Artificial Intelligence for Supporting Human Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age

Pedro Isaías (pedro.isaias@uab.pt) is an associate professor with habilitation at Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) in Lisbon, Portugal. Pedro is also an adjunct associate professor at the Information Systems & Technology Management School of The University of New South Wales (UNSW - Sydney), Australia. Previously he was an associate professor at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. At Universidade Aberta, he is currently responsible for several courses in the Information Systems areas. At Universidade Aberta, Pedro was director of the master degree program in Management / MBA and also director of the master degree program in Electronic Commerce and Internet for 10 years. He is co-founder and president of IADIS - International Association for Development of the Information Society, a scientific non-profit association. He holds a PhD in Information Management (in the specialty of information and decision systems) from the New University of Lisbon. Author of several books, book chapters, papers and research reports, all in the information systems area, he has headed several conferences and workshops within the mentioned area. He has also been responsible for the scientific coordination of several EU funded research projects. He is also member of the editorial board of several journals and program committee member of several conferences and workshops. Currently he conducts research activity related to MIS in general, and more specifically Learning Technologies, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation, e-Business and WWW related areas. He has more than 170 journal articles, book chapters and books to his credit and has received over 3811 citations resulting in an h-index of 31 (Google Scholar, June 2024).

Demetrios G. Sampson (sampson@unipi.gr) is a Professor of Digital Systems for Learning and Education, Director of the MSc Program on Digital Learning, and Director of the Research Laboratory DiLearn at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece. He has been a Professor and Director of Research at the School of Education, Curtin University in Australia (2015-2017) and a Visiting Professor in 8 Universities in 4 continents. He has been engaged in teaching and research in the field of Learning Technologies and Digital Education since 1996. For his research in this field, he is included in the list of the World's Top 2% Scientists in 2022 and 2023 in their fields according to the latest Stanford ranking based on Scopus data. He is the co-author of 312 books (2), journal articles (73), book chapters (57), and conference papers (180), and the editor of 100+ books (21), special issues in academic journals (30), and international conference proceedings (49), with more than 9200 citations (h-index: 44). He has received 10 Best Paper Awards in International Conferences on Learning Technologies. He has been a Keynote/Invited Speaker at 100+ International/National Conferences. He has been director, principal investigator and/or research consultant in 70 Research and Innovation projects He has supervised 180 honors and postgraduate students to successful completion. He has also developed the first Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on the use of Educational Data Analytics by School Teachers ("Analytics for the Classroom Teacher"), offered by the edX platform which has attracted more than 30.000 participants from 180 countries around the world since October 2016. He served as Editor-in-Chief of one of the first open-access journals in educational technology, the Educational Technology & Society Journal (2003-2018). He has also served or serves as a Member of the Steering Committee and/or Advisory and/or Editorial Board of 30 International/National Journals, in various leadership roles in 85 International Conferences, and at the Program Committee of 700 International/National Conferences. He is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award (July 2012) and named a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society in recognition of his contribution to the field of Learning Technologies. He is also the recipient of the Golden Nikola Tesla Chain Award of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) for "International outstanding achievements in the field of Engineering Pedagogy" (September 2018).

Dirk Ifenthaler (dirk@ifenthaler.info; www.ifenthaler.info) is the Department Chair of Economic and Business Education as well as Professor of Learning, Design and Technology at the University of Mannheim, Germany and UNESCO Co-Chair on Data Science in Higher Education Learning and Teaching at Curtin University, Australia. His previous roles include Professor and Inaugural Director at the Centre for Research in Digital Learning at Deakin University, Australia, Manager of Applied Research and Learning Analytics at Open Universities, Australia, and Professor for Applied Teaching and Learning Research at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He was a 2012 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Dirk's research focuses on the intersection of cognitive psychology, educational technology, data analytics, and organisational learning. His research outcomes include numerous co-authored books, book series, book chapters, journal articles, and international conference papers, as well as successful grant funding in Australia, Germany, and USA - see Dirk's website for a full list of scholarly outcomes at www.ifenthaler.info. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Technology, Knowledge and Learning (www.springer.com/10758). He received the 2016 and 2024 Outstanding International Research Collaboration Award from AERA (American Educational Research Association), the 2015 and 2021 Presidential Award from AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology), and the 2012 Outstanding Journal Article Award from AECT, as well as the 2006 Outstanding Dissertation Award by the University of Freiburg, Germany. He published more than 300 journal articles, book chapters and books and has received over 11,700 citations resulting in an h-index of 50 (Google Scholar, June 2024).

Pedro Isaías (pedro.isaias@uab.pt) 是葡萄牙里斯本的葡萄牙開放大學（Universidade Aberta）的一位具有資格的副教授。Pedro 同時也是澳大利亞新南威爾士大學（The University of New South Wales, UNSW - Sydney）資訊系統與技術管理學院的兼任副教授。之前，他曾擔任澳大利亞昆士蘭大學（The University of Queensland, Brisbane）的副教授。在葡萄牙開放大學，他目前負責多門資訊系統相關的課程。Pedro 曾擔任管理/MBA 碩士學位課程的主任，並且在電子商務和互聯網碩士學位課程中擔任主任長達 10 年。他是 IADIS - 國際資訊社會發展協會的共同創辦人及會長，這是一個科學性非營利組織。他擁有里斯本新大學的資訊管理博士學位（專攻資訊與決策系統）。作為資訊系統領域的多本書籍、書章、論文和研究報告的作者，他曾主辦多個相關領域的會議和研討會。他還負責多個歐盟資助的研究項目的科學協調工作。此外，他是多本期刊的編輯委員會成員，以及多個會議和研討會的程序委員會成員。目前，他的研究活動主要與管理資訊系統（MIS）相關，特別是學習技術、數據分析、商業智慧、數位轉型、電子商務和萬維網相關領域。他的學術成果包括超過 170 篇期刊文章、書章和書籍，並獲得超過 3811 次引用，h-index 為 31（Google Scholar，2024 年 6 月）。

Demetrios G. Sampson (sampson@unipi.gr) 是希臘比雷埃夫斯大學（University of Piraeus）數位系統系的數位學習與教育系教授、數位學習碩士課程主任及 DiLearn 研究實驗室主任。他曾在澳大利亞的科廷大學（Curtin University）擔任教育學院的教授和研究主任（2015-2017），並在四大洲的八所大學擔任訪問教授。自 1996 年以來，他一直從事學習技術和數位教育領域的教學和研究。根據最新的斯坦福排名，基於 Scopus 數據，他在 2022 年和 2023 年被列入全球前 2% 科學家的名單。他是 312 本書籍（2）、期刊文章（73）、書章（57）和會議論文（180）的共同作者，並編輯了 100 多本書籍（21）、學術期刊的特刊（30）和國際會議論文集（49），引用次數超過 9200 次（h-index: 44）。他在國際學習技術會議中獲得 10 次最佳論文獎。他曾在 100 多個國際/國內會議中擔任主題演講者或受邀演講者。他在 70 個研究與創新項目中擔任主任、主要研究者和/或研究顧問，並成功指導 180 名榮譽和研究生完成學業。他還開發了第一個針對學校教師的教育數據分析大規模開放在線課程（MOOC）「Analytics for the Classroom Teacher」，該課程自 2016 年 10 月以來吸引了來自 180 個國家的 30,000 多名參與者，並在 edX 平台上提供。他曾擔任教育技術領域首批開放獲取期刊之一《Educational Technology & Society Journal》的主編（2003-2018）。他還曾擔任或目前擔任 30 本國際/國內期刊的指導委員會和/或顧問和/或編輯委員會成員，並在 85 個國際會議中擔任各種領導角色，以及在 700 個國際/國內會議的程序委員會中任職。他是 IEEE C 的獲獎者。