IAALDE Session: International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Era

14:30-15:30 WEST

IAALDE is the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Era (www.alliancelss.com). Currently there are 12 societies in the alliance, including EATEL. IAALDE’s main objective is to advance scientific and practical understandings of how to teach, how learners learn, and how technological systems can more effectively support education, especially across academic societies. To that purpose, IAALDE member societies offer to host best papers from IAALDE sister societies at their own site; and facilitate additional cross-societal academic communication and collaboration.

In this IAALDE session at ECTEL 2023, the following IAALDE best paper will be presented:

Manav Rathod, Tony Tu and Katherine Sasaki: Educational Multi-Question Generation for Reading Comprehension – Proc. of the 17th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022), Association for Computer Linguistics.

The second part of this IAALDE session constitutes the final colloquium in an IAALDE-facilitated colloquium series on “Visions, Inspiration, Synergy and Transformation across IAALDE Societies (VISTAS): A Colloquium Series”. In this colloquium series, nine fellows from multiple IAALDE societies engaged in cross-societal conversation around this. In this part of the session, the goal is to identify broad current research themes for learning and technologies research, and specifically to identify multidisciplinary angles that may be covered by adjacent research communities.

In this part of the session, two IAALDE VISTAS fellows bring their thoughts to this discussion to ECTEL:

• Rafael Ferreira Mello
• Elaine Harada Teixeira de Oliveira

The fellows will talk about their own research and vision and speak to challenges identified in earlier conversations such as socio-technical design and human-data interaction. While their impulse talks aren’t necessarily from an EATEL-specific viewpoint, the goal of the ensuing discussion together with the present audience is to identify what of these challenges and how could be taken on by EATEL research.

Together with the audience, we will finally chart the challenges identified in this session, and research angles investigated by the EATEL community, as well as those where we’d be looking for multidisciplinary collaboration.