2017
Plenary Speech
Benson Yeh
Peer-to-Peer Learning & Assessment
How can we keep students engaged to the class? How can we make our students motivated to learn and to do assessment? These have been the most challenging questions for teachers nowadays. Prof. Yeh developed a series of Peer-to-Peer Gamification schemes following his unique teaching philosophy: "For the student! By the student! Of the student!" In this talk, Prof. Yeh will explain how his award winning gamification scheme and other P2P schemes work for different courses. He will show the amazing results from his students' course work. It is the new paradigm shift for the education of future.
Benson Yeh is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. A leading innovator in Technology Enabled Learning (TEL), Prof. Yeh created PaGamO, a game system that significantly enhances students' motivation and learning performance. In recognition of PaGamO and Prof. Yeh's contribution to TEL, he won both the Overall Award and the E-Learning Award at Wharton-QS 2014 Stars Reimagine Education Awards, known as the "Oscars" of innovation in education. Prof. Yeh was also a recipient of the Presidential Innovation Award, the highest such honor in Taiwan.