Presentation of the activities of the IEEE Education Society and challenges and opportunities of collaboration and synergy

1. Challenge and Opportunity
with/for
the IEEE Education Society
July 7, 2022

2. Welcome !
https://ieee-edusociety.org

3. Education Society Overview
The IEEE Education Society
(EdSoc) was founded in
1957 and is one of the
oldest technical societies
in the IEEE. It is a
worldwide community of
professionals dedicated to
ensuring high-quality
education in science and
engineering
Objective: The IEEE
Education Society is an
international organization
that promotes, advances,
and disseminates state-of-
the-art scientific
information and resources
related to the Society’s
field of interest and
provides professional
development
opportunities for
academic and industry
professionals
Field of Interest: The
theory and practice of
education and educational
technology involved in the
effective delivery of
domain knowledge of all
fields within the scope of
interest of IEEE

4. Purpose,
Strategy
and
Operations
An approved strategic plan has guided activity for ten years resulting
in significant changes including four new conferences, one new
journal, a new open-access section in IEEE Access, and mutually
beneficial collaborations with other organizational units.
Our membership is globally diverse, mostly academic, and
somewhat younger than it was in the past.
In our conferences we target special sessions and workshops to
women in engineering and young processionals.
We appointed for the first year women in engineering (WIE), young
professional (YP), and diversity and inclusion (D&I) representatives
to the corresponding TAB/IEEE committees

5. Organization
▶ Upper three levels
▪ IEEE
▪ IEEE TAB
▪ IEEE Education Society
▶ TAB Society Review
Committee Review Report.
November 2015
Understanding our Membership
Develop a Deeper Understanding of
Who We Are and Who We Want To Be
Engaging our Members
Engaged Members Value
our Community
Forming Strategic Partnerships
Strong Partnerships Enable Products with High
Impact
Operating Efficiently
Maximize Member Value
OUR SOCIETY
COMMITMENTS
Strategic Framework

6. 2020 TA Strategic Framework
Tools and Platforms
 Next Gen Tools & Processes
 Resource Center
 DataPort
 ICX
 TechNav
 PRAC Tool
 ILN
Managing
Foundational
and Ongoing
Business Effectively
 Sustained Impact of COVID
 Assure Content Quality
 Address misconduct
 Address Data Privacy
 Deliver Data Analytics
 Grow and Relook at Membership
New Tech
 Future Networks
 Blockchain
 Digital Reality
 Quantum
 Graduated Initiatives
 Start up initiatives
 Society New Tech
Efforts
New Audiences
 New virtual audiences
 Entrepreneurs
 Industry
 Young Professionals
 Students
o Re-energize post
covid
o Scholarships
o Travel Grants
o Mentoring
 Women in Engineering
 D&I
New Content
 Increased Stds
 TechEthics
 Humanitarian
Endeavors
 Sustainability
 Life Long Learning
modules (with EA)
New Delivery
 Video Content
 OA & R&P
 Podcasts
 Chinese Publications
 New Style Events
 Educational Programs
 Roadmaps
Build
Technology
Communities

7. Education
Society
Leadership
Executive Committee: President, President-
Elect, Jr. Past President, Sr. Past-President,
Secretary, Vice Presidents, Treasurer
Board of Governors: Three classes of four
members serving three-year terms, 12 total
• Standing Committee Chairs – Ex-officio members of
the BoG with a vote
• Standards
• Constitution & Bylaws
• Finance

8. Additional
Society
Committees
Technical
Committee
on Learning
Sciences
Technical
Committee
on Immersive
Learning
Environments
Strategic
Planning
Committee
Fellows
Evaluation
Committee

9. Technical
Committees
Technical Committee Description and strategic contribution
Technical Committee
on Learning Sciences
This collaborative cross-disciplinary community of experts in
Learning Sciences provides seminars, webinars, white papers,
and organizes conference paper tracks and workshops to
advance the frontiers of human and machine learning.
Learning Science seeks to understand how people learn, how
people chunked and retrieve information for usage, and how
models of education impact success at learning tasks.
Technical Committee
on Learning
Engineering
This collaborative cross-disciplinary community of experts in
Learning Engineering provides seminars, webinars, white
papers, and organizes conference paper tracks and workshops
to advance the frontiers of learning environments.
Learning Engineering is the field of instructional design and
supporting technologies that enable learning through multiple
modalities including residential, mobile, adaptive, and
responsive.

10. President
Edmundo Tovar
VP Member and
Geographic Activities
Rosa M. Vasconcelos
VP Conference and
Workshops
Melany Ciampi
VP Publications
Arnold Pears
VP for Educational
Activities and
Awards
Steve E. Watkins
Secretary
Gary Wong
Treasurer
Tony Maciejewski
Jr. Past President
Russ Meier
Sr. Past President
Claudio da Rocha
Brito
President-Elect
Martin Llamas Nistal
Board of Governors
Class of 2019
Rosanna Chan, Maria M.
Larrondo Petrie, Meriel
Huggard, and Manuel Castro
Board of Governors
Class of 2020
Mark J.W. Lee, Jill K. Nelson, Rob
Reilly, and Rebecca Strachan
Board of Governors
Class of 2021
Diana Andone, Maria Feldgen,
Karen A. Panetta, Sorel Reisman
Board of Governors
Appointees
Standards Committee
Chair
Luis Felipe Zapata
Finance Committee Chair
Diane Rover
Constitution and Bylaws
Committee Chair
Jim Sluss
Organizational Chart for 2021

11. Conferences and
Technical meetings
• Our chapters usually appear linked to events
with TCS
Name of conference or technical
meeting
Type of co-sponsorship
(technical/financial) Region(s)
Frontiers in Education (FIE) Financial R1 - R10
IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference
(EDUCON)
Financial R8
IEEE World Engineering Education Conference
(EDUNINE)
Financial R9
IEEE International Conference on Engineering,
Technology and Education (TALE)
Financial R10
IEEE Learning with MOOCs (LWMOOCS) Financial R1 - R10

12. Publications
• We are encouraging emerging areas with the
deployment of our own IEEE Access section
• Within our archival journals, new areas are
explored periodically through special issues
Title
Inaugural
year
Issues
published/year
Sponsored
(Y/N)?
Transactions
on Learning
Technologies
2008 4 Y
Transactions
on Education
1963 4 Y
RITA 2013 4 Y
Access 2020 N/A Y

13. Publication Portfolio Status
 IEEE-RITA
 New EiC appointed Carina González
 Publication performing well 24 papers published in 2021 to date
 Indexing – RITA appears in the JCR from Clarivate Analytics from 2021
 Submission to publication time 19 weeks
 ToE
 EiC renewal underway – proposal to reappoint Prof. J. Mitchell pending his acceptance and negotiation on editorial
support.
 Title performing well with 39 papers published so far in 2021, already 22 papers scheduled for 2022.
 Page-count 450 and utilisation 447 this year, page-count 500 for 2022.
 Submission to publication times remain at a mean of 32 weeks
 TLT
 EiC renewal underway – proposal to reappoint Prof. M. Lee pending his acceptance and negotiation on editorial
support and an Associate EiC due high workloads.
 Title performing reasonably well with 31 papers published in 2021, we should aim to expand the number of papers per
year.
 Submission to publication times a concern at a mean of 75 weeks we need to reduce bottle-necks in editorial
processing.
 IEEE Access Section
 Performing well, currently 21 articles published, 6 in review in October
 Access to educational content via search features on the main web site poor, access via EdSoc web site produces a
relevant list of papers.

14. Education
A STRONG WEBINAR
COLLABORATION WITH
IEEE EA IS EVIDENCED
THE DISTINGUISHED
LECTURER PROGRAM
HAS BEEN UPDATED TO
INCLUDE AN ACTIVE LIST
OF EXPERTS AND PLANS
ARE UNDERWAY TO
EXPAND CONTENT TO
ONLINE, ON-DEMAND
EDUCATIONAL
CONTENT.
EDUCATIONAL AWARDS
AND OFFERINGS ARE
COMMUNICATED AND
PROMOTED THROUGH
OUR CHAPTERS,
CONFERENCES,
ELECTRONIC
NEWSLETTERS, AND
ONLINE MEDIA (E.G.
SOCIETY WEBSITE AND
LINKEDIN PAGE
OUR EDUCATIONAL
OFFERINGS WILL BE
EVALUATED FOR
APPROPRIATENESS FOR
THE ILN. THE IEEE
TEACHING EXCELLENCE
HUB MAY OFFER AN
OPPORTUNITY TO
HIGHLIGHT ILN
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
CONTENT RELATED TO
TEACHING
ENGINEERING TOPICS

15. VPEAA Action Plan for 2022
What Activities/Actions will contribute to you achieving your Strategic Goals?
▶ Distinguished Lecturer Program – Provide Member Benefit (Educational Resources) / Engage Members
▪ Develop Both In-Person & Virtual Events
▶ Webinars in Collaboration with IEEE Educational Activities – Provide Member Benefit (Educational
Resources) / Deepen Collaborations within the ECE Educational Community
▪ Maintain ongoing collaboration with IEEE Educational Activities
▪ Involve Additional Partners
▶ Teaching Excellence Hub (Co-Hosted with IEEE Educational Activities) – Provide Member Benefit
(Educational Resources) / Deepen Collaborations within the ECE Educational Community
▪ Maintain ongoing collaboration with IEEE Educational Activities
▪ Develop content and promote use

16. TEH Virtual Program (IEEE EdSoc & IEEE EA)
A collaboration between the IEEE Education Society and
the IEEE Educational Activities Board
TEH Co-Chairs
Steve E. Watkins – steve.e.watkins@ieee.org
Timothy Kurzweg – kurzweg@ieee.org
IEEE Staff Support
Sadiq Mitchell – sadiq.mitchell@ieee.org
https://teaching.ieee.org
Description
• Designed to provide professional
development resources to those
teaching at the university level
• Content (articles, resources, events)
developed by experts from IEEE
Education Society and EA Faculty
Resources Committee
▶ Site users have free access to all articles and listings.
A subscribing option is available to have new content
delivered to a user’s inbox
▶ Potential authors and contributors are welcome.
Contact the Editorial Board
▶ Currently, 11 articles are posted plus events and
resources One-stop Source for Educators

17. IEEE Education
Society +
MERLOT

18. 2nd Annual Student OER
Contest

19. ▶ It will be held 4-8 April 2022, a weeklong celebration of
educational opportunities provided by the world’s largest technical
professional association and its many organizational units, societies
and councils from around the world.
▶ All Societies are invited to submit educational events, resources and special
offers that will be featured on the IEEE Education Week website at
https://educationweek.ieee.org/
▶ Contact Jennifer Fong, Director of Education Product, Sales, and Marketing, IEEE
Educational Activities with any questions j.fong@ieee.org
Reminder
▶ https://ieee-edusociety.org/ieee-education-week-2022

20. Membership We grow and sustain membership through
traditional Technical Activities such as conferences,
workshops, research symposia, archival journal
publications, open-access publication options,
webinars, social media channels, and co-
sponsorship of appropriate programs with IEEE-EA
and other sister societies such as LACCEI and ASEE.
Our Society is composed primarily of mid-career
male academics. However, diversification in
engineering practice, academics, and the rise of
the engineering education degree – which has a
more balanced gender ratio –has resulted in
automatic growth in regional, racial, ethnic, and
gender diversity.

21. Education Society Membership (as of Oct. 2021)
▶ Total Number of Members: 3,339 (+156 from June 2021)
▶ Membership Demographics by Gender
▪ Male: 75.14%, 2,509
▪ Female: 19.05%, 636 (+69 since June 2021)
▪ Unknown: 5.18%, 194
▶ Membership by Region
▪ R1-6: 1,182 ( +43 since June 2021)
▪ R7: 103 (+1 since June 2021)
▪ R8: 816 (+41 since June 2021)
▪ R9: 325 (+20 since June 2021)
▪ R10: 774 (+96 since June 2021)

22. Some final recommendations
• To connect with other stakeholders
• Leadership & local activities (with global perspective)
• Students, IEEE Student branches & IEEE HKN chapters
• We would also like to encourage everyone to join our social media
channels on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to stay current on all
Society happenings

23. Can we help?
If you would like anything please contact President at etovar@fi.upm.es, President-Elect at
martin@det.uvigo.es and Operations Manager at admin@ieee-edusociety.org
THANKS!