Dr. Ai-Chu Elisha Ding is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Workforce Education and Instructional Technology, University of Georgia. She received her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the National Taiwan University, M.A. in Educational Studies from the University of Michigan, and Dual Major Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology & Literacy, Culture and Language Education from the Indiana University-Bloomington. She teaches graduate courses for the Learning Design and Technology program. Her research examines the innovative and equitable technology integration and professional development in K-12 education. Specifically, she has focused on supporting multilingual learners (MLs) and struggling learners in STEM education through innovative technologies and pedagogies such as virtual reality (VR), game-based learning (GBL), and artificial intelligence (AI). She is specifically interested in looking into the multimodal and translanguaging affordances of emerging technologies for supporting MLs. Her past grant project sponsored by the Indiana Department of Education provide support to middle school STEAM teachers on designing and incorporating GBL along with using VR and block programming to enhance student collaboration and multimodal meaning making. She is currently the chair of the Technology as Agent of Change for Teaching and Learning (TACTL) SIG for the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
