JMCentre

This is the wiki website for daily work of the JM Centre of Excellence at Hunan Normal University.

This website shortlink: http://bou.de/u/wiki/JMCentre

Our public website: http://jmcentre.eu

Registration on this website

Please all participants register for this wiki in order to be able to edit the websites and also to add your information:

https://bou.de/u/wiki/Special:RequestAccount

Please fill in the registration form with your real name as "username" and as "real name". The password for registration and also for editing any website on the wiki is "wikicaptcha".

PhD and volunteer student staff work hour documentation

Date, time, hours, content of work

• CCX Dec 5, 18:15-18:45, 0.5 hours, participation in meeting, report on the status of the survey

18 December, an hour, interview with LIU Cixin

Minutes

Nov 16, 2023

Minutes of the Kick-off meeting “EU JM Centre of Excellence for Digitalization of University Teaching” Nov 16, 2023, 10:00-11:30 am, HNU Tenglong Building, room 309

Participants

Prof. Woesler, Prof. Jiang Lihua, Prof. Porter, PhD students Duan Yuanyuan, Liu Rong, Zhouli Ziruo, Volunteer "Sari" Cai Xixiu.

Next Meeting

Friday Nov 24, 2023, 10:00 am room 309. For those who can only attend online: Zoom: http://bit.ly/ZOOMCOURSE

Your contact people: The project staff

Project Leader: Prof. Woesler, Project Assistants: PhD students Duan Yuanyuan, Zhouli Ziruo, Liu Rong. The staff takes on the double task of conducting research (especially systematic literature reviews, surveys, field experiments testing different learning spaces or digital tools) and doing the administration (keeping the overview, watching the timeline, reports on the EU platform, reminding of deadlines, organizing meetings, inviting project members and external experts to joint papers, conferences, anthologies etc.).

Salaries

The project started in September and the project staff has already invested some work. So far, the payment of the salaries was not yet agreed to by the accounting office, they wanted more information. Still, there is a lot of work which needs to be done, including website and reports, until December. Therefore, it is important, that the accounting office already pays the monthly salaries to the project staff now in November.

Budget

The budget is quite large and except from the salary for the project staff contains several sub posts, like lump sum salary for students, travel reimbursement, equipment, website programming, conference costs etc. Prof. David Porter offered to design and create a EU and a CN website adhering to the respective policies.

Personnel

For the 5 Research Groups, the following heads were suggested:

1. Regulation (Comparison) Liu Bai
2. Experiences (Comparison) Aline
3. Effectiveness of digital tools: David Porter, Ole Döring, Yang Zhiming

Explanation: (How to achieve learning outcomes of teaching in presence also with online or technology-enhanced teaching? Quality measurement.)

1. Learning Spaces (Comparison): Jiang Lihua
2. ChatGPT/PostEdit (Comparison C-EU): Martin Woesler

Salary for Project Personnel and Project Members

There is no monthly salary foreseen in the budget for all participants. But everybody who invests time in the project should be reimbursed. Since the publication of papers is the most important in the project, the project offers to reimburse all Professors and PhD candidates, who publish a paper to be reimbursed for 50 hours (each SCI, SSCI or A&HCI impact paper, corresponds to 1000 Euros for professors and 500 Euros for students), 25 hours (each CSSCI impact paper, corresponds to 500 Euros for professors and 250 Euros for students). Non PhD-Students (but Bachelor- or Master students) who participate, e.g. in the many time consuming tasks like literature review, surveys, field experiments, will be reimbursed with a lump sum per month and will be informed about the expected number of hours they are required to work.

Credits and Acknowledgments

Hunan Normal University needs to be mentioned as the affiliated university of both, the 1st and 2nd author. Also, the grant acknowledgement and disclaimer need to be printed with the paper, e.g. as a footnote or endnote. All posters, websites etc. need to display the EU Erasmus + co-funding logo.

Things to do

1. Prof. Jiang: Please invite Prof. Liu Bai and Prof. Yang Zhiming.
2. Prof. Jiang: Dean Situ and the Accounting office may contact you to reconfirm that the first money can be paid from the grant amount received.
3. Ole: Please invite Prof. Aline Tedeschi
4. Everybody: Please start to read the newest research papers on the topic. The library offers and EBSCO access. Ole can instruct student groups to perform different Systematic Literature Reviews. Languages should be at least Chinese and English. Some research questions should be developed through these literature reviews. Please keep in touch in the WeChat group and exchange your findings.

Things to do for the project staff

1. Finalize report of old project (this part of the work is NOT paid by the new project) both on the EU platform as well as on the website http://jmchair.eu.
2. Organize setting up a Website
3. Get the frequent payments running with the accounting office in coordination with the College leadership.
4. Conduct systematic literature reviews, develop research questions, surveys, field studies, experiments etc. => results on wiki for everybody to use.
5. Set up virtual working space on wiki and invite everybody to join. Publish there all findings.
6. Invite everybody to the next meeting next Friday 10 am and collect points for the agenda from the participants.

P.S.: After the meeting, Prof. Jiang invited Prof. Woesler to join the current session of her Colloquium into room 410 (13:00-14:15). There he introduced the project again and offered the PhD candidates to join the project, preferrably assisting the head of research group 4, Prof. Jiang Lihua. PhD candidates are encouraged to join because they can make double use of their research for the project/publications and their thesis. Also, the participation in the project will be certified and can be used in the curriculum vitae for job applications.

Nov 24, 2023

Minutes of the second weekly meeting “EU JM Centre of Excellence for Digitalization of University Teaching” Nov 24, 2023, 10:00-11:30 am, HNNU Tenglong Building, room 309

Participants

Prof. Woesler, Prof. Porter, Prof. Ma Nake, PhD students Duan Yuanyuan, Liu Rong, "Sari" Cai Xixiu.

Next Meeting

Scheduled for Tuesday Nov 29, 16:00 and 18:15 Chinese time room 309. For those who can only attend online: Tencent Meeting:https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/bCQdfgGlezZ1

Budget and Salary

For student volunteers the budget provides a total of 4,000 Yuan per month over the range of 3 years. Since there is a higher workload before and during conferences, we will have to be able to assign both salaries (e.g. for Cai Cixiu) and short-term contract salaries (e.g. for conferences). The project staff receives regular payments. The request for first payments has been submitted.

Things to do

1. Sari: Please conduct a MikeCRM survey. Print the research questionnaire by Prof. Doering, and conduct the survey with the students who participated in the painting event. (When conducting the survey, the respondents’ initials with birth date (like WJG1001) can be used to code them, so that the privacy of respondents can be protected and we can compare and analyze developments.)
2. Phd students: Please analyze the survey results of the last EU project, and upload the parts of the final report to the EU website (compare the answers of Prof. Woesler’s with the students’ answer and get the percentage both at the beginning and the end of the semester. If there is a progress, this would be a good result for the report.) Also copy documentation to website jmchair.eu.
3. Prof. Porter: Thank you for submitting the first samples for a website. They are under review.
4. Everybody: Start reading. Prepare systematic literature reviews on the project topic, develop research questions, surveys, field studies, experiments etc. => results on wiki for everybody to use.

Next Meeting

Scheduled for Tuesday Nov 29, 16:00 and 18:15 Chinese time room 309. For those who can only attend online: Tencent Meeting:https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/bCQdfgGlezZ1

Minutes Nov 28, 2023

Participants

David, Aline, Martin, Duan Yuanyuan, Sari, Zhouli Ziruo, Liu Rong

Website

The new website http://jmcentre.eu is online currently as a copy of http://jmchair.eu. The PhD students have a laptop with which they can edit the website. They will fill in the documentation of the events and courses of the last project on jmcentre.eu and then start to adjust the new website. Later the website might move to a smart phone friendly content management system provided by David Porter, which then should be copied to http://jmcentre.eu

Literature Review

David and Alina start reading papers on Digitalization of University Teaching. David will report about a AI question next time.

Support by University Council President

The University Council President Prof. Jiang offered his support to our project.

He could host the lecture series.

We will look for EU projects he can apply for.

Work to be done soon

PhD candidates: Submit frequent reports on EU platform, e.g. that the website is set up and running.

Everybody: Look for external experts (Chinese and Foreign, out of budget concerns best from within China or if from elsewhere online), which can be invited to a lecture series and a workshop.

Wiki work platform

Everybody should document the work (the PhD students also the hours and what work exactly was done during the hours) on http://bou.de/u/wiki/JMCentre

Next meeting

Scheduled for Dec 5, 2023, 17:15 in room 309 and on Tencent Meeting.

https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/srf6bMHRBJcN

1. 腾讯会议：240-505-868

December 5, 2023, 17:15 internal, 18:15 meeting

We meet in #309 and online on https://meeting.tencent.com/dw/Grwr602gM2k1 #腾讯会议：811-356-704.

Participants

David Porter, Ole Döring, Martin Woesler, Duan Yuanyuan, Sari, Zhouli Ziruo, Liu Rong

Report by David Porter on AI and University Teaching

Ethical questions towards ChatGPT.

How can I use ChatGPT for teaching in class?

Brainstorming

Writing tradition.

Critical thinking skills, reading habits, writing habits.

Do you think it would be appropriate to use ChatGPT.

How much percentage could be replaced with ChatGPT.

Research literacy.

The students are asked why they are given the tasks.

Complete lack of ethical reasoning.

The human input: Prompting.

Standardized surveys exist for cheating and plagiarizing.

Revalue the understanding of "cheating".

A few years ago, one was

"Is it ok to copy and paste a paragraph for your own paper and claim its yours."

"Is it ok to copy and paste a paragraph to ChatGPT."

Frankensteining assisting parts.

Does it matter that ChatGPT plagiarizes?

Authorship discussion.

Survey

Compare impression of the learning effect when watching paper images and painter in comparison to watch images on ppt.

Creativity, you can see the entire process of production and consumption.

Check on the to dos

Can we get any PhD candidates from the Colloquium to join?

Have the people mentioned in the Minutes of the Kick-off meeting been invited to join?

Report on the payments by the accounting department

The staff has been paid for the first three months. Only Zhouli Ziruo needs to set up an account with the department and can only receive salary starting from January 2024.

To do: Duan Yuanyuan will apply that also Sari gets paid the student volunteer lump sum.

Minutes for Dec 12, 2023

Participants: David Porter, Zhouli Ziruo and Martin Woesler, Liu Rong, Sari Cai Zixiu.

Report by David Porter

• Scheduling research during the winter break.
• Fri Dec 15, 2023, 12:00 pm Meeting to discuss survey with David and Ole. Invitation: Sari, Duan Yuanyuan, Liu Rong, Benjamin Wellsand. David will send a reminder in beforehand.

Report by Martin Woesler

Personnel: Benjamin Wellsand will replace Zhouli Ziruo among the three PhD students.

Waiting for payment by accounting department.

EU ratified the AI Ethics law. Cf. to UN resolution.

Martin will add information and put the links here.

Report by Martin Woesler on Grants for going to a French university as a visiting professor, chair professors

For now, I recommend to already check out the grants to prepare a good application. Regarding the chair professor or visiting scholar programs for foreign professors in France, there are the following mostly financed by the EU, sometimes together with the French Ministry of Science (I have indicated all weblinks):

1. Chair Program with Universities and Grand Ecoles

In addition to receiving visiting professors or researchers, many French universities and Grandes Ecoles have chair programmes to welcome researchers from around the world. These programmes are usually designed for specific scientific problems and last for a limited time. The Collège de France in particular has developed a programme of excellence in which many chairs are reserved for foreign researchers or professors. www.college-de-france.fr.

2. Chair Programs with Research Establishments

Further, there are corporate chairs that enable foreign researchers to work with a company and research establishment for up to 2 years. This programme is financed by the French National Research Agency. http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/suivi-bilan/historique-des-appels-a-projets/appel-detail1/chaires-industrielles-2017/

3. Visiting Professors

3.1 the RFIEA (Réseau Français des Instituts d’Etudes Avancées French Network of Institutes of Advanced Studies): http://rfiea.fr/;

3.2 The University of Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne: https://www.univparis1.fr/international/enseignants-chercheurs-invites/venir-comme-professeur-invite/;

3.3 the University of ParisSaclay, with the Alembert programme: https://www.universiteparis-saclay.fr/fr/recherche/appel-projet/jean-dalembert;

3.4 AixMarseille University https://amidex.univamu.fr/fr/notre-projet;

3.5 the University of Paris 13: https://www.univ-paris13.fr/professeurs-invites/;

3.6 the UPMC: http://www.upmc.fr/fr/international/mobilite_des_chercheurs.html.

4. If he wants to go with a research team:

Experienced researchers may request funding for their research team from the European Research Council (ERC).

4.1 A Consolidator Grant https://erc.europa.eu/funding/consolidator-grants or

4.2 Advanced Grant https://erc.europa.eu/funding/advanced-grants can finance all or part of your stay, as well as that of your team, for up to 5 years. These grants can reach 2.5 million euros.

Tasks for next week

Everybody should read a few papers on use of digital technology and/or AI for university teaching and related topics.

Until the end of the year, we should also collect the names of some experts, we want to invite to our lecture series.

Next Meeting

Next meeting is scheduled for Dec 19, 2023 18:15 Chinese time online on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/5739416744?pwd=c3h5L0NnY0xCWjlEMWhuNTBMbE92UT09