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Nov 3, 2023, LDT Faculty Kevin Jorgensen serves on a panel on AI, hosted by KPBS

Exploring AI's Potential for the Media

International Activities

In addition to various development projects, LDT faculty and students also conduct research internationally and present at leading conferences. Several students interned at our collaborative organizations around the world: China, India, UAE, Portugal, and Mexico.

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Currently, LDT faculty, students, and alums are presenting annually at IEEE's TALE and iLRN conferences.

We continue to collaborate with scholars worldwide in research and development projects. 

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Following are our scholarly adventures in recent years.

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May, 2023, Dr. Wang gave an opening keynote at IEEE's Global Engineering Education conference (EduCon) , successfully held at the American University of Kuwait. She discussed the impact of Metaverse and Generative AI on education, which was well-received by the audience and Kuwait media.

Summer 2023, LDT Faculty (Wang) conducting workshops on writing and publishing in academic journals to 1000+ scholars in China. 


Oct 2023, LDT Faculty (Wang) keynote speaking at the IEEE STEM Education Summit
 
Nov 2023, LDT Faculty (Wang) keynote speaking at IMCL (Interactive Mobile Communications, Technologies and learning) in Greece
 

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Nava Amoona, a current LDT grad, is working on a multimedia project for IEEE's Technical Committee on Immersive Learning, which has many members from around the world.

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EmotionApp, created by Dr. Victor Zamudio Yeison Fernandez Rojas and Javier Navarro Barron from Instituto Tecnologico de Leon, is a mobile application designed to use Augmented Reality to monitor and regulate the emotions of Dementia patients.
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Dr. Wang was the first keynote speaker at the ICETC 2022 conference in Barcelona, where she presented on Metaverse and the Future of Education: http://icetc.org/keynote.html
2019 Intelligent Environments Conference in Morocco: LDT Faculty presented with an alumnus Elizabeth Damiano

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Rabat, Morocco (Liz, Wang at Dinner Banquet)
In December 2019, Faculty (Wang) keynoted IEEE’s flagship conference-TALE in Indonesia.
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TALE Group
2018 TALE Conference in Australia:
LDT Faculty chaired the Special track on XR and Immersive Learning; Two students--Brad McCombs and Maureen Rymer--, also traveled to Wollongong and presented their team’s research paper.

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2018  Intelligent Environments Conference in Rome:
Faculty (Wang) chaired a special track and also presented with an alumnus--Julia Leeson 
2017 MJ Wang gave a keynote address at the Immersive Learning Research Network conference (iLRN) in Coimbra, Portugal. 
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During the same trip, she also spoke at a leading educational forum in Lisbon and presented at the University of Porto on MOOCs and the future of learning.
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Wang with Dr. Curtis Bonk and Two European Scholars
Program Director from U of Porto introducing the speaker

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2016 Faculty (Wang) gave an invited keynote address at a computer science and education conference at the University of Essex, U.K. 
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MJ with BT Colleagues in Essex
2016 Intelligent Environments Conference in Prague: LDT Faculty chaired a special track. A team of students (Mary De Lepe, Lizbeth A. Cazarez, Yun Zhang) also presented their research paper. 
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LDTech Faculty and Students in Prague
In the Summer of 2016, Mary De Lepe and MJ presented at an education conference in Greece.
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From 2007-2014, LDT Faculty also taught summer classes in Micronesia including the Republic of Palau.  Students were K-12 teachers who were passionate about using technology in teaching.  
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An Aspiring Class MJ Taught In Palau

LDTech faculty, students, and alums also participated in two NSF-funded grant programs (ending in 2022) in collaboration with SDSU's Department of Geography. As a Co-PI, Dr. Wang and her grad assistants conducted outreach workshops for K-12 teachers in California and Guizhou province of China and published papers from this experience.

LDT students also carried out internal evaluations for the first round of this grant.
The second round of the grant involves two alums who work in the school districts of San Diego county.

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