Kyoto City, Japan, September 5-7, 2025 - Professor Seiichiro Aoki and Vice President Houichi Tsuchimochi of the Kyoto College of Informatics (KCGI) received the "Best Short Paper Award" for their paper presented at the International Conference on Learning Evidence and Analytics (ICLEA 2025) held at Kyushu University in Fukuoka City, Japan, from September 5 to 7, 2025.The award, which was presented at a conference attended by a large number of researchers from the Asia-Pacific region, further enhanced KCGI's reputation for proactively incorporating advanced educational systems.
ICLEA2025 is an international conference organized by the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE), an academic society that promotes the use of computers in education, to enable researchers to share, exchange, and discuss research results on the learning history and analysis of students in elementary and secondary schools and universities.This is the first issue, and the theme is "Reliable Analysis to Support Smart, Evidence-Based Education.
The winning paper is titled "Tracking Learning Process on The ICE Model in A Flipped Classroom at A Japanese University.Professor Aoki presented the results of research that he and Vice President Tsuchimochi and others have been promoting in the flipped classroom (a class format in which students deepen their learning in the classroom after prior learning) designed based on the ICE model, in which students connect and develop their knowledge (Ideas).The paper was recognized as the best presented paper in the Short Paper category at ICLEA 2025.
Professor Aoki holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Osaka University and a Doctor of Science degree in Astronomy from the University of Tokyo.He specializes in astronomy, educational extension, higher education, and educational technology.He is the director of the Astronomy Dissemination Project Office, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, and has appeared on NHK, BS11, and TV Asahi to introduce the record of natural disasters left by Abe no Seimei and other Yin-Yang masters.He is also a part-time lecturer at Kansai University, a part-time lecturer at Osaka University of Economics, a former researcher at Osaka University, a former part-time lecturer at Shiga University, a director of the Japan Society of Applied Informatics, and a director of Hanayama Starry Sky Network, a certified NPO.Winner of the Science and Technology Award of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2013, and the 21st Japan e-learning Awards "Global Case Study Special Category Award".
D. in Education from the University of Tokyo, and a B.A. in Education from California State University, M.A. in Education from Columbia University, Ph.He has also served as a visiting professor at the Nagoya University Research Center for Higher Education, a professor at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), a professor at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), a professor at the MEXT Graduate School Establishment Review, a professor at Hirosaki University's 21st Century Education Center, and a director of Teikyo University's Center for Higher Education Development and Academic and Research Support Center.He also serves as an advisor to the Center for Innovation in Higher Education and Learning at KCGI, and focuses on KCGI's educational and academic support activities and the revitalization of active learning (a learning method in which learners themselves participate "actively" rather than "passively" in the classroom).The ICE model developed in Canada was introduced to Japan by Vice-President Tsuchimochi.