Daniel Bailey

Konkuk University (Glocal)

About

Daniel Bailey holds a Ph.D. in Education Technology from Korea University and works as an assistant professor in Konkuk University’s Department of English Language and Literature. He regularly publishes on topics related to online communication and multimedia-assisted language learning. His pedagogical interests lie in technology-rich curriculum development.

Sessions

Synchronous (Session) 101 Things Your Supervisor Never Told You: Shortcuts to Surviving in Academics more

Sat, Nov 6, 16:00-16:45 Asia/Seoul

In this seminar, I will give shortcuts to graduate students, recent graduates, and developing professionals on how to design research and publish quickly. My talking points will emanate from personal experience, literature review, and interviews with research associates. To this end, I hope to provide strategies to help others graduate and publish on time. Attaining a graduate degree is an early step in starting a professional career in academics. However, graduate supervisors cannot always find time to help students with research designs and write-ups. Further, graduate degree programs often focus more on coursework than writing which creates an abundance of graduate degree holders ill-prepared for publishing in their careers. To remedy this, my presentation will explore solutions to research and academic writing challenges reported by graduate students and early professionals, including issues related to work-life balance, the co-author relationship, the write-up, and the strategies to publish in academic journals. The interactive component of this workshop entails voluntary participation in designing your own moc (or real) research projects which we can critique together. MYSTERY EASTER EGG

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Asynchronous (Session) Using Bloom's Taxonomy to better understand chatbots in the educational context more

Sun, Nov 7, 10:00-10:20 Asia/Seoul

This presentation will discuss original research that investigated the use of pedagogical chatbots in an EFL conversational English class. Specifically, this study was concerned with how different types of questions can be used to elicit information from students. Within a Bloom’s Taxonomy Framework, lower-order to higher-order levels of thinking were observed among user-bot interactions. Nineteen South Korean English majors completed six chatbot assignments through an in-house developed Facebook Messenger chatbot. The chatbot activity entailed creating original stories for the class presentation. In addition to directives requesting plot details, the chatbot used closed-ended button reply questions, open-ended questions, and fill-in-the-blank template statements to help students create stories. Results indicated that button reply questions allowed for pacing, recall and content assessment and require low levels of critical thinking. Lastly, directives requesting user input resulted in 35% more output, indicating students took more action when told to do something than when asked. MYSTERY EASTER EGG

Daniel Bailey