Jerry Chih-Yuan Sun (jerrysun@nycu.edu.tw) is a Distinguished Professor in the Institute of Education (Division of eLearning)/Center for Teacher Education at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, where he leads the Interactive Learning Technology and Motivation Lab (see http://ILTM.lab.nycu.edu.tw). He holds a doctoral degree in education and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Southern California. His major research interests are integrating various types of innovative technology-enabled feedback, including IRS, EEG bio-feedback, and online smart feedback, as well as investigating how these learning environments influence students’ motivation. In 2016 and 2021, Dr. Sun received the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award for Young Scholars’ Research Excellence and Outstanding Research Award from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), respectively. His recent projects have focused on the development of interactive feedback technologies and the relevant teaching strategies, and investigated the effect on students’ motivation.
Sherry Y. Chen (sherry@cl.ncu.edu.tw) is currently a Chair Professor at Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Taiwan and a Visiting Professor in the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University, UK. In 2010 and 2017, she was granted an Outstanding Scholar Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship and Ministry of Science and Technology. Her main research interest follows her PhD work to investigate how to develop individualized information space that can accommodate users’ individual differences, including collaborative learning, digital libraries, game-based learning, mobile learning, and web-based learning. She has more than 150 publications in these areas.
Hui-Chun Chu (carolhcchu@gmail.com) is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Management at Soochow University, where she also serves as the chairman. Dr. Chu serves as an editorial board member and a reviewer for more than 15 academic journals. Her research interests include mobile and ubiquitous learning, game-based learning, flipped learning, technology-assisted healthcare education, AI in medical diagnosis and education, and knowledge engineering in education. Dr. Chu has published more than 155 academic papers, including 68 academic journal papers, of which 44 are published in well-recognized SSCI and SCI journals. Owing to her distinguished academic performance and service in e-learning, she received the Annual Young Scholars Outstanding Researcher Award–Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2014. In addition, she received the Outstanding ICT Elite Award in 2020 and the 2022 K. T. Li Women’s Outstanding Research Award. She has also served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (SSCI, Q1) since 2015, and was the guest editor of Interactive Learning Environments (SSCI, Q1) in 2013 and 2016.
Yih-Lan Liu (elaineliu@nycu.edu.tw) is currently a Professor in the Institute of Education/Center for Teacher Education at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. She specializes in parent-child interaction, adolescent social development, and adjustment. With a focus on anti-school bullying, she leverages virtual reality (VR) technology to create transformative interventions for safer school environments. By simulating bullying scenarios in realistic VR environments, she gains valuable insights into the dynamics of bullying and aims to develop effective strategies to promote positive bystander interventions.
Ken-Zen Chen (kenzenchen@nycu.edu.tw) is currently an Associate Professor in the Institute of Education/Center for Teacher Education at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Dr. Chen has broad research interests & backgrounds in the areas of educational technology, learning sciences, big-data analytics in education, & curriculum & instruction. Starting 2016, Dr. Chen collaborates with Dr. Barbara Oakley to transform her famous “Learning How To Learn” MOOC to be a series of culturally responsive MOOCs for Chinese-speaking learners and won a great success.
Shih-Jou Yu (logotowa@gmail.com) is currently a postdoctoral research scholar and adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of Education/Center for Teacher Education at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Her major research interests are integrating interactive technologies and personalized/intelligent feedback to examine learners’ motivation and cognitive load for both formal and informal curricula. Interactive technologies include wearable technologies, augmented reality, virtual reality, and chatbot.
Chiung-Fang Chang (cfchang.edu@gmail.com) is currently a postdoctoral scholar and adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of Education at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Her research project is to investigate the effects of group regulation combined with virtual reality on students’ motivation and learning outcomes. Past research has covered the influence of teacher motivation and social-emotional competency, such as social goal orientations and self-efficacy, on teacher-student interaction and teacher psychological adjustment. Dr. Chang’s research interest is in using learning sciences and technological innovation to promote positive learning experiences.