Doctoral Student Forum (DSF)

This Doctoral Student Forum (DSF) will be held in the conjunction with GCCCE 2021, aiming to provide an opportunity for doctoral students to present, discuss and receive feedback on their work-in-progress research from their peers and a panel of established researchers in the related areas. All accepted submissions will be published in the GCCCE 2021 Doctoral Student Forum proceedings.

The DSF has three major components: short lecture, presentation and discussion, and private mentoring session. The first two components are open to all registered GCCCE 2021 participants and the last component only allows the students who have their DSF paper accepted and the DSF chairs and mentors to participate.

In the short lecture, different topics upon availability and time limitation like how to create an elevator pitch and how to prepare a high-quality journal paper would be delivered for students. Students will present their research progress in front of a panel of mentors and DSF audience and they will be required to answer questions from the audience and the mentors. They will also receive immediate feedback and recommendations from the mentors. At the end, in the private mentoring session, students will be matched to mentors according to their work’s research area and mentors’ expertise. They will have opportunity to discuss in more details on their research directions, potential changes and improvements, contributions, publication venues, and even their academic life plan with mentors on the one-on-one basis in private.

DSF also encourages and looks forward to seeing the student and the mentor to work and collaborate further on the follow-up research publication and dissemination so their relationship can be continued for many, many years!

The DSF is organized to bring together doctoral students working in the following areas:

  • Learning Sciences & Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
  • Mobile, Ubiquitous & Contextual Learning
  • Joyful Learning, Educational Games & Digital Toys
  • Technology in Higher Education & Adult Learning, and Teachers' Professional Development
  • Technology-Enhanced Language and Humanities Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence in Education & Smart Learning Environments
  • Learning Analytics & Assessments
  • STEM & Maker Education
  • Educational Technology: Innovations, Policies & Practice

Students should only submit the work in which they are primary investigators/contributors. The work can be in any phase in a research path like conceptual idea and plan, theoretical model, app/system/tool/instrument development, evaluation/assessment/experiment design, data collection and analysis, findings and discussion, and academic publication preparation. Students should not submit any work that has already been published in conference/journal.

According to the research topic, phase, and result an accepted DSF paper has, its student author may be invited to submit his or her extended and/or more completed paper to various publication venues, e.g., International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (indexed in ESCI, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, etc., https://igi-global.com/ijdet) and Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology (Open Access without article processing fee for authors, ESCI,  https://tc.computer.org/tclt/bulletin/).

Submission Requirements and Method

We welcome all interested doctoral students to submit their work related to the above themes to the DSF.

Requirements:

  • Cover (with the proposed thesis title, the supervisor name and his/her contact information, as well as the author’s name and contact information).
  • Thesis proposal (not more than 5 pages, aligning with the GCCCE paper format), including the following elements:
    • Research aim/ objectives
    • Research background
    • Research methodology
    • Current milestone of the research or the results attained so far
    • Upcoming work

The above two materials (Cover and Thesis Proposal) should be put in one MS Word or PDF file for submission. All submissions should be done with EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gccce2021.

Program committee

Executive Chair:

CHANG Maiga, Athabasca University

Co-Chair:

ZOU Di, The Education University of Hong Kong

PC:

LIAO Xian, The Education University of Hong Kong
SUN Jerry Chih-Yuan, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
LIU Fung Ming Christy, The Education University of Hong Kong
TSAI Ming Hsin, Asia University
LIU Yichun, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy & Science
LIU Yiqi, The Education University of Hong Kong
YANG Jie Chi, Central University
CHUI Hin Leung, The Education University of Hong Kong
CHEN Ru-Shan, Chihlee University of Technology
TARNG Wernhuar, Tsing Hua University
WANG Lixun, The Education University of Hong Kong
LAM Wai Man Winnie, The Education University of Hong Kong
CHENG Kwok Shing Gary, The Education University of Hong Kong
JENG Hi-Lian, Taiwan University of Science and Technology
TSE Ka Ho, The Education University of Hong Kong
CHEN Ming-Puu, Taiwan Normal University
JIANG Lianjiang, The Education University of Hong Kong
SUN Daner, The Education University of Hong Kong
FU Qingke, Huzhou University
FANG Felicia, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
CHANG Shao-Chen, Taiwan Normal University
HSU Ting-Chia, Taiwan Normal University
WONG Wing-Kwong, Yunlin University of Science and Technology
LAI Chiu-Lin, Taiwan University of Science and Technology
SONG Yanjie, The Education University of Hong Kong
ZHANG Ling, The Education University of Hong Kong
SHIH Ju-Ling, Central University
Lee SING-Chien, Sunway University

Important Dates:

Forum Paper Submission Deadline: 29 March 2021
Forum Paper Acceptance Notification: 31 May 2021
Forum Paper's Camera-Ready Copy Due: 21 June 2021
Forum Authors Registration Due: 15 August 2021 (Early Bird Registration Due: 15 July 2021)

Proposal Submission:

TBC