Awards & Recognition

Florida Educational Research Association (FERA) Annual Conference, Fort Myers, FL. Ercan, D., Rahimi, S., Esmaeiligoujar, S., Babaee, M., & Gao, R. — Designing an AI-powered Platform to Support Teachers in Creating Algebra Problems for Productive Failure Teaching in K-12 Classes.

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2025). Rahimi, S., Ercan, D., Gao, R., Esmaeiligoujar, S., et al. — ProductiveMath: A Generative-AI-Powered App to Support Productive Failure Teaching. (pp. 344–351). Springer Nature Switzerland.

University of Florida College of Education Research Symposium, Gainesville, FL. Ercan, D., Rahimi, S., Esmaeiligoujar, S., Babaee, M., & Gao, R. — Fail Forward: Designing a Platform to Support Productive Failure in the Classroom.

Awarded by the University of Florida in recognition of academic excellence and research contributions in the College of Education.

Selected for Presidential Presentation at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) 2024 International Convention — one of the highest honors at the conference.

Recognized as the top graduate student in the Educational Technology program at Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.

Ranked first among all candidates in the Educational Technology doctoral program at Allameh Tabataba'i University.

Achieved the top rank among 20,221 educational sciences applicants in the entrance examination for Iranian universities — a nationwide competitive achievement.

Awarded the bronze medal (3rd place) in the Scientific Students' Olympiad, recognizing outstanding academic achievement in the sciences.