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Thomas C. Reeves, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology (EPIT)
College of Education
The University of Georgia
604 Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602-7144 USA
Email: treeves@uga.edu
Web: http://it.coe.uga.edu/~treeves
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Since 1974, Professor Thomas C. Reeves has developed and evaluated numerous interactive learning programs for education and training. In addition to many presentations and workshops in the USA, he has been an invited speaker in other countries including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, England, Finland, Italy, Malaysia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Tunisia. He is a former Fulbright Lecturer, and a former editor of the Journal of Interactive Learning Research. His research interests include: evaluation of instructional technology, mental models and interactive multimedia, authentic learning environments, and instructional technology in developing countries. His teaching areas include program evaluation and research methods. In 2003, he became the first AACE Fellow. Professor Reeves gave the opening keynote at the 10th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education in Beijing in June 2006 and he co-chaired E-Learn 2006 in Hawaii in October 2006.
Evaluation Resources: http://www.evaluateitnow.com/
Authentic Tasks for Web-Based Learning: http://www.authentictasks.uow.edu.au/
Design-Based Research EPSS: http://projects.coe.uga.edu/dbr/index.htm
Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE): http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp
National Science Digital Library: http://nsdl.org/
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Henk Schmidt is a professor of cognitive psychology at Erasmus University’s faculty of social sciences and founding dean of its problem-based psychology curriculum. Presently, he is the dean of the faculty of social sciences, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He has been the president of the Dutch Psychological Association (NIP), and the chairman of the Dutch Society for Research into Higher Education (CRWO).
His research areas of interest are learning and memory, and he has published on problem-based learning, long-term memory, and the development of expertise in medicine. Schmidt has published more than 250 articles in refereed journals, chapters in books, and books; alone or together with his 30+ PhD.-students. In 2005, the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) selected him as one of the top 200 Dutch scientists.
Twice he received the ”Outstanding paper by an established investigator” Award of the American Educational Research Association. In 1996 the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada awarded him an honorary degree. In 2004, the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, announced him to be the winner of its international medical education research prize for his work in medical expertise and problem-based learning.
In 2006, he received the Distinguished Career Award of the American Educational Research Association, Division I.
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Westley is the Director of the ‘Skoolaborate’ Initiative. He is also Director of Online Learning and Manager of IT at MLC School in Sydney.
Westley presents around the world on topics such as Education in Virtual Worlds, Making 1 to 1 work, Heuristics of implementing elearning, Educational Technology, Connecting Students in a Web 2.0 world and Leading in a Flat World.
Westley has been awarded the ASLA John Lee Award for innovative use of IT in learning in 2007 and he will be receiving this award in 2008. Westley has previously received a Churchill Fellowship, Computerworld Honours (Smithsonian), Apple Distinguished Educator, Macromedia Ed Leader and Adobe Ed Leader for his work with schools and communities. Westley is also on the Board for the NSW and Sydney branches of the Australian Council of Educational Leaders.
It has been such an opportunity to work with talented students, teachers and educators from all around the world. To see then selflessly sharing their ideas and skills is refreshing.
In 2006, he received the Distinguished Career Award of the American Educational Research Association, Division I.
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John Larkin is an educator and instructional designer presently living in Australia. He is a personable and effective teacher with the capability to rapidly adapt to the needs of his audience. He has a rich experience in the development and application of educational technologies in primary, secondary, tertiary and corporate educational fields.
John is constantly researching the latest trends in educational technologies and as a result he has established linkages with like-minded educators across the globe. He is constantly seeking new tools and technologies that will allow educators of all backgrounds to converge teaching and technology in a manner that is both practical and productive.
He has worked on a significant number of web-based and CD-ROM projects. John has led the design on corporate, tertiary and school based web-learning projects. His skill set is enriched with a keen eye for design and a practical approach towards instructional technologies.
John conducts regular professional development workshops for academics and teachers, in Australia and Singapore, in the areas of information technology, eLearning course design and curriculum integration. He is presently teaching at St Joseph’s Catholic High School in Albion Park, New South Wales, Australia. As a result John is acutely aware of the demands and pressures placed upon educators.
He has also taught, on a casual part time basis and remotely, at the National Institute of Education within the Specialist eLearning Instructional Design Programme. John was also the Senior Assistant Director at the Centre for Educational Development at Nanyang Technological University prior to his return to Australia.
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Chee Yam San (Associate Professor)
Learning Sciences & Technologies Academic Group and Learning Sciences Lab
National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore 637616
Email: yamsan.chee
URL: http://YamSanChee.home.nie.edu.sg/
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Chee Yam San is an Associate Professor in the Learning Sciences & Technologies Academic Group and the Learning Sciences Lab at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He obtained his BSc (Econ) Hons from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, and his PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia.
Current research focuses on new literacies and new media in education, with a special emphasis on serious games and game-based learning. Recent games developed include Space Station Leonis, Escape from Centauri 7, and Ideal Force. Prior work revolved around the design, development, and evaluation of learning environments that made use of distributed multimedia computer technologies to promote learning goals.
Prof Chee is a member of the Cognitive Science Society, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Australian Computer Society, the American Educational Research Association, the International AI in Education Society, and the Jean Piaget Society. He has been an Executive Committee Member of the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) since 1994 and was President of the Society for a two-year term from January 2004.
Prof. Chee is currently the Executive Editor of APSCE's journal, Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. He is also an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Web Based Communities and the International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organization (2006-2008).
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Tan Seng Chee (Associate Professor)
Deputy Head
Learning Sciences & Technologies (LST) |
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Seng Chee Tan is an Associate Dean in the Foundation Programmes Office from the National Institute of Education. He is also an Associate Professor in the Learning Sciences and Technologies academic group. He is a Principal Investigator in a number of funded research projects in Singapore, particularly in the area of fostering knowledge building in science classrooms. His research interests include the use of computers as cognitive tools, computer-supported collaborative learning and online learning communities.
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Dr Marissa Wettasinghe
Head, Centre for IT in Education (CITE, NIE)
Tel: 67903073
Email: cmwetta@nie.edu.sg
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Dr Marissa Wettasinghe is an Assistant Professor in the Learning Sciences & Technologies Academic Group at the National Institute of Education. She specializes in the use ICT for mainstream education and special education. She also heads the Centre of IT in Education at NIE. In her role, she and her team are responsible for all e-learning activities, projects, development and acquisition of e-tools and applications for academic staff in the institute. Her areas of research interest include the innovative use of ICT for teaching and learning, continuing professional development of teachers with the support of ICT in Singapore schools.
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Pratima Majal
Instructional Designer
Centre for IT in Education (CITE, NIE)
Email: pmajal@nie.edu.sg |
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Pratima Majal is an Instructional Designer at the Centre for IT in Education, NIE. She is involved in the design, implementation and promotion of eLearning for academic staff and student teachers at NIE. Her professional duties include designing and conducting workshops on the use of technology for teaching and learning, for lecturers and student teachers at NIE. She has extensive experience in school and with students, on the design of IT curriculum for project work. Her research interest includes the pedagogical implications of Web 2.0 (namely blogs and wikis) for teaching and learning as well as blended learning. She has a Master of Arts in Instructional Design and Technology and is currently embarking on her Doctorate in Education.
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Mr Lim Kin Chew
Senior Lecturer
School of Science and Technology at UniSIM and also a Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Research
kclim@unisim.edu.sg
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Mr Lim Kin Chew is presently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Science and Technology at UniSIM and also a Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Research. He is also the Chairman of the Learning Standards Technical Committee set up by IDA and SPRING Singapore. He was previously the Manager at the Centre for IT in Education & Learning, Learning Academy, Temasek Polytechnic as well as the Executive Manager of the E-learning Competency Centre at National Institute of Education. For his promotional work on eLearning standards in Singapore, Kin Chew received the Distinguished Award from SPRING Singapore in 2004.
Kin Chew is a regular speaker at the Asia Open Source Software Symposium which started in 2003. He has conducted several workshops on the use of Open Source Software for the AsiaOSS community including a Master Trainer’s Workshop on CRM (Customer Relationship Management) using SugarCRM in Kuala Lumpur (2006). He is a strong advocate of the Open Source Initiative and oversees the Masters Programme in Open Source Software Management at UniSIM.
He holds a B.Sc in Physics, Dip. Ed and a M.Sc in Businesss Systems Analysis & Design.
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Maish Nichani
Design Consultant at PebbleRoad and Editor for eLearning Post
Mobile: +65 9871 9260
E-mail: maish-at-pebbleroad.com |
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Maish Nichani is Design Consultant at PebbleRoad – a design studio focusing on intranets, collaboration, knowledge sharing and e-learning. He is also Editor of elearningpost, an e-learning blog that he started in 1999. He has over 12 years of experience in this field, starting out initially to build edutainment CD-ROMS for kids in the mid 90s. He has seen through the e-learning hype cycle and believes that now e-learning is resurfacing in a more matured and focused way.
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Olga Sourina (Asst Prof)
School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
E-mail: eosourina@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: 6790 5442
Fax: 6793 3318 |
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Dr Sourina has been working as an Assistant Professor of School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering in NTU since 2001. She received her MSc in Computer Engineering from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) in 1983, and her PhD in Computer Science from NTU in 1998. Her current research areas are visual data mining, geometric modelling, computer graphics, virtual reality, visual and haptic interfaces, and biomedical engineering. She has more than 60 publications including 18 research papers in international refereed journals and 3 books. She is a member of program committees of international conferences, a member of the editorial board of International Journal “Computer Graphics & Geometry” and a member of the IEEE Computer Society. For her scientific achievements Dr. Sourina was awarded the honorary diploma of the Academy of Sciences of USSR, the Silver Medal of the National Exhibition Centre of USSR, and the Medal of the Ministry of Education of USSR.
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Assistant Professor Bates Roderick W.
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
E-mail: roderick@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: (+65) 6790 3737
Fax: (+65) 6316 698 |
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BSc and PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College London; postdoc at Colorado State University; teaching and research at the University of North Texas (UNT), Chulalongkorn University, the Chulabhorn Research Institute, University of Exeter and finally NTU. Teaching interests in Organic Chemistry and (latterly and notoriously) Forensic Science.
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Asst Prof Martin Constable (ADM)
School of Art Design and Media
Nanyang Technological University
E-mail: mconstable@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: (+65) 6316 8729
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Martin Constable teaches digital painting at the School of Art Design and Media and has lived in Singapore for two years. Before then he ran the Extensions Degrees at London’s prestigious Goldsmiths’ College. He is a practicing artist and produces work under the name Jack Youngblood. A technically consummate painter his work is widely admired and collected.
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Assoc Prof Timothy John white
Head-Materials Science (MSE)
Nanyang Technological University
E-mail: tjwhite@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: (+65) 6790 4586
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Tim White has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Australian National University. He is currently teaching courses in crystallography, electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction to undergraduate and graduate students. As part of a growing ‘virtual’ presence he is guiding the development of integrated teaching texts and machine simulations that are being used to better prime students for hands-on training. Evaluation of learning outcomes is also on-line. Next semester one of these courses will run entirely on-line. Student feedback suggests this approach will have high acceptance. These systems are infinitely scalable and very suitable for distance education.
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Thanasingam Santhakumari
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
E-mail: sthanasingam@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: (+65) 6514 1039
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Thanasingam Santhakumari is a lecturer at the Language and Communication Centre of the Nanyang Technological University. She coordinates English Proficiency for her Centre. She is currently involved in research that evaluates learning outcomes of a restructured curriculum that has introduced a scaffolded-blended approach to teaching English proficiency. Her experience in language teaching ranges from secondary school learners in Singapore to foreign adult learners from the industry, as well as, the foreign service. Her previous research includes a study of mother tongue interference on the learning of English, a study on vocabulary development of PRC students, and a study of teaching writing beyond the traditional prescriptive grammatical approach. Her most recent co-authored paper on using technology in teaching English proficiency was presented at Ascilite 2007. She is passionate about understanding how learners learn and is currently working on a proposal for a PhD to explore the impact of using technology on language learning.
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Alan Soong
Centre for Educational Development
Nanyang Technological University
E-mail: sskoong@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: (+65) 6790 5996
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Alan Soong is currently a Senior Assistant Director (Faculty Development) at the Centre for Educational Development (CED), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is working on a number of e-learning initiatives and promotes the adoption of educational technology amongst faculty members through edUtorium, a staff development programme. He has been involved in various projects and committees on teaching and learning in NTU. His areas of interest include professional development in higher education, asynchronous and synchronous communication tools for teaching and learning. Alan served as a co-chair for ascilite 2007 conference (http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/singapore07/).
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Lim Luck Yong
Manager (MGR)
School of Interactive & Digital Media (SIDM)
Tel: (65) 6550-1839
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Mr Lim Luck Yong, Programme Manager in NYP School of Interactive and Digital Media,
Diploma in Digital Entertainment Technology. Mr Lim teaches Mathematics for Computer Graphics,
Principles of Game Design, and Social Issues and Ethics in the digitised society. He also oversees the running
of the operations of the DET programme.
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Kevin Anthony Jones
School of Computer Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Email: ASKAJones@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 6790 6126
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Kevin Anthony Jones is a full-time lecturer in the School of Computer Engineering; he joined NTU in July 2002. His interests are in software development and implementation, and he is an expert in UML.
Previous to NTU, Kevin was involved in the provision of adult education, both in the public and private sectors. He has developed professional training programmes for software consultants, software developers, and communication equipment technicians. He served in the Canadian Signals School as a Chief Instructor and Computer Course developer.
In NTU, Kevin has been a course coordinator since 2004. From this vantage point, he has been studying the Asian student, and conducting research into the effectiveness of teaching practices, both traditional and new (blended learning). After completing the first part of the Certificate in Teaching for Higher Education, Kevin has amassed considerable data on student feedback for these initiatives.
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