Analysis and Design of Problems/Questions in the Digital Environment: The 14th Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning by Posing/Solving Problems/Questions

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Problems/questions are indispensable in the teaching and learning process. Adequate problems/questions give essential motivation for learning. Problems/questions with adequate quality in various testing conditions are believed to enable teachers to assess individual students' capability and readiness of transfer in specific domain knowledge. Despite this, there are still many areas in need of systematic investigation to promote knowledge and skills facilitated by a problems/questions approach, including learning by problem solving and/or generation. For instance: what criteria constitute as adequate test item quality (in addition to frequently cited psychometric index like item difficulty, discrimination index); how to best assess a learner's capability with appropriate quality level within constraints (e.g., an optimal number of items, time limitation, etc.); any feasible metadata heuristics and/or techniques for problems/questions selection; any promising alternative strategies for compiling a sufficient number of problems/questions; any scaffolding techniques for question-generation implementation and instructional diffusion and so on.

From ICCE 2006 to 2020, we held a series of 13 workshops where we paid special attention to "questions/problems" in technology-enhanced learning. We have established a SIG of "Educational Use of Problems/Questions in Technology-Enhanced Learning" in 2015. This 14th workshop is the seventh workshop organized by the SIG. This continuous workshop will provide a good and timely opportunity to present and share the results and issues about "problems/questions" and grow the SIG community.

We cordially invite presenters and participants who are interested in "problems/questions" in computer-supported education/learning environment. We would like to discuss the many facets and potential uses of "problems/questions" from a technological, computational, pedagogical, psychometrics, theoretical, sociological and administrative point of views. In addition to oral presentation sessions for research papers, we have a demonstration session for the computer-supported environments.

All workshop participants are required to register for the main conference, but there will not be additional workshop fee.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• Problem/question generation/authoring/posing
• Learning by problem/question-posing
• Problem/question variation/changing
• Problem analysis and evaluation
• Structurization of domain knowledge
• Problem/question selection
• Metadata or Ontology of problems
• Metacognition in problem-solving or problem-posing
• Test theory
• Instructional intervention for problem/question-authoring in classrooms
• Affordances of the digital environment for scaffolding questioning and question-answering

Workshop Program

The time zone will be based on GMT+7: Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.

Presentation Instructions

• For full paper presentation, 20 minutes will be allocated for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Please keep the presentation within the time limit set.
• For short paper presentation, 10 minutes will be allocated for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Please keep the presentation within the time limit set.
• For demonstration, 20 minutes will be allocated. Demonstrate your computer-supported environment and then interact with the audience.
• The video conferencing platform for online presentations and participation is Zoom. For the best conference experience, please download Zoom Client for Meetings onto your laptop or desktop via https://zoom.us/download (note that the Web-browser or App version does not offer all functionalities, e.g., regarding the use of breakout rooms). We recommend that you try your microphone and webcam before joining the session (Testing computer or device audio; Testing your video).
• You need an account for the ICCE 2021 website. You receive an email to activate your account and create a login password after the registration is completed.
• Login to ICCE 2021. The Virtual ICCE Interactive Program provides links to sessions. More detailed information is available at: Instructions for Virtual ICCE 2021

Workshop Organizers

• Yusuke Hayashi (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Tsukasa Hirashima (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Kazuaki Kojima (Teikyo University, Japan)
• Tomoko Kojiri (Kansai University, Japan)
• Jon Mason (Charles Darwin University, Australia)
• Tanja Mitrovic (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
• Fu-Yun Yu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

PC Members (tentative)

• Sergei Abramovich (State University of New York, USA)
• Toshihiro Hayashi (Kagawa University, Japan)
• Tatsuhiro Konishi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
• Hidenobu Kunichika (Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Nguyen-Thinh Le (Humboldt-Univeristat zu Berlin, German)
• Kazuhisa Seta (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• Takahito Tomoto (Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan)
• Tomoya Horiguchi (Kobe University, Japan)
• Chun-Ping Wu (National University of Tainan, Taiwan)

Past workshops: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th