Li, Y., Li, N., Yu, L., Liang, H., Wang, R., Ma, M., & Lim, G. (2024-2026). Ministry of Education industry-university cooperative education project: Industrial Internet XR Education Lab. 教育部产学合作协同育人项目:工业互联网XR教育实验室
Li, N et al., (2024-2027). Jiangsu Province community education characteristic brand construction project: AI+ meta-universe community residents digital literacy improvement training course construction project. 江苏省社区教育特色品牌建设项目：AI+元宇宙社区居民数字素养提升培训课程建设项目
XJTLU TDF Project Title: Exploration of the Role of AI-based Chatbots in Supporting Students’ Learning of Programming and Similar Subjects. Team member: Hai-Ning Liang, Jinhee Kim, Yushan Pan, Erick Purwanto
Li, N., Chen, Y., Huang, L., & Zhang, X. (2024-2025) Ministry of Education industry-university cooperative education project: Intelligent manufacturing gamification teaching innovation: the application of MATLAB in practical problem solving. 教育部产学合作协同育人项目:智能制造游戏化教学创新：MATLAB在实际问题解决中的应用
May 29, 2024. One of the Project Leaders – Dr. Svetoslav Georgiev – presented some of the research project’s interim findings at the XJTLU Annual Learning and Teaching Colloquium 2024.
June 14, 2024. The project leaders submitted a manuscript for the special edition on “Moving Artificial Intelligence Scholarship” in the African Journal of Inter/Multidisciplinary Studies.
Conference: Fan, P., Purwanto, E., Li, N., Wang, J., Tay, T. T., Wang, L., & Wang, Q. (2024). Unlocking the Potential of Competition-Based Learning: A Case Study of Kaggle in Big Data Analytics Education 2024 10th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication (ICSCC).
Existing outcomes: a talk was given at the 2024 Pedagogic Research Conference on Technology and AI in Learning and Teaching.
2024 XJTLU SURF, award number: 000000000339, project title: A Guide to Utilising Multimodal Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence for Enhancing Student-Centred Active Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
SEDA Research and Evaluation Small Grants 2024, Project title: An Educational Developer’s Guide to Multimodal Learning and Generative AI (artificial intelligence). Principal investigators: Dr Tunde Varga-Atkins & Dr Sam Saunders, University of Liverpool, Sum awarded: £1,000.00
2024 Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China Programme – General Programme 2024年度江苏省高等学校自然科学研究面上项目
2024 Humanities and Social Science Program of Ministry of Education of PRC (MoE) Young Scientists Fund: Theoretical construction and empirical research on artificial Intelligence promoting fair allocation of project-based learning resources2024年教育部人文社会科学青年基金：人工智能促进项目式学习资源公平分配的理论构建与实证研究
Research Scales:
PSPJS Scale: Click this link to see the full scale, which is open for public use.
Li, N., Kim, J., Lee, S.S., Wang, J., Li, B., & Detrick, R. (2024, March). Can AI be a supportive emotional partner for university students?, In-person oral presentation. The 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Chengdu, China.
Detrick, R., Wang, J., Li, B., Kim, J., & Li, N. (2024, May). GenAI’s role in academic writing: student perspectives. Virtual oral presentation. The 9th Education Innovation Conference, Suzhou, China.
Li, N., Kim, J., Lee, S.S., Wang, J., Li, B., & Detrick, R. (2024, May). Designing emotional AI to reduce university students’ academic stress. In-person oral presentation. EdVenture: Exploring Innovation in Higher Education, Suzhou, China.
Detrick, R., Kim, J., Li, N. (2024, July). Academic writing and the impact of student-generative AI interactions. Virtual oral presentation. 2024 10th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication (ICSCC), Bali, Indonesia.
Li, N., Kim, J., Lee, S.S., Wang, J., Li, B., & Detrick, R. (2024, September). University students’ AI emotional partner. In-person oral presentation. Chinese Psychological Association Educational Psychology Committee 2024 academic annual conference, Tianjin, China.
Research and Manuscript under-review:
Kim, J., Yu, S., Fan, L., Detrick., R., & Li, N. (Under review). Students’ perception of Generative AI-assisted collaborative argumentation.
Kim, J., Lee, S. S., Detrick., R., Wang, J., & Li, N. (Under review). Students-Generative AI interaction patterns and its impact on academic writing.
Research and Manuscript in preparation:
(Journal article) Socially shared regulation of learning and Generative AI: Opportunities to support socially shared regulation
(Book chapter) Collaborative learning with GenAI: GenAI-powered collaborative argumentation. In A. ElSayary & A. Olowoselu (Ed.), GenAI-Driven Education and Research: Ethics, Innovation, and the Future of Learning
Publications: “Integrating Virtual Reality into Classroom-as Organization Learning Design: Experimental Case Study” was published in The International Journal of Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems (IJDATICS) which features the basic version of the prototype that the research project aims to enhance by mixing AI tools with VR digital content (see pages 13-14-15)
Immersive Learning Tools: An account with Uptale VR immersive platform has been secured(www.uptale.io)
Presentations: The prototype will be presented at EdVentures on Thursday, 30th May in Taicang
Project 18: A quasi-experimental scenario-based study of the effect of using AI tools on self-regulation of learning
Funding: A mobility grant has been awarded by French German University to support the project in January- February 2025.
Click thisRC4AIED websiteto see more update outcomes & projects
(The Research Centre for AI and Education was launched on December 22, 2023. The Academy of Future Education within Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) will provide the start-up fund. The website content will be constantly updated as we expand, with new members and ideas coming in.)
Research Centre
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Project 2: AI and Game-based Learning
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Project 5: AI as a Design Partner for Learning
Exhibition showcases how AI spider interacts with synthesised nature
Project 8: AI and Teaching Materials
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Project 9: AI and Childcare Quality Evaluation
The invited talk was conducted in 西南大学，西南实验幼儿园，& 巴蜀幼儿园 in April 2024.
Project 10: AI and Assessment
Conference: Fan, P., Purwanto, E., Li, N., Wang, J., Tay, T. T., Wang, L., & Wang, Q. (2024). Unlocking the Potential of Competition-Based Learning: A Case Study of Kaggle in Big Data Analytics Education 2024 10th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication (ICSCC).
Existing outcomes: a talk was given at the 2024 Pedagogic Research Conference on Technology and AI in Learning and Teaching.
Project 11: AI and Multimodal Learning
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Book: Beckingham, S., Lawrence, J., Powell, S. and Hartley, P. (2024) Using Generative AI Effectively in Higher Education: Sustainable and Ethical Practices for Learning Teaching and Assessment. Routledge.
Book: Beckingham, S. (2023) Collegiate Commentary on ‘Five conundrums from the ChatGPT series’. Teaching Matters. University of Edinburgh.
Project 13: AI and Project Fair Allocation
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Project 14: AI and Collaborative Learning
Journal Publication: Kim, J., Yu, S., Detrick., R., & Li, N. (2024). Exploring students’ perspectives on Generative AI-assisted academic writing. Education and Information Technologies. [SSCI-indexed, JIF Quartile= Q1, IF= 5.5]
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Research and Manuscript in preparation:
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Project 17: AI-enhancement for Classroom as an Organisation Instructional Design: A prototype and Instructional Design Roadmap
Publications: “Integrating Virtual Reality into Classroom-as Organization Learning Design: Experimental Case Study” was published in The International Journal of Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems (IJDATICS) which features the basic version of the prototype that the research project aims to enhance by mixing AI tools with VR digital content (see pages 13-14-15)
Immersive Learning Tools: An account with Uptale VR immersive platform has been secured(www.uptale.io)
Presentations: The prototype will be presented at EdVentures on Thursday, 30th May in Taicang
Target Publications: A paper will be submitted to the ICSCC 2024 conference (Indonesia)and LM-CEIE (https://www.learningmall.cn/zh/ceie/)
Project 18: A quasi-experimental scenario-based study of the effect of using AI tools on self-regulation of learning
Funding: A mobility grant has been awarded by French German University to support the project in January- February 2025.
Click this RC4AIED website to see more update outcomes & projects
(The Research Centre for AI and Education was launched on December 22, 2023. The Academy of Future Education within Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) will provide the start-up fund. The website content will be constantly updated as we expand, with new members and ideas coming in.)