Keynote Speakers


Prof. Chee-Kit Looi
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


Chee-Kit Looi is Professor of Education at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is currently the Co-Director of the Centre for Research and Development in Learning at NTU. His research interests are in the areas of the learning sciences, computer-supported collaborative learning, mobile learning and computational thinking. He is the PI or co-PI of several research projects funded by the National Research Foundation and the Ministry of Education, Singapore.

He is a member of the Core Expert Group who worked on developing the framework for assessing Collaborative Problem Solving in OECD PISA 2015. He is special consultant to the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University. Chee-Kit is a Committee Member of the Academic Committee of the Education Informatization Strategy Research Base (Beijing), Ministry of Education, China. He is also a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the national doctoral UPGRADE programme in Sweden.

Chee Kit is a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Society on Computers in Education. He is a founding member of the Global Chinese Society of Computers in Education, and served as the President of the Global Chinese Society of Computers in Education from 2017 to 2019.




Prof. Maiga Chang
Athabasca University, Canada

Dr. Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Canada. He is IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Chang has been appointed as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2023 to 2025 and also received Distinguished Researcher Award from Asia Pacific Society on Computers in Education (APSCE) in 2022. Dr. Chang is now Chair (2018~2023) of IEEE Technical Community of Learning Technology (TCLT), Executive Committee member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (2017~2024, APSCE) and Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (2016~2025, GCSCE), and Vice President (2022~) of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE). He is also editors-in-chief (2019~) of Journal of Educational Technology & Society (Open Access SSCI) and has given more than 135 talks and published more than 250 conference papers, journal papers, and book chapters.