Abstract

Since the term Technology-enhanced Learning (TeL) was introduced in our community, we have been anticipating that the technologies invented by us will eventually improve how people learn. People also look forward to witnessing the improvement imparted by these technologies. Surprisingly, the assessment report conducted by SRI brought us depressing results indicating that large amount of investment in technologies for learning did not promise significant improvement in learning. It seems technology-enhance learning is still an unsolved challenge in both social and economic level. The goal of this panel is to seek "out-of-the-box" thinking to expose some of the important challenges yet to be met in TeL research, rather than to expose current research. The following questions will be discussed in this panel: Is there any grand challenge that we must take in order to create a significant economic and social impact? What large-scale collaborations between people from multiple disciplines and locations in our community can contribute to solve this grand challenge in TeL?

Organizers

Tak-Wai CHAN, Yin-Cheong CHENG, KINSHUK, Chen-Chung LIU, Chee Kit LOOI, Marcelo MILRAD