Assistant Professor, Department of Workforce Education and Instructional Technology Assistant Professor, AI4STEM Education Center Dr. Ai-Chu Elisha Ding teaches graduate courses in the Learning Design and Technology program. Her research centers on innovative and equitable approaches to technology integration and professional development within K-12 education. She has focused particularly on supporting multilingual and struggling learners in STEM disciplines through the use of emerging technologies and pedagogies, including virtual reality (VR), game-based learning (GBL), and artificial intelligence (AI). Dr. Ding’s work also explores the multimodal and translanguaging affordances of new technologies for enhancing learning among multilingual students. She collaborates extensively with both pre-service and in-service teachers to improve their capacity for effective technology integration. Her previous grant, sponsored by the Indiana Department of Education, supported middle school STEAM teachers in designing and incorporating GBL and VR to promote student collaboration and multimodal meaning making. She currently serves as chair of the Technology as Agent of Change for Teaching and Learning (TACTL) Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Education: Dual Major Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology & Literacy, Culture and Language Education, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2018 M.A. in Educational Studies, University of Michigan, 2011 B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, 2009 Research Research Interests: Innovative and equitable technology integration in K–12 education Teacher professional development for technology use Game-based learning (GBL) in STEM education Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality for learning Technology-mediated multimodal learning for multilingual and struggling learners Video case–based teacher reflection
