Mar 2010

Learning Sciences Lab is conducting its third game-based learning workshop using Indiana University’s academic play space Quest Atlantis. Assistant Professor Steve Zuiker and Research Associate Doreen Ang have partnered with Indiana University’s Center for Research on Learning & Technology, NIE’s Learning Sciences & Technologies Academic Group, and NIE’s Graduate Programs & Research Office to offer this professional development course to Singapore teachers. http://bit.ly/QuestAtlantisWorkshop

Prof. Nadia Thalmann will be giving a seminar entilted "Towards believable interactive serious games" on 1 Mar 2010. Read here for speaker's biography and abstract of the talk...

Professor Nikol Rummel will be giving a seminar entilted "Towards Adaptive Script Support for CSCL: Leveraging Intelligent Tutor Technology " on 2 Mar 2010. Read here for speaker's abstract of the talk...

Nov 2009

Prof David Williamson Shaffer gave a seminar entilted "Good games: How to find them, build them and test them" on 12 Nov 2009. Read here for speaker's biography and abstract of the talk...

Prof David Williamson Shaffer gave a seminar entilted "Education for a global market: Computer games and the future of learning " on 10 Nov 2009. Read here for speaker's biography and abstract of the talk...

Sep 2009

Dr. Zhang Baohui participated the 13th Asian Chemical Congress (13th ACC) conference as an invited speaker to the Chemistry Education Session (Sept. 14-16, 2009, Shanghai, China). Other invited speakers were from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Estonia, Philippines, and USA. His presentation title was: Improving Secondary School Chemistry Learning through School-based and Technology Enhanced Innovation in Singapore. During his trip, Dr. Zhang was also invited to give a presentation titledTen-Year Journey on Using Technologies for Inquiry-based Science Teaching and Learning"at the Learning Sciences Center, East China Normal University, China. Click here for photos...

Prof Eric Klopfer will be giving a seminar entilted "Ubiquitous Games and Augmented Reality – Research and Design of Mobile Games for Learning" on 23 Sep 2009. Read here for speaker's biography and abstract of the talk...

Dr Melissa Gresalfi gave a seminar entilted "Investigating, Measuring, and Designing: Dispositions towards Learning and Doing Mathematics" on 15 Sep 2009. Read here for speaker's biography and abstract of the talk...

Ast Prof Liu Yan gave a seminar entitled "PBL-GIS in Singapore's Secondary Geography Education: Does it result in higher-order learning outcomes?" on 2 Sep 2009. Read here for abstract of the talk...

Prof Peter Reimann gave a seminar entitled "New Learning, Old Methods? How Web 2.0 and the Grid might change the way we go about research on learning" on 3 Sep 2009. Read here for speaker's biography and abstract of the talk...

Aug 2009

Ast Prof Steve Zuiker and Ast Prof Katherine Anderson, gave a seminar entitled "Leveling Up: Transforming Classroom Ecologies for Game-Based Learning" on 13 Aug 2009. Read here for abstract of the talk...

July 2009

Prof Zemira R. Mevarech, Professor and Dean, School of Education Bar-llan University, Israel gave a seminar entitled "Meta Cognitive Instruction and Mathematics Education: Why Teaching Skills is Just Not Enough?" on 3 July 2009. Read here for speaker's biography and abstract of the talk...

May 2009

Dr Makoto Manabe, Senior Scientist/Curator of Fossil Reptiles & Birds, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan gave a seminar entitled "Mixed Reality Technology Meets Dinosaurs" on 29 May 09. Read here for speaker's biography and abstract of the talk...

Apr 2009

This workshop on 30 April 2009 provides an overview of the basic functions of SPSS, for statistical analyses in quantitative research. Participants will learn the basic features of SPSS and will be taken step-by-step to learn data coding, data inputting/importing and data analysis, as well as scientifically interpret the analysis results.  

Dr Chen Wenli has been doing quantitative and qualitative research in the areas of learning sciences and communication studies, and has published more than 40 papers, including three award-winning publications. Dr Chen teaches Quantitative Methodology and Statistical Analysis at NIE and NTU. She is also a research consultant for a number of schools in Singapore.

She is now an Assistant Professor with Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group and a faculty researcher with the Learning Sciences Laboratory.

Feb 2009

Professor Marlene Scardamalia, President of Education and Knowledge Technologies at OSIE/University of Toronto and a Co-Founder of the Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology (IKIT) gave a seminar entitled "The Knowledge Creation Imperative" on 12 Feb 09. Read here for speaker's biography and abstract of the talk...

Professor Carl Bereiter, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto & a Co-Founder of the Institute for Knowledge Innovation & Technology (IKIT) gave a seminar entitled "How is New Knowledge Created?" on 13 Feb 09. Read here for speaker's biography and abstract of the talk...

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