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Xinran
Zhu


   
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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS


JOURNAL ARTICLES [PEER REVIEWED]
  1. Chen, B., Zhu, X., & del Castillo, F. D. (2023). Integrating generative AI in knowledge building. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 100184.  #pedagogical_design  #AI
  2. Zhu, X., Shui, H., & Chen, B. (2023). Beyond reading together: Facilitating knowledge construction through participation roles and social annotation in college classrooms. The Internet and Higher Education, 100919.  #pedagogical_design  #research_practice_partnership
  3. Zhu, X., Chen, B., Avadhanam, R., Shui, H., & Zhang, R. (2020). Reading and connecting: Using social annotation in online classes.  Information and Learning Sciences, 121(5/6), 261-271.  #literature_review

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS [PEER REVIEWED]
  1. Zhu, X., Jung, Y., Chen, B., Hickey, D., Chartrand, G., Kalir, R., ... & Avadhanam, R. M. (2024). Bridging Social Annotation Practice with Perspectives from the Learning Sciences and CSCL. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning-CSCL 2024 (pp. 331-338). International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).
  2. Zhu, X., Shui, H., & Chen, B. (2023). The Synthesis Lab: Empowering collaborative learning in higher education through knowledge synthesis. Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’23 Companion) (pp. 245-248). #technological_design  #HCI
  3. Zhu, X., & Chen, B. (2023). Understanding idea creation in collaborative discourse through networks: The Joint attention–Interaction–Creation (AIC) framework. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - CSCL 2023.  #analytical_design   #natural_language_processing   #network_analysis
  4. Chen, B., Scardamalia, M., Bereiter, C., Park, H., Teo, C. L., ... Zhu, X., & Bielaczyc, K. (2023). Infrastructuring in knowledge building initiatives. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - CSCL 2023 (pp. 327-336).
  5. Chen, B., Zhu, X., & Shui, H. (2022). Socio-semantic network motifs framework for discourse analysis. In LAK22: 12th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (pp. 500-506). [Short Paper Acceptance Rate: 25%]    #analytical_design   #network_analysis
  6. Zhu, X., Shui, H., & Chen, B. (2022). Connecting social reading and writing: A Social Annotation Synthesizer Tool. In Weinberger, A., Chen, W., Hernández-Leo, D., & Chen, B. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - CSCL 2022 (pp. 603-604). Hiroshima, Japan: International Society of the Learning Sciences. #technological_design
  7. Wiebe, J., Slotta, J., Smørdal, O., Amundrud, A., Rasmussen, I., Zhang, J., Chen, M., Hod, Y., Rahmian, L., Kashi, S., Kalir, J., Zhu, X., ... Joshi, I. (2022). A Cross-cutting introduction to technologies for learning communities. In Oshima, J., Mochizuki, T., & Hayashi, Y. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences - ISLS 2022 (pp. 80-83). Hiroshima, Japan: International Society of the Learning Sciences. #technological_design
  8. Zhu, X., Shui, H., & Chen, B. (2021). Designing support for productive social interaction and knowledge co- construction in collaborative annotation. In Rodrigo, M. M. T. et al. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computers in Education – ICCE 2021 (pp. 142-151). Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. [Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 26%]    🥇 Best Student Paper Award   #pedagogical_design

INVITED TALKS
  1. “Integrating Generative AI in Knowledge Building”, Knowledge Building Connects, Virtual, September 2023 
  2. “Designing Support for Productive Social Interaction and Knowledge Co-construction in Collaborative Annotation”, 2021 I Annotate Conference: Social Annotation Research, Virtual, July 2021                                    
  3. “Social Reading: Theory & Practice”, Liquid Margins Webinar Series Organized by Hypothes.is, Virtual, December 2020