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[September 14, 2022] looking for an eligible student who is able to work full-time for a full 16 weeks between January 2023 to April 2023 at home (but if permitted, a face-face experience will be facilitated) to apply for NSERC USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Award) for doing "Valid N-Grams Identification Web Service based on Statistical Natural Language Processing Techniques" research project. (see http://maiga.athabascau.ca/share/usra2022.html for details) [September 12, 2022] Prof. Maiga Chang received 2022 APSCE Distinguished Researcher Award from the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) (see https://new.apsce.net/apsce-award-winners/) [June 18, 2022] The 2nd International Workshop on Metaverse and Artificial Companions in Education and Society (MetaACES 2022Nov), organized by The Education University of Hong Kong, will be held on 28 or 29 November 2022 during ICCE 2022 (see https://www.eduhk.hk/metaaces2022NovICCE2022/ for more details). You are also welcome to join the event as a PC member (i.e., reviewer) to help read some of the submissions. Please do send me an email in case you are interested in doing so. [June 17, 2022] The 1st MetaACES 2022 online workshop has announced their program at https://www.eduhk.hk/metaaces2022/agenda.html. [September 8, 2021] You can now reviewing the individual recordings of any presentation sessions in the VIP Research Group's Research Outcome Webinar (VIP ROW 2021) at here. [August 27, 2021] VIP Research Group plans to have a Research Outcome Webinar (VIP ROW 2021). The Research Outcome Webinar (VIP ROW) includes TWO 2-hour sessions for the follow FIVE research presentations. The VIP ROW 2021 will be held from 9:30 AM to 11:30 on both Thursday and Friday, September 2 and 3, 2021 in Mountain Time (see https://time.is/Edmonton for your time difference). The webinar includes FIVE research outcome presentations and the detailed information and meeting url can be found here. [July 30, 2021] Research Outcome Presentation on Automatic Answering Service for Coronavirus Question presented by Sayantan Pal had been held twice at 10 AM on both Thursday and Friday, July 29 and 30, 2021 in Mountain Time. presentation's information and online presentation url can be found here.You may review it at HERE. [April 23, 2021] Research Outcome Presentation on Multi-Sentence Similarity Measurement presented by Yash Srivastava had been held twice at 11 AM on both Thursday and Friday, April 22 and 23, 2021 in Mountain Time. presentation's information and online presentation url can be found here.You may review it at HERE. [March 29, 2021] Congratulations to MScIS student, Mr. David Dunwoody, for placing 3rd in Athabasca University's 2021 3MT competition for his presentation title "Finding Your Perfect Research Article in a Sea of 1's and 0's." Congratulations, David! Great success! [September 20, 2020] Webinar on Preparing Yourselves for Natural Language Processing Application Development presented by Radomir Wasowski had been held at 10 AM on Friday, July 3, 2020 in Mountain Time. The webinar's information can be found here and it has three parts: Python Basics, WordNet and Python, and Git Basics and Python Module for Accessing WordNet. You may review any of them by clicking the topic. [June 29, 2020] "Game on: Learning through playing in higher education", The Hub, Athabasca University. Access on: https://news.athabascau.ca/beyond-50/game-on-learning-through-playing-in-higher-education [April 17, 2020] Webinar on Moodle Plug-In Development presented by Theodore Krahn had been held at 10 AM on Friday, April 17, 2020 in Mountain Time. The webinar's information can be found here and you can reviewed it at here with passcode vipted. OMEGA - Online Metacognitive Educational Game with Analytics (https://omega.gameresearch.ca) is open for people to test. You may see the details below. Speaking-based Conversation Quest Management and Assessment (https://conversation.megaworld.gameresearch.ca/) is open for people to test. You may see the details below.

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[September 14, 2022] looking for an eligible student who is able to work full-time for a full 16 weeks between January 2023 to April 2023 at home (but if permitted, a face-face experience will be facilitated) to apply for NSERC USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Award) for doing "Valid N-Grams Identification Web Service based on Statistical Natural Language Processing Techniques" research project. (see http://maiga.athabascau.ca/share/usra2022.html for details)
[September 12, 2022] Prof. Maiga Chang received 2022 APSCE Distinguished Researcher Award from the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) (see https://new.apsce.net/apsce-award-winners/)
[June 18, 2022] The 2nd International Workshop on Metaverse and Artificial Companions in Education and Society (MetaACES 2022Nov), organized by The Education University of Hong Kong, will be held on 28 or 29 November 2022 during ICCE 2022 (see https://www.eduhk.hk/metaaces2022NovICCE2022/ for more details). You are also welcome to join the event as a PC member (i.e., reviewer) to help read some of the submissions. Please do send me an email in case you are interested in doing so.
[June 17, 2022] The 1st MetaACES 2022 online workshop has announced their program at https://www.eduhk.hk/metaaces2022/agenda.html.
[September 8, 2021] You can now reviewing the individual recordings of any presentation sessions in the VIP Research Group's Research Outcome Webinar (VIP ROW 2021) at here.
[August 27, 2021] VIP Research Group plans to have a Research Outcome Webinar (VIP ROW 2021). The Research Outcome Webinar (VIP ROW) includes TWO 2-hour sessions for the follow FIVE research presentations. The VIP ROW 2021 will be held from 9:30 AM to 11:30 on both Thursday and Friday, September 2 and 3, 2021 in Mountain Time (see https://time.is/Edmonton for your time difference). The webinar includes FIVE research outcome presentations and the detailed information and meeting url can be found here.
[July 30, 2021] Research Outcome Presentation on Automatic Answering Service for Coronavirus Question presented by Sayantan Pal had been held twice at 10 AM on both Thursday and Friday, July 29 and 30, 2021 in Mountain Time. presentation's information and online presentation url can be found here.You may review it at HERE.
[April 23, 2021] Research Outcome Presentation on Multi-Sentence Similarity Measurement presented by Yash Srivastava had been held twice at 11 AM on both Thursday and Friday, April 22 and 23, 2021 in Mountain Time. presentation's information and online presentation url can be found here.You may review it at HERE.
[March 29, 2021] Congratulations to MScIS student, Mr. David Dunwoody, for placing 3rd in Athabasca University's 2021 3MT competition for his presentation title "Finding Your Perfect Research Article in a Sea of 1's and 0's." Congratulations, David! Great success!
[September 20, 2020] Webinar on Preparing Yourselves for Natural Language Processing Application Development presented by Radomir Wasowski had been held at 10 AM on Friday, July 3, 2020 in Mountain Time. The webinar's information can be found here and it has three parts: Python Basics, WordNet and Python, and Git Basics and Python Module for Accessing WordNet. You may review any of them by clicking the topic.
[June 29, 2020] "Game on: Learning through playing in higher education", The Hub, Athabasca University. Access on: https://news.athabascau.ca/beyond-50/game-on-learning-through-playing-in-higher-education
[April 17, 2020] Webinar on Moodle Plug-In Development presented by Theodore Krahn had been held at 10 AM on Friday, April 17, 2020 in Mountain Time. The webinar's information can be found here and you can reviewed it at here with passcode vipted.
OMEGA - Online Metacognitive Educational Game with Analytics (https://omega.gameresearch.ca) is open for people to test. You may see the details below.
Speaking-based Conversation Quest Management and Assessment (https://conversation.megaworld.gameresearch.ca/) is open for people to test. You may see the details below.