Special Session 5

 

Digital Intelligence Technologies Empowering Teacher Professional Development


Description
This special session focuses on "Empowering Teacher Professional Development with Digital Intelligence Technologies," exploring how artificial intelligence and digital technologies are reshaping teacher roles and growth pathways. Addressing key directions including the application of national smart education platforms, human-AI collaborative teaching models, instructional innovation practices, and learning interaction behaviors, it delves into the mechanisms by which digital intelligence enhances teacher competencies. The session also examines smart education governance and healthy campus development, aiming to construct a technology-enhanced, human-centered ecosystem for teacher professional development that supports educators' growth and role transformation in the digital intelligence era.

Session organizers
Assoc. Prof. Jia Tao, Anhui Normal University, China
Prof. Lin Cui, Suzhou University, China
Dr. Peng Xi, Anhui Normal University, China

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
▪ Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Empowering High-Quality Education through the National Smart Education Platform
▪ Digital and intelligent technologies empower teaching innovation
▪ Innovation in New Teaching Models for Human-Machine Collaboration
▪ Digital Intelligence Education Empowers Technology Education
▪ Learning Interactions and User Engagement in the Context of Digital Intelligence
▪ Smart Education Governance and Regional Practices
▪ Digital and intelligent technologies empower healthy campuses

Submission method
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Introduction of session organizers

Senior Assoc. Prof. Jia Tao
Anhui Normal University, China


Tao Jia, female, Associate Professor at the School of Education Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Master's Supervisor, Visiting Scholar at Johnson University (USA), Expert in the China Electronics Society's “Electronic Information Talent Enhancement Project” Expert Database, Review Expert for the China Computer Design Competition, Adjunct Researcher at the Anhui Provincial Teacher Education Collaborative Innovation Center. Long-term research focuses on digital technology and teacher professional development, STEAM and maker education. She has led one key project funded by the Ministry of Education, one open project from a national key laboratory, four provincial-level projects, and two industry-sponsored projects, while participating in one National Social Science Fund project. She has edited one monograph and four textbooks, spearheaded three provincial teaching research projects, and received one Anhui Provincial Special Award for Online Teaching Achievements and one second prize in the Provincial Teacher Teaching Innovation Competition. She has published over 30 academic papers in journals indexed by SSCI, CSSCI, and others.

 

Senior Prof. Lin Cui (Dean of the School of Information Engineering)
Suzhou University, China


Cui Lin, female, serves as Dean and Professor of the School of Information Engineering at Suzhou University. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Cui is a Council Member of the Anhui Provincial Artificial Intelligence Society and serves as an adjunct master's supervisor at Anhui University of Technology and Anhui Normal University. She has been honored as an Anhui Provincial “Rising Star in Education,” an Anhui Provincial “Distinguished Teacher in Course-based Ideological and Political Education,” and an Anhui Provincial Top Talent in Higher Education. Her research focuses on data mining and analysis, personalized recommendations in smart education, and sentiment mining and analysis. She has led multiple projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Anhui Provincial Key R&D Program. She has published over 20 papers in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and holds more than 10 authorized invention patents and software copyrights.

 

Dr. Peng Xi
Anhui Normal University, China


Dr. Peng XiAnhui Normal University, China.Peng Xi, Lecture at School of Educational Science in Anhui Normal University, holds a PhD degree in Computer Science and Technology from University of Science and Technology of China. His research focuses on smart network and smart education enviroment. In the past three years, he has led two AnHui Higher Education Quality Projects and published several acadamic papers in journals indexed by SCI and EI.