training and assessment\; intelligent agent technology\; educational data mining\; comp utational intelligence\; health informatics and healthcare technology\, et c.\n\nCo-sponsored by: Pierre Tiako\n\nAgenda: \n08:55am - 09:00am Virtual Meeting Speaker Introduction\n\n09:00am - 09:45am Virtual Meeting Keynote \n\n09:45pm - 10:00am Virtual Meeting Q &A\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtoo ls.ieee.org/m/442785 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/442785 ORGANIZER:Pierretiako@yahoo.com SEQUENCE:31 SUMMARY:Building Chatbots for Learning and Training URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/442785 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>2025 Spring IEEE OKC Webinar Series</p>\n< p>IEEE OKC invites you to join the event below\, organized by Oklahoma Int ernational Publishing\, as part of its 2025 Spring OkIP Conferences on Wed nesday\, April 2\, 2025.</p>\n<p><br>This virtual event is free of charge to IEEE Oklahoma City members. Please register ahead of time to receive th e proper instructions for remote participation:</p>\n<p>&gt\;&gt\; Speaker :<br>Dr. Maiga Chang<br>Full Professor<br>Associate Dean\, Research &amp\; Innovation<br>Faculty of Science and Technology<br>Athabasca University\, Canada<br><br></p>\n<p>&gt\;&gt\; Talk:<br>Building Chatbot for Learning and Training</p>\n<p>&gt\;&gt\;&gt\; Abstract:</p>\n<p>Online learning and teaching do not mean that putting course materials online and asking stud ents to learn by themselves. It is important to provide students supports when they encounter questions about course content or materials. When stud ents ask their question on a discussion forum in an online learning enviro nment\, sometimes there may have no one available at that time to help the m due to time differences or study behaviors and needs &ndash\; for instan ces some students may have family/children/baby and day job and they might not be able to do their study until late night or weekends. This leads to an obvious conclusion that if a system was in place to provide an automat ed summary\, this could facilitate learning. Having an easily accessible s ystem\, which can quickly provide responses\, allows students to get infor mation that may have otherwise been difficult to find. &nbsp\;In this talk \, I will explain how chatbots can be developed and discuss three potentia l chatbot in education applications: (1) the Ask4Summary Moodle plugin (ht tps://ask4summary.vipresearch.ca/#download) acts like an online tutor can automatically answers a student&rsquo\;s question with a summary assembled via matching and retrieving from the stored information\; (2) a block-bas ed\, visual editing environment to alleviate the burden of knowledge impos ed on users wishing to implement chatbots in their use of training and/or as an automated first-level of support\; and (3) guardians living in MEGA World (https://megaworld.game-server.ca/)\, who provide individual student s a way to get their questions explained and the information asked.</p>\n< p>&gt\;&gt\;&gt\; About the speaker:</p>\n<p>Dr. Maiga Chang is Associate Dean\, Research &amp\; Innovation\, and Full Professor at Faculty of Scien ce and Technology\, Athabasca University\, Canada. He is also Honorary Cha ir Professor at Multidisciplinary Academic Research Center\, National Dong Hwa University\, Taiwan. Dr. Chang is IEEE Senior Member and has been app ointed as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2023 to 2025. He is also received Distinguished Researcher Award from Asia Pacific Soci ety on Computers in Education (APSCE) in 2022.<br>Dr. Chang is now Vice Pr esident (2022~) of International Association of Smart Learning Environment s (IASLE) and editors-in-chief (2019~) of Journal of Educational Technolog y &amp\; Society (Open Access SSCI in Quartile Q1 with rank 22/756 in Educ ation &amp\; Educational Research category by Journal Impact Factor 4.595) \, editor-in-chief (2014~) of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (Open Access ESCI in Quartile Q1 with rank 64/756 in Educatio n &amp\; Educational Research category by Journal Impact Factor 3.3\, SCOP US\, EI)\, and editor-in-chief (2020~) of Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology (Open Access ESCI).<br>He is also an Executive Comm ittee member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (2017~2028 \, APSCE) and Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (2016~2025 \, GCSCE)\, &nbsp\;and Chair (2021~) of Educational Activities Committee\, IEEE Northern Canada Section. Dr. Chang is helping as a Steering Committe e member (2020~) for International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Syst ems (ITS).<br>Dr. Chang has given more than 160 talks and lectures in diff erent events\; He also has (co-)authored more than 260 book chapters\, jou rnal and international conference papers. He is an IEEE member since 1996 and also a member of ACM (2001-2017)\, AAAI (since 2001-2017)\, INNS (2004 -2018)\, and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society.<br>His current research mainly focus on artificial intelligence\; natural language processing\; l earning behaviour analysis\; learning analytics and academic analytics\; g ame-based learning\, training and assessment\; intelligent agent technolog y\; educational data mining\; computational intelligence\; health informat ics and healthcare technology\, etc.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p><b r /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>08:55am - 09:00am Virtual Meeting&nbsp\; Speake r Introduction</p>\n<p>09:00am - 09:45am Virtual Meeting Keynote</p>\n<p>0 9:45pm - 10:00am Virtual Meeting Q &amp\;A</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR