Innovation and Reform on Technology Empowered Education: The 24th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education

The 24th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE) was held September 12-16, 2020 at Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China. The GCCCE adopted a hybrid conference format for the first time, combining traditional face-to-face sessions and online live streaming to reduce the impact from the Covid-19 pandemic. The GCCCE hosted over 300 current presentations, roundtables, and poster sessions in its nine sub-conferences and one English paper session. With a theme of "Innovation and Reform on Technology Empowered Education," the GCCCE organized four keynote speeches, two expert symposiums, six workshops, one teacher forum, and one doctoral consortium. Over 300 attendees were at the GCCCE site in Lanzhou, China. The presentations, roundtables, and posters were live steaming during the conference. The live streaming conference sessions and their video recordings achieved a total of accumulative views over 330,000 times by the end of October 2020 with their viewers from different countries and regions. This report synthesizes the keynote speeches and award-winning presentations at GCCCE to share some highlights with readers.