Sunday, June 6

14:00-
15:30

TESTING DAY: Testing Microsoft Teams platform for everyone who feels uncertain about sharing their presentation and wants to try it beforehand

16:00-
19:00
NETWORKING SESSION
16:00-
17:30
B2B meetings
17:30-
17:40
Break
17:40-
19:00
Thematic groups

Monday, June 7

Special Session

10:00-
13:00
Title:  SPECIAL SESSION FOR PHD STUDENTS

Coordinators: Mizue Kayama, Shinshu University , Japan

Mike Joy, University of Warwick , UK

Workshop

13:30-
15:30
Title: Intelligent Tutor Demonstrations

Coordinators: Mihai Dascalu,  University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA

Daniela Romano, University College London, UK

13:30-
15:10
Part I: ITS showcases and demos
13:30-
13:50
Presentation of Alast
Discussion and Q&A
13:50-
14:10
Presentation of ReadMe
Discussion and Q&A
14:10-
14:30
Presentation of Solvelets
Discussion and Q&A
14:30-
14:50
Presentation of Cram
Discussion and Q&A
14:50-
15:10
Presentation of Selflt
Discussion and Q&A
15:10-
15:30
Part II: Open discussions

Tutorial  1

16:00-
19:00
Title:  Learning Analytics Hands-On Tutorial (LA)

Coordinator: Professor Alexandra I. Cristea, Durham University

16:00-
16:10
Introduction of Topic and Team
16:10-
16:25
Introduction of Participants
16:25-
16:30
Break
16:30-
16:50
Theory of LA
16:50-
17:00
Break
17:00-
17:20
Hands-on LA
17:20-
17:50
Theory of LA
17:50-
18:00
Break
18:00-
18:30
Hands-on LA
18:30-
19:00
Panel Discussion
19:00 End of Session

Tuesday, June 8 

Tutorial  2

10:00-
13:30
Title:  Data Science for Learning Process management

Coordinator: Filippo Sciarrone, ROMA TRE University, Rome (IT)

10:00-
10:10
Introduction: Summary and main goals
10:10-
10:25
Introduction of Participants
10:25-
10:35
Break
10:35-
11:35
Introduction to the Knime Platform: workflow environment, ML algorithms, workflow building, Data management
11:35-
11:45
Break
11:45-
13:15
Learning Process management: case studies
13:15-
13:30
Panel Discussion
13:30 End of Session

 Main Conference DAY 1

15:00-

15:30

Opening / Greetings
Prof. Cleo Sgouropoulou – General Conference Chair
Prof. Claude Frasson – President of the ITS Steering Committee
Prof. Alexandra I.Cristea  & Dr. Christos Troussas – Program Committee Chairs
Dr. Kitty Panourgia – Organization Chair
15:30-

17:20

SESSION 1: ASSESSMENT

Session Chair: Christos Troussas

Arthur Rump, Ansgar Fehnker, Angelika Mader
#49: Automated Assessment of Learning Objectives in Programming Assignments (FP)

Moritz Marutschke, Yugo Hayashi
#31: Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Feature Evaluation of Online Courses Using the Kano Model (FP)

Robert-Mihai Botarleanu, Mihai Dascalu, Laura Allen, Scott Crossley, Danielle McNamara
#53: Automated Summary Scoring with ReaderBench (FP)

Bogdan Nicula, Mihai Dascalu, Natalie Newton, Ellen Orcutt, Danielle McNamara
#54: Automated Paraphrase Quality Assessment using Recurrent Neural Networks and Language Models (SP)

17:20 End of Session

Panel Discussion 

17:30-
18:50
Title:  From Models to Deployments – The Industry Perspective on The Future of ITS Research and Implementations

Coordinators: Richard Tong, IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee, Squirrel AI Learning

Eric Cosyn, ALEKS/MHE

Jerry Liu, IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee, TAL

Janice Gobert, Rutgers University,  Apprendis

17:30-
17:35
Opening Remarks and Introduction: Mark Lee and Richard Tong
17:35-
18:05
Short Presentations
Moderator: Janice Gobert
Panelists: Richard Tong, Eric Cosyn, Jerry Liu
18:05-
18:35
Panel Discussion
18:35-
18.50
Open Q&A
18:50 End of Session

Welcome Event: Virtual Tour Of Athens

19:00-
20:00
Title: Virtual live-guided tour around Athens 

A virtual journey through the most significant archaeological sites of Athens – the birthplace of democracy and philosophy – live from Greece to the ITS2021 participants.
This virtual, real-time, live-guided tour through the most fascinating places (i.e. Acropolis, Parthenon, Erechtheion, Pnyx Hill, the Ancient Agora, and Plaka area) will give  participants the opportunity to explore and feel the spirit of the beautiful and hospitable city of Athens by Athens Walking Tours

Wednesday, June 9

11:00-
12:30
SESSION 2:  THEORY AND REVIEWS

Session Chair: Lei Shi

Ryan Hodgson, Alexandra I. Cristea, Lei Shi, John Graham
#64: Wide-scale Automatic Analysis of 20 Years of ITS Research (FP)

Zhongtian Sun, Anoushka Harit, Jialin Yu, Alexandra I. Cristea, Lei Shi
#70: A Brief Survey of Deep Learning Approaches for Learning Analytics on MOOCs (SP)

MARINA AIVAZIDI, Christos Michalakelis
#60: Exploring the Barriers of Educational Innovation (SP)

Konstantinos Karampidis, Athina Trigoni, Giorgos Papadourakis, Maria Christofaki, Nuno Escudeiro
#48:  Difficulties and disparities to distance learning during Covid-19 period for deaf students – A proposed method to eradicate inequalities  (P)

12:30-
13.00
Break
13:00-
15:40
SESSION 3: GAMES AND GAMIFICATION

Session Chair: Mohammad Alshehri

Elad Yacobson, Armando Toda, Alexandra I. Cristea, Giora Alexandron
#68: Encouraging Teacher-sourcing of Social Recommendations Through Participatory Gamification Design (FP)

Mohamed Sahbi Benlamine, Claude Frasson
#73: Confusion detection within a 3D adventure game (FP)

 Kamilla Tenório, Bruno Lemos, Pedro Nascimento, Rodrigo Santos Silva, Alexandre Machado, Diego Dermeval, Ranilson Paiva, Seiji Isotani
#28: Learning and Gamification Dashboards: a Mixed-Method Study with Teachers (FP)

Tong Mu, Shuhan Wang, Erik Andersen, Emma Brunskill
#32: An Automatic Adaptive Sequencing in a Webgame (SP)

Amruth Kumar
#9: Do Students Use Semantics When Solving Parsons Puzzles? – A Log-Based Investigation (SP)

Christos Troussas, Akrivi Krouska, Filippos Giannakas, Cleo Sgouropoulou, Ioannis Voyiatzis
#33: Representation of generalized human cognitive abilities in a sophisticated student leaderboard (P) 

Grigoreta Cojocar, Adriana Guran, Laura Diosan
#55: Towards Smart Edutainment Applications for Young Children. A Proposal (P)

15:40-
16:00
SPECIAL SESSION: PRESENTATION OF THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION SCIENCES

Title: Education Sciences – An Open Access Journal by MDPI

Speakers: Milica Milosev & Mladen Rajic

16:00-
17:00
Break
17:00-
19:00
SESSION 4: GROUPS, TEAMS, SOCIAL, CROWD AND COMMUNITIES

Session Chair: Maria Tzelepi

Filippos Giannakas, Christos Troussas, Akrivi Krouska, Cleo Sgouropoulou, Ioannis Voyiatzis
#21:XGBoost & Deep Neural Network comparison: The case of teams’ performance (SP)

Tao wu, Maiga Chang
#13: The Influence of Five Personality Traits on the Interactive Model of Online Group Formation (SP)

Stefano A. Cerri, Philippe Lemoisson
#10: Sovereignty by personalization of information search: collective wisdom influences my knowledge (SP)

 Fidelia Orji, Julita Vassileva
#39: A Comparative Evaluation of the Effect of Social Comparison, Competition, and Social Learning in Persuasive Technology on Learning (SP)

Fabio Gasparetti, Filippo Sciarrone, Marco Temperini
#86: Using Graph Embedding to Monitor Communities of Learners (SP)

Karima Boussaha, Samia Drissi
#5: New Horizons on Online Tutoring System Inspired by Teaching Strategies and Learning Styles (P)

19:00-
20:00
Keynote Speaker: Prof.  Peter Brusilovsky

Title: The return of Intelligent Textbooks

20:00 End of Session

 Thursday, June 10

10:00-
11:00
Keynote Speaker: Adina Magda Florea,University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania

TitleInterpretability and Explanations in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

 

 

 

11:00-

13:45

SESSION 5: STUDENT PREDICTION 

Session Chair: Valia Triperina

Ahmed Alamri, Zhongtian Sun, Alexandra I. Cristea, Craig Stewart, Filipe Dwan Pereira
#69: Next week dropout prediction in MOOCs: weekly assessment of time and learning patterns (FP)

Tahani Aljohani, Alexandra I. Cristea
#52: Training Temporal and NLP Features via Extremely Randomised Trees for Educational Level Classification (FP)

Laila Alrajhi, Ahmed Alamri, Filipe Dwan Pereira, Alexandra I. Cristea
#51: Urgency Analysis of Learners’ Comments: an Automated Intervention Priority Model for MOOC (FP)

Efthyvoulos Drousiotis, Lei Shi, Simon Maskell
#24: Early Predictor for Student Success Based on Behavioural and Demographical Indicators (FP)

Mohammad Alshehri, Ahmed Alamri, Alexandra I. Cristea
#66: Predicting Certification in MOOCs based on Students’ Weekly Activities (FP)

Mona Alotaibi, Mike Joy
#46: Internet of Things (IoT) Based Support System for Diabetic Learners in Saudi Arabian High Schools (P)

13:45-
14:45
Break
 

14:45-
16:00

 

SESSION 6 : EXTENDED REALITY 

Session Chair: Jingyun Wang

Alessia Genovese, Federica Marino, Francesco Orciuoli, Gennaro Zanfardino
#57: ARDNA: a Mobile App based on Augmented Reality for supporting knowledge exploration in learning scenarios Predicting Certification in MOOCs based on Students’ Weekly Activities (SP)

Kodjine Dare, Hamdi Ben Abdessalem, Claude Frasson
#62: Extraction of 3D Pose in Video for Building Virtual Learning Avatars (SP)

Muhamad Irfan Rosli, Zarina Che Embi, Dr. Junaidi Abdullah
#58: A Non-immersive Virtual Reality Application for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (SP)

Sarah Alshamrani
#74: Using Augmented Reality in Computing Higher Education (P)

16:00-
17:05
SESSION 7: CONCEPT MAPS   

Session Chair: Jingyun Wang

Junya Morita, Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Yugo Hayashi
#18: Integrating Knowledge in Collaborative Concept Mapping: Cases in an Online Class Setting (SP)

Victor Uglev, Oleg Sychev
#11: Creating and Visualising Cognitive Maps of Knowledge Diagnosis During the Processing of Learning Digital Footprint (P)

Carla Limongelli, Carmine Margiotta, Davide Taibi
#19: Towards Semantic Comparison of Concept Maps for Structuring Learning Activities (P)

Jingyun Wang, Hiroaki Ogata
#35: An evaluation of a meaningful discovery learning support system for supporting E-book user in pair learning. (P)

17:05-
17:30
Break
17.30-
19:40
SESSION 8: FEEDBACK AND PERSONALISATION

Session Chair: Christos Papakostas

Seounghun Kim, Woojin Kim, Hyeoncheol Kim
#8: Learning Path Construction Using Reinforcement Learning and Bloom’s Taxonomy. (FP)

Victor J. Marin, Maheen Riaz Contractor, Carlos Rivero
#42: Flexible Program Alignment to Deliver Data-Driven Feedback to Novice Programmers (FP)

Ilya Posov, Sergei Pozdniakov, Anton Chukhnov
#61: Interaction of human cognitive mechanisms and “computational intelligence” in systems that support teaching mathematics. (SP)

Victor J. Marin, Hadi Hosseini, Carlos Rivero
#72: Customizing Feedback using Semantic Clusters. (SP)

Mohammad Niknazar, Aditya Vempaty, Ravi Kokku
#56: Voice Privacy with Smart Digital Assistants in Educational Settings. (P)

Laurentiu Neagu, Eric Rigaud, Vincent Guarnieri, Sebastien Travadel, Mihai Dascalu
#59: Selfit – An Intelligent Tutoring System for Psychomotor Development. (P)

19:40 End of Session

     

Friday, June 11

10:00-
11:00
Keynote Speaker: Spyros Vosinakis

Title: Extended Reality Technologies in Education: Moving beyond the “Wow” factor

 

11:00-
13:05

SESSION 9:  EMOTIONS AND AFFECT  

Session Chair: Ahmed Alamri

Soelaine Rodrigues Ascari, Andrey Pimentel, Ernani Gottardo
#25: Tutorial Intervention’s Affective Model Based on Learner’s Error Identification in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (FP)

Doru Anastasiu Popescu, Gabriel Ciprian Stanciu, Daniel Nijloveanu
#15: Evaluation test generator using a list of keywords (FP)

Filipe Dwan Pereira, Hermino Junior, Luiz Rodriguez, Armando Toda, Elaine Harada Teixeira de Oliveira, Alexandra I. Cristea, David Oliveira, Leandro Carvalho, Samuel Fonseca, Ahmed Alamri, Seiji Isotani
#27: A recommender system based on effort: towards minimising negative affects and maximising achievement in CS1 learning (FP)

Mahsa Aghajani, Hamdi Ben Abdessalem, Claude Frasson
#34: Voice Emotion Recognition in Real Time Applications (SP)

Moh’d A. M. Abuazizeh, Kristina Yordanova, Thomas Kirste
#40: Affect-aware Conversational Agent for Intelligent Tutoring of Students in Nursing Subjects (P)

13:05-
14:00
Break
14:00-
16:25
SESSION 10: LEARNER BEHAVIOUR    

Session Chair: Tahani Aljohani

Khulood Alharbi, Alexandra I. Cristea, Lei Shi, Peter Tymms, Chris Brown
#41: Agent-based Simulation of the Classroom Environment to Gauge the Effect of Inattentive or Disruptive Students (FP)

Alejandra Ruiz Segura, Susanne Lajoie
#47: Expert, Novice, and Intermediate Performance: Exploring the Relationship Between Clinical Reasoning Behaviors and Diagnostic Performance (FP)

Sungeun An, William Broniec, Spencer Rugaber, Emily Weigel, Jennifer Hammock, Ashok Goel
#30: Recognizing Novice Learners’ Modeling Behaviors (FP)

Rita Kuo, Ted Krahn, Maiga Chang
#26: Behaviour Analytics – A Moodle Plug-in to Visualize Students’ Learning Patterns (SP)

Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Shigen Shimojo, Junya Morita, Yugo Hayashi
#29: Investigating Clues for Estimating ICAP States based on Learners’ Behavioural Data during Collaborative Learning (SP)

Komi Sodoke, Roger Nkambou, Issam Tanoubi, Aude Dufresne
#87: Toward an ITS to enhance novice clinician situational awareness based on expert perception behaviors in clinical reasoning (P)

16:25-
17:00
Break
17:00-
19:10
SESSION 11: MODELS

Session Chair: Katerina Makri

Seounghun Kim, Woojin Kim, Heeseok Jung, Hyeoncheol Kim
#7: DiKT: Dichotomous Knowledge Tracing (FP)

Jialin Yu, Laila Alrajhi, Anoushka Harit, Zhongtian Sun, Alexandra I. Cristea, Lei Shi
#45: Exploring Bayesian Deep Learning for Urgent Instructor Intervention Need in MOOC Forums (FP)

Roger Nkambou, Janie Brisson, Ange Tato, Serge Robert, Maxime Sainte-Marie
#67: Learning Logical Reasoning Using an Intelligent Tutoring System: Improving the Student Model with a data driven approach (SP)

Oleg Sychev, Anton Anikin, Nikita Penskoy, Mikhail Denisov, Artem Prokudin
#22: CompPrehension – Model-Based Intelligent Tutoring System on Comprehension Level (SP)

Téo Orthlieb, Hamdi Ben Abdessalem, Claude Frasson
#71: Checking Method for Fake News to Avoid the Twitter Effect (P)

Vanesa Getseva, Amruth Kumar
#63: Comparing Bayesian Knowledge Tracing Model Against Naïve Mastery Model (P)

19:10-
19:30
Closing Session

Announcements for future events:

University of Bucharest, ITS2022

Dr. C.Trousas NiDS 2021

Other matters

19:30 End of ITS2021 Conference

Greek Party

19:30-
20:00
Farewell party with traditional Greek folklore dance and music.