The 32nd ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36 Plenary and WGs Meeting

The 32nd ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC36 Plenary and WGs Meeting which will be held in Beijing from June 24 to June 28, 2019 at Beijing Normal University (Changping Campus). The ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36 is a sub-organization of the International Standard Organization (ISO) which focus on information technology for learning, education and training. Its scope is to realize the standardization in learning, education and training area to support individuals, groups or organizations and to enable interoperability and reusability of resources and tools. Up to now, it has published 40 ISO standards including the ISO/IEC 19788 (Metadata for Learning Resource), ISO/IEC 19778 (Collaborative technology) and ISO/IEC TS 29140 (Nomadicity and mobile technologies). In addition, 20 ISO standards are still under development including the ISO/IEC 23126 (Ubiquitous Learning Resource Organization and Description Framework) and ISO/IEC FDIS 19479 (Learner mobility achievement information). These ISO standards may improve the efficiency of learning, education and training. The ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC36 annual meeting provides a platform for researcher and experts in learning, education and training areas to discuss about the ideas and progresses for promoting the standardization of educational facilitators.

Date

June 24-28, 2019

Location

Beijing

Organizer

Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education at Beijing Normal University

Program

Open Forum

During the annual meeting, there will be an open forum which will focus much on the trends of education and accordingly the SC36 experts can come up with new ideas for standardization.

For notice, the Plenary and WGs Meeting are exclusive to experts registered in SC36(https://sd.iso.org/meetings/59801) and the Open Forum is open to the public on the afternoon of June 26, 2019. The registration for the Open Forum will be informed by the Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education.

The 32nd ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC36 Open Forum (2019) will be held on 14:00-18:00, June 26, 2019. Artificial Intelligence as information technology has the potential to accelerate the process of achieving better learning, education and training for all. It promises to reduce barriers to access, analyze learning patterns and optimize learning processes with a view to improve learning outcomes. On the other hand, the penetration of AI in education comes with concerns related to ethics, security and human rights. Therefore, the topic of the Open Forum will be “Future Education in the Era of Artificial Intelligence”. In this forum, you are invited to share your ideas, academic researches or practices in AI-powered education. The following topics are potential topics to be discussed, which are still open to new ones:

1. Future role of AI in learning, education and training.
2. Practices of AI in learning, education and training area.
3. Ethical issues and data privacy.
4. Studies or thoughts on AI related international standardization.
5. What should be standardized for better learning, education and training in the era of AI.

Venue

Beijing Normal University (Changping Campus)

Contact Information

Address:

3/F, Block A, Jingshi Science & Technology Mansion

12 Xueyuan South Road

Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 100875

Email:

Gjjhuiyi@bnu.edu.cn

Tel:

+86 010 58806750