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Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Speaker: Prof. Chee-Kit Looi

Affiliations: The Education University of Hong Kong, China

Prof. Chee-Kit Looi

Biography: Professor Looi obtained his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research focuses on learning sciences, computer-supported collaborative learning, mobile learning, AI in education, and computational thinking. He has had published more than 120 papers in international journal papers, as well as over 50 books or chapters, and produced 160 refereed international conference papers. Professor Looi has given more than 90 keynote speeches, and plenary and invited talks at international conferences and institutions. His research has had a high level of influence on educational practices. His work on rapid collaborative learning was cited in the 2010 US National Educational Technology Plan as a key example of technology-enabled innovation of significant impact. Professor Looi is a Fellow of the International Society of Learning Sciences, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. During his stint at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Professor Looi was the founding head of the Learning Sciences Lab, the first research centre devoted to the study of the sciences of learning in the Asia-Pacific region. He served as the President of the Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education from 2017 to 2019.

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Title: Reimagining Collaboration for Learning in an Era of Hybrid Human–AI Intelligence

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Prof. Eric Tsui

Biography: Eric Tsui is former Associate Director of the Behaviour and Knowledge Engineering (BAKE) Research Centre and currently a Senior Project Fellow at the Educational Research Centre at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is the coordinator of the Hong Kong MIKE award and a Vice President of the Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society. A recipient of many Knowledge Management and E-Learning international awards including the Knowledge Management Award for Excellence in 2021 and the QS Wharton Reimagine Education Gold Award (Asia) in 2015, Professor Tsui was twice listed as an exemplary/outstanding academic in PolyU Annual Reports in the last 8 years.

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Speaker: Prof. Eric Tsui

Affiliations: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Speaker: Prof. Jon-Chao Hong

Affiliations: National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taiwan

Prof. Jon-Chao Hong

Biography:Jon-Chao Hong is currently working as a life-long research professor at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). As the director of Digital Game-based Learning Laboratory (GBL), his team has developed more than 20 Apps for learning domain knowledge as well as thinking skill, such as “CompputUp,” “Picasso” and “AIoT games for developing imagination and thinking skills with various domain-knowledge learning collaboratively. Additionally, his team has also developed more than 10 immersive VR in skill development, such as fire and earthquake escaping, Jazz drum, etc.. Currently, his researches have been focused on how scaffolding strategies (prompts) can teachers support students to collaborate AI tools to enhance students domain-knowledge learning, creativity and imagination thinking. In line with this, he organizes AI workshops for exploring nature science, creating poem, math learning, sustainability learning and so on. In addition, he has published a number of academic articles in international journals. In recent four years, he has more than 60 articles published on SSCI journals. He has received the Outstanding Research Prize from Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan. In 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, he was ranked as the top 2% scientists rated by Sandford University. In the 2025 list of GoogleGPS, he also was ranked the top 0.5% in Education area. In the academic communities, he also serves the Chairperson of International Exhibition for Young Inventors, and the Chief Executor of iSTEAM-PowerTech contest, Taiwan Exhibition for Young Inventors and GoSTEAM (i.e., intellectual manufacturing) contest.

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Title: Teaching students to use various Prompt Strategies to scaffold thinking and learning

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