With the rapid development of the knowledge economy, cultivating interdisciplinary talents who can solve complicate problems has become the key for the world competitiveness, so STEM education and maker education have become one of the important cores of educational innovation in every country.

Among the subjects covered by STEM education, science is way to understand the natural environment, technology is the application of scientific knowledge to improve our lives, engineering provides solutions for practical problems, and mathematics is the core among these fields. STEM Education focuses on enabling students to develop concepts and skills in all these subject areas through participation to solve these cross-field problems in real-world, therefore helping them to build their competencies, literacy and attitudes, and encouraging them to pursue STEM related careers in the future. The maker education is closely related to the learning of "STEM education", which the "maker education" emphasizes problem-based and topic-based learning, encourages learners to practice, cooperative learning and solve real problems, and the spirit of maker education is gradually implemented by the promotion of "STEM education" in every country.

The application of innovative technology in maker education and STEM education is also a hot topic discussed by maker education and STEM education by scholars and teachers in recent years, and how to combine pedagogy and affordance of science and technology is the core issue of this research field, which deserves more relevant research and teaching practice investment.

This sub-conference focuses on the theory, research and practice of STEM education and maker education, and looks forward to building a high-quality communication and sharing platform for researchers and practitioners in related fields of Chinese people.

Thesis Submission Topics (including but not limited to the following topics)

From 2020, the main conference will comprise nine theme-based sub-conferences and the English Paper Track (EPT). The nine theme-based sub-conferences only admit academic papers written in Chinese. All the manuscripts written in English, regardless of their themes (albeit must be related to the broad topic of technology-enhanced learning), shall be submitted to the EPT instead. For more information, please refer to EPT page.