REV2023 01–03 March, 2023, Porto Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece

REV2023 01–03 March, 2023, Porto Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece

Torsten Fransson
KTH Stockholm, Sweden
Professor em Chair Heat and Power Technology

Global co-creation of learning resources towards improved quality: Possibility or Utopia?

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Today educators have extraordinary means to globally collaborate towards increased quality of educational material. Collaboration and peer review is generally accepted to bring a higher quality into research, and university rankings rely to a very large extent upon such work.

High-quality education is the primary responsibility of university teachers. But how often are similar quality criteria applied in education as in research? How often do educators globally collaborate to enhance the quality of the education in their local environment? How often do educators co-create and review their respective learning units? How much collaborative high-quality remote "real-life" engineering is used in global education today?

A concept which allows for voluntary cocreation and collaboration of learning material in a global but local environment, including the very important experimental part of engineering education, will be discussed. A set of complementary remote laboratories are developed, reviewed and thereafter reused in different university environments. Theoretical resources are developed by different teachers, either in isolation or in co-creation. All material are related to Creative Commons, and go through a rigorous self-evaluation process (based upon the EIT* Label Handbook). After such a successful self-evaluation a quality badge will be received and the unit can be sent out for an iterative Quality Improvement Process in which peers review the material and suggests improvements. Depending upon the result an updated badge is received. Students have thereafter the possibility to also rate the module. This results in an open feedback mechanism from both teachers who are interested in the field as well as well as students learning from the resources.

The overall concept is engineering technical neutral whereas the presentation focuses an applications towards the energy sector.

*European Institute of Innovation and Technology

The Speaker

Photo of Torsten FranssonDr Fransson is Prof Emeritus in Heat and Power Technology from KTH, Sweden, with specialty toward aeroelasticity in turbomachines. Over the years he has been involved in a large number of research projects in the energy area. He has been a pioneer in digital education in the energy sector for close to 25 years, ranging from the creation, and running of two Erasmus Mundus Joint Master and one Joint Doctoral programs, life-long learning programs as well as the early creation of remote laboratory exercises.

Dr Fransson is Chevalier de L'Ordre National du Mérite, France, Member of the Royal Engineering Academy (IVA) and Royal Physiographical Society in Sweden. He is a Fellow of ASME and has received the ASME Dedicated Service Award, USA (2003). He is Dr Honoris Causa at The Open University, Sri Lanka, and an International Engineering Educator Honoris Causa from the International Society for Engineering Education.

Dr Fransson was instrumental in the establishment of the EIT InnoEnergy, and served as its first Educational Director for more than 5 years. He is presently involved in four Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa.


Helen Crompton
Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA, USA
Executive Director of the Research Institute of Digital Innovation in Learning (RIDIL) at ODUGlobal
Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at ODU
Director of the Virtual Reality & Technology Enhanced Learning Labs

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Education: Exploring Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges

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The integration of innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence, is transforming the landscape of engineering education. While these technologies have the potential to significantly enhance and extend the learning experience, their full potential can only be realized through the implementation of appropriate pedagogical strategies. Artificial intelligence can optimize the performance of real-world assets and enable learners to accomplish tasks that would otherwise be impossible without technology. However, the emergence of AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT and AI Sparrow is prompting educators to reevaluate traditional approaches to teaching and learning. This keynote presentation will provide insights on: 1) technology integration frameworks that align advanced technologies with relevant pedagogical strategies, 2) research-based evidence from a systematic review of the use of artificial intelligence in higher education, and 3) an examination of how AI programs such as ChatGPT and AI Sparrow are leading to a reevaluation of education and providing new opportunities to enhance the learning experience.

The Speaker

Photo of Helen CromptonDr. Helen Crompton is the Executive Director of the Research Institute for Digital Innovation in Learning at ODUGlobal and an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology, at Old Dominion University (ODU). She is the Director of the Virtual Reality Lab and the Technology Enhanced Learning Lab (TELL) at ODU. She draws from over 25 years in education and a Ph.D. in educational technology and mathematics education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has received numerous awards in the USA and her home country England for her work in technology integration, including the SCHEV award for the Outstanding Professor of Virginia. She is a consultant for various governments and organizations. Dr. Crompton has published over 150 articles on technology integration.

Dr. Helen Crompton is

  • Executive Director of the Research Institute for Digital Innovation in Learning (RIDIL)
  • Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
  • Director of the Virtual Reality Lab
at Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA.

Dr. Crompton’s CV and further information can be found here http://ww2.odu.edu/~crompton/


Diomidis Spinellis
Athens University of Economics and Business & Delft University of Technology
Professor of Software Engineering

Researching the world's knowledge on your laptop

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Sustained exponential advances in computing power, drops in associated costs, and Open Science initiatives allow us to process on a personal computer the metadata from most major international academic publishers. Alexandria3k is an open-source software library and tool that builds on this capability to allow the conduct of sophisticated bibliometric and scientometric studies as well as systematic literature reviews in a transparent, repeatable, reproducible, and efficient manner. In total the Alexandria3k system provides relational access to 1.5 PB of data comprising 2.6 billion records. Diverse examples demonstrate the system's use through ad hoc queries and the population of domain-specific databases.

The Speaker

Photo of Diomidis SpinellisDiomidis Spinellis is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business and a Professor of Software Analytics in the Department of Software Technology at the Delft Technical University. His research focuses on software engineering, IT security, and business analytics. He has written two award-winning, widely-translated books: “Code Reading” and “Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective”. His most recent book is “Effective Debugging: 66 Specific Ways to Debug Software and Systems”. He has also published more than 300 technical papers, which have received more than 12000 citations. He is Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the IEEE Software magazine. He has contributed code that ships with Apple’s macOS and BSD Unix and is the developer of UMLGraph, CScout, git-issue, and other open-source software packages, libraries, and tools. Dr. Spinellis is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE.


Important Dates

19 Sep 2022Submissions for GOLC Online Lab Award 2023
03 Oct 2022EXTENDED
Submission of:
(i) structured abstracts for full and short papers (main conference);
(ii) Special session proposals
10 Oct 2022– Notification of acceptance for abstracts for the main conference
– Special Sessions notification and announcement
14 Nov 2022EXTENDED
Submission of:
(i) complete papers for all submission types
(ii) proposals for round tabls, workshops, tutorials
02 Dec 2022Submission of complete papers for the Doctoral Consortium
05 Dec 2022Notification of Acceptance
20 Jan 2023EXTENDED
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– Author registration deadline
01 Mar 2023Conference Opening

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