Learning Culture and Language through ICTs: Methods for Enhanced Instruction: Methods for Enhanced Instruction

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In general, teaching languages can prove difficult to most without suitable teaching materials and instructors. Fortunately, e-learning courses make student learning of both language and culture easier through information communication technologies.

Learning Culture and Language through ICTs: Methods for Enhanced Instruction offers students, instructors, and researchers an authoritative reference to the current progress of language and cultural e-learning. A high quality collection for libraries and academicians, this book covers pertinent topics such as second language learning and computer learning principles.

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

Dr. Chang is now Chair (2018~2023) of IEEE Technical Committee of Learning Technology (TCLT, ), Executive Committee member of IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities ( ), Executive Committee member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (2017~2024, APSCE, ) and Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (2016~2025, GCSCE, ), Vice President (2022~) of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE, ), and Chair (2021~) of Educational Activities Committee, IEEE Northern Canada Section. Dr. Chang is also a Steering Committee member (2020~) for International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS, ) and chair (2014~) of Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning special interest group (DIGITEL SIG) for IEEE TCLT.

Dr. Chang is editors-in-chief (2019~) of Journal of Educational Technology & Society (an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's SSCI), editor-in-chief (2014~) of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's ESCI, SCOPUS, EI), and editor-in-chief (2020~) of Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology ( , an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's ESCI).

Dr. Chang also serves academic international conference events include being program chair (2015, 2018 to 2020) of International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE), program advising chair (2020~2021) and program committee chair (2019) International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, general program chair (2017~2021) of IEEE TCLT flagship conference International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (IEEE ICALT), executive chair (2020) of inaugural English Paper Track (EPT) of 24th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE), consultant (2020), IPC Coordination chair (2019) and co-chair (2018) of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE),and steering committee member (2017~2020) and advisory chair (2012~2016) of IADIS International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning.

Dr. Chang has given more than 125 talks and lectures in different 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 240 edited books, book chapters, journal and international conference papers. He is an IEEE senior member for twenty-seven years since 1996 and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society. Dr. Chang was also a member of ACM (2001-2017), AAAI (since 2001-2017) and INNS (2004-2018).

Chen-Wo Kuo is currently in charge of international licensing matters at the National Palace Museum, Taipei (Taiwan). He is a section chief in the marketing and licensing department. He has two Master degrees. One is MBA (master of business administrative) and the other is CIS (Computer Information System). His major studies are related to e-government policy-making, digital archives, e-learning, digital divide, and culture creative industry. Besides that, he is planning how to reform of the institutional image and innovative design value-added business model. [Editor]

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