Beijing Normal University Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education is a high-level international innovation platform supported by the Beijing Municipal Government. It serves the construction of Beijing National Science and Technology Innovation Center and the adjustment of “high-grade, precision and advanced” industrial structure. The core mission of the Center is to develop a smart public education service platform based on big data for the future education development of teachers and students in the field of basic education in Beijing, provide innovative educational application services for teachers and students in the city, and explore innovative education business form and governance plan in the era of mobile internet. According to the core tasks of the center, it is planned to recruit post-doctoral talents in related research fields: basic theory of learning, subject education, intelligence technology in education field, big data and artificial intelligence research, research on online education resources and services, technology and education integration under the consumption-driven concept, and research on education governance technology.
I. Research areas
1. Research on the basic theory of learning in the Internet era
Based on the disciplines of brain science, neuroscience, clinical medicine, etc., research on the key issues of critical period of cognitive development, cognitive rules, emotional changes and adjustments of students in the 21st century
Research on students' learning patterns under the conditions of new media and new technologies
Research on students' reading, writing, calculation, expression and other basic ability changes
Research on information literacy, media literacy and physical and mental health survey and coping strategies
Research on automated problem assessment model for comprehensive problem solving ability
2. Subject education research
Research on core literacy and ability in various disciplines such as Chinese, mathematics, and English
Research on cognitive model construction, cognitive level and subject potential diagnosis in various disciplines such as Chinese, mathematics and English
Research on the design and development of innovative evaluation questions and online evaluation techniques in various disciplines such as Chinese, mathematics and English
Research on the adoption and visualization of whole-process learning data in various subjects such as Chinese, mathematics, and English
Relevant theoretical and practical research on comprehensive practical activities, STEM education, and Maker education under technical support
3. Research on intelligent technology in education
Research on the construction of subject knowledge ontology library
Research on semantic model of social knowledge space
Research on semantic automatic marking of learning resources
Research on knowledge semanization and problem solving of closed domains
Research on adaptive reasoning engine for learning resources and learning services
Research on semantic understanding, knowledge reasoning and autonomous learning in open domain
Research on data fusion, business collaboration and intelligent service of public education service platform
4. Big data and artificial intelligence research
Research on educational big data analysis model and analysis technology
Research on predictive and diagnostic data models based on educational big data
Research on various statistical and data mining models based on educational big data
Research on sentiment analysis algorithms and models based on artificial intelligence technology
Research on knowledge tracking model based on deep learning
Research on education big data processing platform and analysis module
5. Research on online education resources and services
Research on resource and application convergence mechanism of open platform
Research on service resource attribute modeling
Research on application service aggregation for learning process
Research on development and incubation of learning tools and creative learning resources packages for learning process
6. Research on technology and education integration and education governance technology under the consumption driven concept
Research on integrating intelligent platform into classroom to improve teaching efficiency, benefit and effectiveness
Research on the form of online teaching services
Research on the structure of future schools
Research on the transformation of public education service in the Internet+ era
Simulation calculation and simulation study of systematic education management
II. Application requirements
Applicants should meet the following basic requirements:
1. No more than 35 years old.
2. Have obtained doctor ‘s degree from the top 100 universities in the world (overseas) in the past three years.
3. Outstanding research achievements during the Ph.D. studies and meet the requirements for the selection indicators of Class-A post-doctoral candidates of employer.
The selection of Class A postdoctoral candidates requires a higher level of scientific research output in the past five years, which must meet one of the following requirements:
(1) Preside over provincial and ministerial level scientific research projects and obtain important phased results;
(2) Publish high-level original research results as the first author or corresponding author, publish at least one paper in class B and above journals (or SSCI-Q1 area) or two papers in class C and above journals, or publish at least 3 papers in CSSCI source journals.
4. Ensure continuous post-doctoral research in China for no less than 21 months.
5. Personnel from non-English speaking countries should have good Chinese (or English) listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
6. Results published during the service period should be noted as “This study is funded by the Postdoctoral International Exchange Program”。
III. Funding plans and funding
The post-doctoral international exchange program introduction project is mainly to support some outstanding foreign (overseas) and doctoral students studying in China (returning to China) to work in the postdoctoral research station of our school, and carry out postdoctoral research under the guidance of the co-tutors.
1. At present, the funding quota of our school's international exchange program is 7 persons.
2. Each person receives an annual subsidy of 300,000 yuan (including 200,000 yuan per person per year from the state and 100,000 yuan per person from the school), including living expenses, housing allowances, medical insurance and a round trip to and from China.
3. The school arranges apartments for post-doctoral of international exchange plan to lease during the work period.
IV. Application process
Applicant shall send detailed resume, copy of academic qualifications and diplomas, a recommendation letter from two peer experts, copy of representative academic achievements and other materials to gjjzhaopin@bnu.edu.cn. The interview will be arranged according to the matching degree of the application materials, and follow-up application process will be conducted.
V. Application time
Deadline: December 20, 2018.
VI. Contact information
Address: 3rd Floor, Block A, Jingshi Technology Building, No. 12 Xueyuan South Road, Haidian District, Beijing
Postal code: 100875
Contact: Teacher Guo
Email: gjjzhaopin@bnu.edu.cn
