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Maiga Chang
Maiga Chang
Athabasca University, Edmonton
Regular Member
Personal Web Site: http://maiga.athabascau.ca
Main page: http://www.mirlabs.net/global/index.php?c=main&a=person&id=558
Short Biography

Dr. Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in the School of Computing Information and Systems at Athabasca University, Canada. His researches mainly focus on game-based learning, training and assessment; mobile learning and ubiquitous learning; museum e-learning; learning behaviour analysis; learning analytics and academic analytics; data mining and artificial intelligence; intelligent agent technology; and, mobile healthcare. 

He is now Chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Learning Technology (TCLT, http://tc.computer.org/tclt), an Executive Committee member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE, http://www.apsce.net/), Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (http://gcsce.org/), and Chinese Society for Inquiry Learning (http://csil.linc.hinet.net/). He is Secretary and Treasurer of International Association of Smart Learning Environments. He is also chair of Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning special interest group (SIG) under the TCLT. Dr. Chang was executive chair (2016-2018) and new initiative chair (2015-2016) in the executive board of IEEE Technical Committee of Learning Technology (TCLT) and chair (2016-2017) and co-chair (2014-2015) of APSCE Asia-Pacific Region Game and Toy Enhanced Learning and Society special interest group (SIG). 

He is editors-in-chief of Journal of Educational Technology & Society (an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's SSCI without publication fee), Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology (an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's ESCI without publication fee), and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (included in Web of Science's ESCI, SCOPUS, EI and more without publication fee for regular mode publication). He was section editor of Education and Science (a free SSCI Open Access journal), guest associate editor of IEEE Technology and Engineering Education, advisory board member of Journal of Computers and Applied Science Education, and guest editor of Education and Technology Society (a free SSCI Open Access journal), International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (a free SSCI Open Access journal without publication fee), Multimedia Tools and Applications (an SCI journal), Mathematical Problems in Engineering (an SCI journal), Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (APSCE's flagship journal, an Open Access journal published by Springer), and The Scientific World Journal (an SCI journal). 

Dr. Chang also serves academic international conference events include being program chair of International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2015, 2018 to 2020), general program chair of IEEE TCLT flagship conference International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (IEEE ICALT 2017 to 2020) and International Conference on Technology for Education (IEEE T4E 2019), program advising chair and program committee chair of 16th and 15th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2020 and 2019), IPC Coordination chair and co-chair of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2019 and ICCE 2018), executive chair of inaugural English Paper Track (EPT) of 24th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE 2020), steering committee member and advisory chair of IADIS International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (2017~2020 and 2012~2016). 

He was also executive program chair and program co-chair of Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE) in 2017 and 2016, track program chair of Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 2014 to 2018, executive chair of GCCCE 2014 sub-conference on Joyful Learning and Society and co-chair for the sub-conference in GCCCE 2013 and 2015, executive chair of ICCE 2014 sub-conference on Game and Toy Enhanced Learning and Society (GTEL&S) and co-chair for the sub-conference in ICCE 2011, 2013 and 2015, steering committee of International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (2017~2018) and special area chair of pervasive education (2011~2016), program co-chair (2011), general co-chair (2009), and advisory board (2013) of Edutainment, and local chair of IEEE DIGITEL 2008. 

He has given more than 105 talks and lectures in different conferences, universities, and events; He has participated in more than 310 international conferences and workshops as a Program Committee Member; and, he also has (co-)authored more than 225 edited books, book chapters, journal and international conference papers. He is an IEEE member for twenty-four years since 1996 and also a member of ACM (2001-2017), AAAI (since 2001-2017), INNS (2004-2018), and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society.  

List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years
  1. Maiga Chang, Giuseppe DAniello, Matteo Gaeta, Francesco Orciuoli, Demetrios Samspon, Carmine Simonelli. (2020). Building ontology-driven tutoring models for Intelligent Tutoring Systems using data mining. IEEE Access, 8, 48151-48162. (SCI)(IEEE)(Open Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2979281
  2. Ahmed Tlili and Maiga Chang (2019). Data Analytics Approaches in Educational Games and Gamification Systems, Smart Computing and Intelligence, Springer. (Springer)
  3. J. X. Seaton, Maiga Chang, & Sabine Graf. (2019), Integrating a Learning Analytics Dashboard in an Online Educational Game. In A. Tlili & M. Chang (Eds.), Data Analytics Approaches in Educational Games and Gamification Systems (127-138), Smart Computing and Intelligence. Springer. (Springer)
  4. Rita Kuo, Cheng-Li Chen, Zhong-Xiu Lu, Maiga Chang, & Hung-Yi Chang. (2019). Educational Reward Information Communication API (ERIC API): A Preliminary Study Result. Revista Produção E Desenvolvimento, 5. (Open Accesshttps://doi.org/10.32358/rpd.2019.v5.395
  5. Ahmed Tlili, Mouna Denden, Fathi Essalmi, Mohamed Jemni, Maiga Chang, and Kinshuk. (2019). An unobtrusive method to model the learner's personality using learning analytics in iMoodle. Interactive Learning Environment. (SSCIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2019.1636084
        List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years
        1. Secretary and Treasurer, International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE). 2019~ 2021. (http://iasle.net/
        2. Chair, IEEE Technical Committee of Learning Technology (TCLT). June 2018~May 2020. (http://tc.computer.org/tclt
        3. Executive Committee, Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. 2017~2020. (http://www.apsce.net)
        4. Steering Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. 2020~2021. 
        5. Editors in Chief, Journal of Educational Technology & Society (ETS). (SSCI)(Open Access)(2019-). (https://www.j-ets.net/)