Jane Yau, Author at EduTec Science

Mar22024 by Jane YauNo Comments

2nd GREAT Consortium Meeting in Copenhagen – 28-29 Feb 24

🎉 Celebrating One Year of GREAT - Games Realising Effective & Affective Transformation - EU & UKRI-funded project! Thanks to our SGI partner Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen (& Tim Garder), we had the wonderful opportunity to be in Copenhagen for our second in-person project consortium meeting. It was a fantastic experience as all partners joined for 2 productive days of interactive workshops, capacity-building activities, interesting conversations and delicious meals. Special thanks to our associate partners Ahmed Tlili, who joined us all the way from Beijing Normal University, China, and Byron Bunt, who joined us virtually from Northwest University, South Africa! During the meeting, we deepened our analysis of our upcoming case studies to reach the promised scientific, societal and economic impact. Our first case study has been a hugely successful one with 400k citizens…

Mar22024 by Jane YauNo Comments

GREAT presentation at UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning

Invited talk

On 26 Feb 2024, Jane had the opportunity to present the EU & UKRI-funded GREAT project (Games Realising Effective and Affective Transformation) at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg, Germany. From January to July 2024, Jane is a visiting researcher at this institute, where she will collaborate with UNESCO on publications on the use of technologies to facilitate education for sustainable development especially targeting climate change education. This fits very well in line with the GREAT project and provides many excellent opportunities on both sides to learn from each other's work.

Nov142023 by Jane YauNo Comments

GREAT Project Presentation at a brainstorming event on diversity and research data

Invited talk

A virtual brainstorming event named “The Impact of Diversity on Research Quality: Exploring the Knowledge Gap” was organized by the Berlin Institute of Health, Einstein Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 30 October - 1 November 2023. In addition to project dissemination and sharing with researchers our project aims, objectives and progress, Jane Yau discussed and presented how the use of games can be used to increase the reach of diverse citizens to improve research quality, in a short presentation. Two types of games will be deployed in the project - short quiz ones and long collaborative ones. The games will be co-designed with participants and different stakeholders concerned with the climate emergency from various perspectives. Once the games have been co-designed, they will be ready and the short…

Sep232023 by Jane YauNo Comments

Jane at the 13th Brazilian-German Frontiers of Science and Technology Symposium

Event, Invited talk

From 21-24 September, 2023, Jane was invited to present the project GREAT: Games Realising Effective and Affective Transformation at the 13th Brazilian-German Frontiers of Science and Technology Symposium in Bremen, Germany. Jane was invited to present in the Healthcare session of the Symposium via invitation only. Each Symposium brings together 60 scientists from a wide range of disciplines (30 each from Germany and Brazil). The conference format allows for the exchange of ideas across disciplinary as well as national boundaries and, provides opportuniites for future binational collaborations and networking. This is funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The aim of the talk was to make potential collaborations on the use of computer games to improve and prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Jane participated in a 15-minute presentation followed…

Jul182023 by Jane YauNo Comments

GREAT project featured in the Global Young Academy magazine

Press

DIPF member and GREAT project manager, Dr. Jane Yau, is also a member of the Global Young Academy (2022-27), where its mission is giving a voice to young scientists around the world. In 2022-2023, she was the co-editor of the Connections Magazine, which is an annual magazine of the Global Young Academy, featuring peer-reviewed articles of its members. This year’s magazine explores the theme “Innovative Technologies for improved well-being”. The magazine is additionally circulated at working events attended by the Global Young Academy office team, for example, those organised by The World Academy of Sciences and European Young Academies etc. As co-Editor-at-Large, Jane also wrote an article about “Technological innovations for advancing quality education, gender equality and climate action”. The following excerpt has been taking from the article. Quality Education…

Jul122023 by Jane YauNo Comments

GREAT project presentation

Invited talk

On 10-11 July 2023, a representative of the GREAT project was invited to give a plenary talk at the “Young Minds in Technology Advancements” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which is the Science and Education Leadership Training event for young scientists at the Malaysian Young Academy. For the purpose of this event, Jane developed a plenary talk titled “Achieving 21st Century Education and Skills to advance Sustainable Development Goals”, which was presented by Dr. Sri Fatmawati from the Global Young Academy, as Jane could not be in-person at the event. The plenary talk included the following: - What 21st century skills and sustainable development goals are. - How education needs to be transformed to advance sustainable development. - How technologies can increase access to education. - Some disadvantages of technologies such as addiction,…

Jun92023 by Jane YauNo Comments

GREAT Project Presentations at Int. Conf. of Young Scientists, 2023

Conference, Project

Horizon Europe & UKRI #GREATProjectGG "Games Realising Effective and Affective Transformation" dissemination activities were underway at the International Conference of Young Scientists, held in conjunction with the Global Young Academy Annual General Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda, 5-9 June, 2023. As part of the Science Education for Youth workshop, Jane shared the project with Global Young Academy members and also external guests. Jane also gave a lightning talk to a larger audience in the main session of the conference. Follow on Twitter for more updates: @GREATProjectGG

Apr272023 by Jane YauNo Comments

HIKOF-DL Presentation at the University Future Festival

Conference, Event

Jane, as the project-coordinator, presented HIKOF-DL in the Track - AI & Technology, at the University Future Festival on 27.4.2023. Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, we made use of artificial intelligence and learning analytics technologies for both lecturers’ and students’ online teaching and learning gains. Using these technologies, the team designed and implemented novel ways of providing highly-informative competence driven feedback (hicof) to large classes of university students (≈1000) for three innovative online assignments. We built machine learning models to automatically assess the assignments and reduced the time required for staff to manually grade them. High-informative feedback provides correct solutions, possibilities for improvement, hints on self-regulation and effective learning strategies (Wisniewski, Zierer and Hattie, 2020; Winne & Hadwin, 2008), and on two different levels - Feed Up (concerning their understanding of the learning goal) and Feed Forward (concerning their next steps in their learning process) (Hattie & Timberley, 2007). Competence driven feedback is feedback that is given to students based on…

Apr222023 by Jane YauNo Comments

HIKOF-DL – 4th Committee Meeting with Industry Members

Event, Transfer Activity

The fourth Committee meeting with industry members of the research project "HIKOF-DL" took place on March 31, 2023. HIKOF-DL is a project funded by the Hessen Ministerium für Digital Strategie und Entwicklung, which aims to provide high-informative feedback for a large number of university students, and automatic assessment, in order to reduce the lecturers' workload. The meeting yielded exciting results and discussions, showcasing the progress and potential of this innovative study. The meeting kicked off with an introduction by Prof. Dr. Hendrik Drachsler, who emphasized the significance of artificial intelligence (AI) in education. Dr. Joshua Weidlich, a key researcher in the project, then presented the research design of the study. The study population was divided into an experimental group and a control group to investigate two aspects: how students respond…

Mar32023 by Jane YauNo Comments

GREAT Project kick-off on 1-2 March

Citizens science, Game, Project, Project meeting

A fruitful and successful kick-off meeting for the GREAT project (Games Realising Effective and Affective Transformation, co-funded by EU and UKRI) with all consortium partners was held on 1-2 March. DIPF project members (Hendrik, Jane, Dana) hosted the 2-day kick-off meeting, which covered all work package activities for the coming 12 months. The project uses games to engage citizens and collect anonymised data regarding climate crisis attitudes and opinions. These are then anonymously analysed and sent to policy-makers, with the aim of influencing them to make even better climate emergency policies more suited to citizens' needs. Two different types of games will be tested: (1.) With simple quiz games on mobile phones - this can reach high numbers of users and thus large data volumes can be generated. The games will…