Projects

"Move, Idioms!" - A Mobile Assisted Chinese Language Learning Environment

The rise of communicative and contextualised approaches in language learning theories synergize with a Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) paradigm. Against this backdrop, this project designs MALL environments that emphasize creative learner outputs and contexutalised meaning making using Chinese idioms.

A Mobile-Assisted Game-Based Learning Environment To Improve Pupils' Chinese Character and Phrase Learning

Chinese characters have always been considered by both teachers and learners a significant challenge for beginners of Chinese as a second language. One major challenge to the learners is the complexity of the logographic configuration of Chinese characters.

An Investigation into the Challenges of Conducting a Literature Review

Given that the ability to navigate challenges associated with literature reviews directly impacts the quality of research studies, this project examines the strategies employed to overcome them in order to conceptualize a framework and its implications for learning organizations associated with higher education.

Designing for Productive Failure

In productive failure, we design opportunities for students to generate
multiple representations and methods to solve problems for which they do
not know the canonical concepts yet. We know they will fail to generate
the canonical solutions to the novel problems. However, this failure
can be the locus of powerful learning provided an appropriate form of
instructional structure follows.

Developing students' critical thinking skills and critical dispositions through engagement in causal argumentation

Developing Students' process learning skills and deep understanding of electromagnetism through the medium of a 3D simulation game

Engaging secondary school students with the mathematics of change

Enhancing JC Students critical thinking and writing skills through argumentation , enacted role play in immersive affinity spaces, and reflection

Enriching teachers' pedagogical practices in Singapore school through a Design-based Approach with Interactive Whiteboards as catalyst

Flexible Collaboration for Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Classrooms

“Learning efficacy” lies at the heart of the model in Singapore’s school educational context. Such learning efficacy can be measured in traditional ways in terms of school assessment and examination results and in non-traditional ways like engagement, motivation and attitudes in classroom learning and participation, as well as transformed participation in a community of learners (Ng, Looi & Chen, 2008). Our teachers’ (and students’) views of the learning efficacy of various modes of...

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