BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Central BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T150839Z UID:CAF60619-51F5-4FE7-9022-9091A3ED7931 DTSTART;TZID=US/Central:20260401T085500 DTEND;TZID=US/Central:20260401T100000 DESCRIPTION:2026 Spring IEEE OKC Webinar Series\n\nIEEE OKC invites you to join the event below\, organized by Oklahoma International Publishing\, as part of its 2026 Spring OkIP Conferences on Wednesday\, April 1\, 2026.\n \nThis virtual event is free for IEEE Oklahoma City members. Please regist er ahead of time to receive the proper instructions for remote participati on:\n\n>> Speaker:\nDr. Maiga Chang\nFull Professor\nAssociate Dean\, Rese arch & Innovation\nFaculty of Science and Technology\nAthabasca University \, Canada\n\n>> Talk:\nBuilding Chatbot for Supporting Learning and Traini ng\n\n[This talk will be replayed due to numerous requests from those who missed it last year\, and also to share it with a new audience]\n\n>>> Abs tract:\n\nOnline learning and teaching do not mean that putting course mat erials online and asking students to learn by themselves. It is important to provide students supports when they encounter questions about course co ntent or materials. When students ask their question on a discussion forum in an online learning environment\, sometimes there may have no one avail able at that time to help them due to time differences or study behaviors and needs – for instances some students may have family/children/baby an d 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 pla ce to provide an automated summary\, this could facilitate learning. Havin g an easily accessible system\, which can quickly provide responses\, allo ws students to get information that may have otherwise been difficult to f ind. In this talk\, I will explain how chatbots can be developed and discu ss three potential chatbot in education applications: (1) the Ask4Summary Moodle plugin (https://ask4summary.vipresearch.ca/#download) acts like an online tutor can automatically answers a student’s question with a summa ry assembled via matching and retrieving from the stored information\; (2) a block-based\, visual editing environment to alleviate the burden of kno wledge imposed on users wishing to implement chatbots in their use of trai ning and/or as an automated first-level of support\; and (3) guardians liv ing in MEGA World (https://megaworld.game-server.ca/)\, who provide indivi dual students a way to get their questions explained and the information a sked.\n\n>>> About the speaker:\n\nDr. Maiga Chang is Associate Dean\, Res earch & Innovation\, and Full Professor at Faculty of Science and Technolo gy\, Athabasca University\, Canada. He is also Honorary Chair Professor at Multidisciplinary Academic Research Center\, National Dong Hwa University \, Taiwan. Dr. Chang is IEEE Senior Member and has been appointed as an IE EE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2023 to 2025. He is also rec eived Distinguished Researcher Award from Asia Pacific Society on Computer s in Education (APSCE) in 2022.\nDr. Chang is now Vice President (2022~) o f International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE) and edi tors-in-chief (2019~) of Journal of Educational Technology & Society (Open Access SSCI in Quartile Q1 with rank 22/756 in Education & Educational Re search category by Journal Impact Factor 4.595)\, editor-in-chief (2014~) of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (Open Access E SCI in Quartile Q1 with rank 64/756 in Education & Educational Research ca tegory by Journal Impact Factor 3.3\, SCOPUS\, EI)\, and editor-in-chief ( 2020~) of Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology (Open Acc ess ESCI).\nHe is also an Executive Committee member of Asia-Pacific Socie ty for Computers in Education (2017~2028\, APSCE) and Global Chinese Socie ty for Computing in Education (2016~2025\, GCSCE)\, and Chair (2021~) of E ducational Activities Committee\, IEEE Northern Canada Section. Dr. Chang is helping as a Steering Committee member (2020~) for International Confer ence on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).\nDr. Chang has given more than 160 talks and lectures in different events\; He also has (co-)authored mo re than 260 book chapters\, journal and international conference papers. H e 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 S ociety.\nHis current research mainly focus on artificial intelligence\; na tural language processing\; learning behaviour analysis\; learning analyti cs and academic analytics\; game-based learning\, training and assessment\ ; intelligent agent technology\; educational data mining\; computational i ntelligence\; health informatics and healthcare technology\, etc.\n\nCo-sp onsored by: Pierre Tiako\n\nAgenda: \n08:55am - 09:00am Virtual Meeting Sp eaker Introduction\n\n09:00am - 09:45am Virtual Meeting Keynote\n\n09:45pm - 10:00am Virtual Meeting Q &A\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org /m/549832 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/549832 ORGANIZER:Pierretiako@yahoo.com SEQUENCE:35 SUMMARY:Building Chatbots for Supporting Learning and Training [Replay- Apr il 1\, 2026] URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/549832 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>2026 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 2026 Spring OkIP Conferences on Wed nesday\, April 1\, 2026.</p>\n<p><br>This virtual event is free for IEEE O klahoma City members. Please register ahead of time to receive the proper instructions for remote participation:</p>\n<p>&gt\;&gt\; Speaker:<br>Dr. Maiga Chang<br>Full Professor<br>Associate Dean\, Research &amp\; Innovati on<br>Faculty of Science and Technology<br>Athabasca University\, Canada<b r><br></p>\n<p>&gt\;&gt\; Talk:<br>Building Chatbot for Supporting Learnin g and Training</p>\n<p>[This talk will be replayed due to numerous request s from those who missed it last year\, and also to share it with a new aud ience]</p>\n<p>&gt\;&gt\;&gt\; Abstract:</p>\n<p>Online learning and teach ing do not mean that putting course materials online and asking students t o learn by themselves. It is important to provide students supports when t hey encounter questions about course content or materials. When students a sk their question on a discussion forum in an online learning environment\ , sometimes there may have no one available at that time to help them due to time differences or study behaviors and needs &ndash\; for instances so me students may have family/children/baby and day job and they might not b e able to do their study until late night or weekends. This leads to an ob vious conclusion that if a system was in place to provide an automated sum mary\, this could facilitate learning. Having an easily accessible system\ , which can quickly provide responses\, allows students to get information that may have otherwise been difficult to find. &nbsp\;In this talk\, I w ill explain how chatbots can be developed and discuss three potential chat bot in education applications: (1) the Ask4Summary Moodle plugin (https:// ask4summary.vipresearch.ca/#download) acts like an online tutor can automa tically answers a student&rsquo\;s question with a summary assembled via m atching and retrieving from the stored information\; (2) a block-based\, v isual editing environment to alleviate the burden 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) guardians living in MEGA World (https://megaworld.game-server.ca/)\, who provide individual students a wa y 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 Science and Technology\, Athabasca University\, Canada. He is also Honorary Chair Pro fessor at Multidisciplinary Academic Research Center\, National Dong Hwa U niversity\, Taiwan. Dr. Chang is IEEE Senior Member and has been appointed 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.<br>Dr. 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 &amp \; Society (Open Access SSCI in Quartile Q1 with rank 22/756 in Education &amp\; Educational Research category by Journal Impact Factor 4.595)\, edi tor-in-chief (2014~) of International Journal of Distance Education Techno logies (Open Access ESCI in Quartile Q1 with rank 64/756 in Education &amp \; Educational Research category by Journal Impact Factor 3.3\, SCOPUS\, E I)\, and editor-in-chief (2020~) of Bulletin of Technical Committee on Lea rning Technology (Open Access ESCI).<br>He is also an Executive Committee member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (2017~2028\, APS CE) and Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (2016~2025\, GCS CE)\, &nbsp\;and Chair (2021~) of Educational Activities Committee\, IEEE Northern Canada Section. Dr. Chang is helping as a Steering Committee memb er (2020~) for International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (I TS).<br>Dr. Chang has given more than 160 talks and lectures in different events\; He also has (co-)authored more than 260 book chapters\, journal a nd international conference papers. He is an IEEE member since 1996 and al so a member of ACM (2001-2017)\, AAAI (since 2001-2017)\, INNS (2004-2018) \, and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society.<br>His current research mainl y focus on artificial intelligence\; natural language processing\; learnin g behaviour analysis\; learning analytics and academic analytics\; game-ba sed learning\, training and assessment\; intelligent agent technology\; ed ucational data mining\; computational intelligence\; health informatics an d healthcare technology\, etc.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p><br /><b r />Agenda: <br /><p>08:55am - 09:00am Virtual Meeting&nbsp\; Speaker Intr oduction</p>\n<p>09:00am - 09:45am Virtual Meeting Keynote</p>\n<p>09:45pm - 10:00am Virtual Meeting Q &amp\;A</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR