Best Paper Awards Announcement

We are thrilled to announce that this year, five outstanding papers have been selected for the Best Paper Awards!

Congratulations to the following authors:

Automated Determination of Online Course Difficulty Levels with LLMs – A Case Study
Max Thomas; Sourav Dutta; Christoph Meinel

Human-in-the-Loop AI Skill Mapping: A Mixed-Methods Case Study
Erin R. Hoffman; Ye Li; Sofia N. Lemons; Kamran Pakseresht; Rebecca Coutts

Leveraging Large Language Models to Detect and Summarize Cognitive Presence in Online Discussion Forums
Jeonghyun Lee; Gayane Grigoryan; Rushil Desai; Adrian J. Gallard; Meryem Yilmaz Soylu

Emotion-Aware Assessment of Team Development in Educational Contexts: A Generative AI Chatbot Based on Tuckman’s Model
Yeray Barrios-Fleitas; Gabriel Lasconi; Carina Soledad González González; Arend Rensink

Enhancing Microcredential Design Through Agentic Artificial Intelligence
Rebiha Kemcha; Carlos Alario-Hoyos; Carlos Delgado Kloos 

We extend our warmest congratulations to all the awardees and our appreciation to every author for their valuable contributions to this year’s program.

Meritorious Service Award

This prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to the administrative and management efforts for the conference.

  • Prize: Plaque and Certificate
  • Funding: Funded by the IEEE Education Society
  • Eligibility: Must be a member of the IEEE and preferably a member of the IEEE Education Society
  • Basis for Judging: Dedication, effort and contributions to the conference as judged by the conference Steering Committee members
  • Presentation: Opening Ceremony of the annual conference

    This year's Meritorious Service Award recipient is Alex Duncan from Georgia Institute of Technology for outstanding contributions to the IEEE DEMOcon conference.