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All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
Friday, April 21, 2023Saturday, April 22, 2023Sunday, April 23, 2023Monday, April 24, 2023

Location: Virginia Tech Executive Briefing Center

12:00-13:00: Conference Registration

13:00-13:05: Announcements & Welcome

13:05-13:15: Welcome Address and Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners

13:15-14:00: Keynote Presentation
Embracing the Digital Shift: Unleashing the Potential of Flexible Learning
Dale Pike, Virginia Tech, United States

14:00-14:45: Featured Interview Session
Learning Beyond Boundaries, Learning Beyond Borders
Joseph Haldane, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan
Tomoaki Ishigaki, Embassy of Japan in the United States of America, United States

14:45-15:15: Coffee Break

15:15-16:45: Featured Panel Presentation
Existential Questions in Education: Research and Innovation

    15:15-15:45: Keynote Presentation
    Research and Innovation
    Michael Menchaca, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, United States

    15:45-16:15: Keynote Presentation
    State or "State"?: The Innovations of the Hawaiian Kingdom
    Kālewa Correa, Smithsonian Institution, United States

    16:15-16:45: Panel Discussion

16:45-17:00: Conference Photograph

17:00-18:00: Conference Poster Session & Welcome Reception

09:00-09:30: On-site Registration

09:30-11:10: On-site Parallel Presentation Session 1
Ballston Room: International Education
Falls Church: Inclusive Pedagogy

11:10:11:25: Coffee Break

11:25-12:15: On-site Parallel Session 2
Ballston Room: International Education (Workshop)
Falls Church: Intercultural Learning

12:15-13:15: Lunch Break

13:15-14:55: On-site Parallel Session 3
Ballston Room: Learner Experience Design
Falls Church: Interdisciplinary Education

14:55-15:10: Coffee Break

15:10-16:50: On-site Parallel Session 4
Ballston Room: STEAM Education
Falls Church: Instructional Design and Learning Sciences

09:00-09:30: On-site Registration

09:30-11:10: On-site Parallel Presentation Session 1
Ballston Room: STEAM Education
Falls Church: Emerging Philosophical Perspectives on Learning & Education

11:10:11:25: Coffee Break

11:25-12:15: On-site Parallel Session 2
Ballston Room: Learner Experience Design
Falls Church: International Education (Workshop)

12:15-13:15: Lunch Break

13:15-14:55: On-site Parallel Session 3
Ballston Room: Instructional Design and Learning Sciences
Falls Church: Experiential Learning

14:55-15:10: Onsite Conference Closing Session

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07:55-08:00: Message from IAFOR

08:00-09:40: Online Parallel Presentation Session 1
Room A: Enhancing Access to Education
Room B: Learning Experiences
Room C: Learner Experience Design

09:40-09:55: Short Break

09:55-11:35: Online Parallel Presentation Session 2
Room A: Higher Education
Room B: Culture and Arts-based Education
Room C: Interdisciplinary Education

11:35-11:40: Online Conference Closing Message

Featured Presentations

  • Embracing the Digital Shift: Unleashing the Potential of Flexible Learning
    Embracing the Digital Shift: Unleashing the Potential of Flexible Learning
    Keynote Presentation: Dale Pike
  • Existential Questions in Education: Research and Innovation
    Existential Questions in Education: Research and Innovation
    Keynote Presentation: Michael Menchaca
  • State or “State”?: The Innovations of the Hawaiian Kingdom
    State or “State”?: The Innovations of the Hawaiian Kingdom
    Keynote Presentation: Kālewa Correa
  • Learning Beyond Boundaries, Learning Beyond Borders
    Learning Beyond Boundaries, Learning Beyond Borders
    Featured Interview: Tomoaki Ishigaki

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Pre-Recorded Virtual Presentations & Virtual Poster Presentations

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Previous Programming

View details of programming for past ERI conferences via the links below.

ERI2022 ERI2019
Embracing the Digital Shift: Unleashing the Potential of Flexible Learning
Keynote Presentation: Dale Pike

Higher education faces challenges and opportunities across the globe. In addition to environmental and political challenges, we face specific issues such as shifts in the demographic composition of university students and the potential impact of technologies like AI on education and the workforce. To respond to these challenges, we must become more flexible, both in what we deliver and how we deliver it. To collectively prepare for this required flexibility, I propose a focus on building capacity in three key areas: faculty digital fluency, flexible learning modalities, and emerging technologies.

Enhancing faculty digital fluency is vital for navigating technological and societal changes. We’ll define digital fluency and share specific strategies for faculty development, including training programs, peer mentoring, and augmenting resource accessibility. Through facilitation of continuous learning and adaptation, we enable educators to confidently navigate the ever-changing digital landscape.

Developing flexible learning modalities is essential for delivering learning experiences effectively. Traditional instructional methods may be too rigid to meet future needs. Through the application of learner-centered principles and leveraging adaptive learning technologies, we can tailor curricular offerings to more flexible modalities, ensuring success.

Consistently improving the adoption of emerging technologies requires a systematic approach to exploring and implementing them. This presentation will suggest strategies for identifying, evaluating, and integrating these technologies into teaching and learning, while overcoming adoption barriers. Examples of successful technology integration will offer insights into harnessing the potential of innovation.

By enhancing faculty digital fluency, developing flexible learning modalities, and consistently improving adoption of emerging technologies, we can deliver effective, boundaryless learning experiences that empower learners and redefine education.

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Existential Questions in Education: Research and Innovation
Keynote Presentation: Michael Menchaca

Research and innovation play significant roles for progress. With progress, debate follows. Major innovations throughout history, while often beneficial, also cause concern and disruption, whether military innovations like the atom bomb, economic innovations such as the free market, or work innovations like the assembly line. Usually, debates surrounding concerns are confined to academics or industrialists. However, the recent eruption of the progress of artificial intelligence has caused almost universal consternation. Universities, corporations, military institutions, banks, and even K-12 schools express concern and debate the challenges of AI. We’ve heard stories about AI systems lying to get humans to do their work, or suggesting one researcher leave his wife for the system, and recently Elon Musk and other scientists have called for a halt to the “AI race”. This almost universal reaction has led us to ask deep, existential questions about the role of research, innovation, and technology, about its effects on knowledge and education, and about an inconceivably changed future.

To further discussion, this presentation will showcase two perspectives on current research and innovation and the important questions they raise. First, I will provide insight regarding the AI discussion in my field, design and technology, and how we might reframe our perspective. Then, Kālewa Correa will discuss how reimagined historical research can counter deep-seated inaccuracies to staid narratives and refine cultural understanding. Finally, we will engage in a discussion with you as you bring your perspective from diverse fields.

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State or “State”?: The Innovations of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Keynote Presentation: Kālewa Correa

In 1843, the Hawaiian Kingdom was the first non-European country recognised as an independent state via the Anglo-Franco Proclamation. By 1893, that same country had over 21 treaties and 90 embassies operating worldwide; yet, this pre-United States rich history is often not widely known or presented in American education. Is this a coincidence or a matter of purpose? When information boundaries and patriotic-serving narratives are applied to historical truths, entire generations of progress can be swiftly obliterated in the blink of an eye. Nevertheless, through rediscovered histories unearthed in newspapers and archives, we are finding that it was 1800’s Hawai'i that was a true leader of democracy in the world. Listeners will be introduced to newly understood political concepts and innovations from historical Hawai'i that are not widely accessible or taught.

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Learning Beyond Boundaries, Learning Beyond Borders
Featured Interview: Tomoaki Ishigaki

Education has long played an important role in expanding people’s minds beyond the places and spaces into which they were born and raised. This includes from the home to the classroom, and from there to trips to local museums, places of interest and beyond. For many, this intellectual curiosity leads students, teachers and academics to travel, study and work abroad, and in doing so, they forge important personal and professional relationships between their home countries and those abroad.

However, as travelling beyond borders of discipline can have its risks, collaborating and colluding across cultural and international borders has its own, not least in times of global unrest. This interview with Japanese diplomat and legal scholar, Tomoaki Ishigaki, Minister at the Japanese embassy, will look at some of the challenges and opportunities faced in international education, research and innovation, drawing on his international experience and knowledge, with a particular focus on Japan and the United States.

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