The Thirty-Third International Conference on Learning featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), Hong Kong
"Rethinking the Role of University Professors for Teaching and Learning"
Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
"Doing Digital Literacies through Multimodal Composing with GenAI"
Professor, College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States
Professor and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Honorary Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong
Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Sciences, University of Oviedo, Spain
(Online in Spanish)
Professor, College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States
Associate Professor and Deputy Head, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
"Multimodality and the Cyber-Social: What they mean for Learning?"
Professor Emerita, Former Rector at the University of the Aegean, Greece
"AI in e-learning: Transformative promise, Profound risks."
Professor, College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States
(English)
College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States
(English)
Professor, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
(Spanish)
Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
Shaanxi Normal University, China
(In-Person)
University of Macau, China
(In-Person)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
(In-Person)
The University of Hong Kong, China
(In-Person)Kate-Wong
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
(Online Only)
Victoria University, New Zealand
(Online Only)
Escuela Normal Indígena Intercultural Bilingüe Jacinto Canek, Mexico
(Online Only)
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
(Online Only)
University of Maryland, United States
(Online Only)
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
(Online Only)
University of South Africa, South Africa
(Online Only)
University of Karachi, Pakistan
(Online Only)
University of Granada, Spain
(Online Only)
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
(Online Only)
An-Najah National University/Palestine Technical University, Palestine
(Online Only)
Thomas Adewumi University, Nigeria
(Online Only)
Ontario Tech University, Canada
(Online Only)
Hong, Kong