Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Maiga Chang is Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Information and Systems, Athabasca University (AU), Athabasca, Alberta, Canada. He is the local chair of the 2nd IEEE Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL 2008) and the general co-chair of the 4th International Conference on e-Learning and Games (Edutainment 2009). He serves several peer-reviewed journals, including AU Press and Springer's Transaction on Edutainment, as editorial board members. He has participated in 67 international conferences/ workshops as a Program Committee Member and has (co-)authored more than 91 book chapters, journal and international conference papers. He has been a member of the International Who's Who of Professionals since 2000. In September 2004, he received the 2004 Young Researcher Award in Advanced Learning Technologies from the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology (IEEE TCLT). He is a valued IEEE member for twelve years and also a member of ACM, AAAI, INNS, and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society.
His researches mainly focus on mobile learning and ubiquitous learning, museum e-learning, game-based learning, educational robots, learning behavior analysis, and data mining in e-learning.