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After a rigorous selection by the independent jury of the Yidan Award, the 2023 Yidan Educational Research Award was awarded to Michelene Chi, a professor at Arizona State University in the United States, in recognition of her contribution in exploring students' ways of deep learning from the perspective of cognitive science, thereby helping teachers to improve the quality of teaching. The 2023 Yidan Education Development Award was awarded to educational entrepreneur Xia Reshef (Shai Reshef) for his contribution to making full use of technology and online open source platforms to promote educational equity and inclusion.

Chen Yidan, founder of the Yidan Award, said, "We would like to express our heartfelt congratulations to the winners of the Yidan Award in 2023. By commending innovative research and practice in the field of education, we hope to focus on transformative ideas and open up possibilities for learners to promote human well-being through education."

The purpose of the Yidan Award is to recognize and support individuals and teams around the world who have made significant contributions to educational research and development. Yidan Educational Research Award and Yidan Educational Development Award are awarded every year. Each winner will be awarded a pure gold medal and a prize of HK $30 million, half of which are cash awards and the other half will be funds to support educational research or projects. Each year, the independent jury of the Yidan Award evaluates nominations according to four criteria, namely, visionary, innovative, innovative and sustainable.

Explore innovative ideas and light up the future of education

Professor Ji Qinghua, winner of the 2023 Yidan Education Research Award, is an outstanding cognitive scientist who is well known for her "ICAP" cognitive interaction theory. The ICAP framework explores students' learning patterns and divides them into four types: passive learning, active learning, constructive learning and interactive learning. ICAP sets a benchmark for "cognitive learning" to help teachers gain a better understanding of how students learn, so as to design courses that allow students to actively participate in classroom interaction and help students grow from accepting knowledge to active thinking to "creating new knowledge" through collaboration.

Professor Ji Qinghua, chairman of the judging panel of the ▲ 2023 Yidan Educational Research Award and director of education and skills of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Andreas Sleicher (Andreas Schleicher), said: "Professor Ji Qinghua's research approach is not simply to empirically classify observational research or existing research, but to sum up the main research achievements in the field of cognitive science on the basis of solid theory. It bridges the differences in the previous research literature. One of her important contributions to educational research is to put forward the ICAP theory of exploring how students learn, refining cognitive science and different learning styles into a framework that is easy to understand and easy to popularize, and spare no effort to put scientific theory into practice.

Professor Ji Qinghua plans to use the funds of the Yidan Award program to continue to improve ICAP theory, develop professional development training resources for preschool to higher education teachers, expand the application of ICAP theory in global education scenarios, and promote students to build key skills and enhance in-depth learning.

Xia Reshef, winner of the 2023 Yidan Education Development Award, set up a tuition-free, non-profit online academic education platform to alleviate the shortage of university places and help groups with financial difficulties. and access to higher education for refugees displaced by conflict and war. This model is easy to popularize and strongly promotes the universal benefit of education. Xia Reshef teamed up with international education experts and well-known universities to make full use of technology and online open source platforms to benefit students from higher education at a lower cost.

Dorothy K. Gordon, chairman of the judging panel of the ▲ 2023 Yidan Education Development Award and director of the UNESCO Institute for Applied Information Technology in Education, said, "higher education around the world still faces the challenge of insufficient educational places, which means that it is still difficult for many people to broaden their horizons, employment and income through education. Xia Reshef and his team use digital technology, open source solutions and open education resources to create learning opportunities for those who are marginalized by traditional higher education and open the door to more people. Xia Reshef plans to use the Yidan Award project funds to cooperate with developing countries to further promote the inclusive benefits of higher education.

"the nomination quality and diversity of this year's Yidan Award have been further improved, and it is not easy for judges to select the final winner among many outstanding nominations. the two winners have brought quality education to more people in innovative ways, which has greatly changed our understanding of learning." Said Dr. Koichiro Matsuura, chairman of the jury of the Yidan Prize and former Director-General of UNESCO.

Nominations open in 2024

The Yidan Award is committed to promoting cooperation among education experts, and the two winners will automatically join the Yidan Award "Ming Shi Tang" international education community. The Yidan Award presentation ceremony and Summit will be held in Hong Kong from December 3 to 4, 2023, bringing together global leaders in education, public policy and philanthropy to promote the sustainable progress of education.

It is reported that nominations for the 2024 Yidan Award will begin in October 2023 and end at the end of March next year.

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