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School Leadership in ICT Implementation: Perspectives from Singapore
Wenli Chen
Asia-Pacific Education Researcher Vol. 22, No. 3 (2013) pp. 301–311
Singapore has implemented two Masterplans for Information Communication Technology (ICT) in education over the last decade. This article examines Singapore teachers' perspectives of how leadership for ICT implementation in schools is distributed...
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What do students do in a F2F CSCL classroom? The optimization of multiple communications modes
Wenli Chen; Chee-Kit Looi; Sini Tan
Computers & Education Vol. 55, No. 3 (November 2010) pp. 1159–1170
This exploratory study analyzes how students use different communication modes to share information, negotiate meaning and construct knowledge in the process of doing a group learning activity in a Primary Grade 5 blended learning environment in...
Language: English
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Supporting Teachers in Designing CSCL Activities: A Case Study of Principle-Based Pedagogical Patterns in Networked Second Language Classrooms
Yun Wen; Chee-Kit Looi; Wenli Chen
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 15, No. 2 (2012) pp. 138–153
This paper proposes the identification and use of principle-based pedagogical patterns to help teachers to translate design principles into actionable teaching activities, and to scaffold student learning with sufficient flexibility and creativity....
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Extrinsic and intrinsic barriers in the use of ICT in teaching: A comparative case study in Singapore
Wenli Chen; Ashley Tan; Cheryl Lim
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2012 (November 2012)
This study examined the use of ICT for teaching undertaken by two primary school teachers at pre-examination period and at post-examination period. Their perceptions of using ICT for teaching and learning and their ICT experiences were also analysed....
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Appropriation of a Representational Tool in a Second-Language Classroom
Yun Wen; Chee-Kit Looi; Wenli Chen
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Vol. 10, No. 1 (March 2015) pp. 77–108
While the affordances of face-to-face and online environments have been studied somewhat extensively, there is relatively less research on how technology-mediated learning takes place across multiple media in the networked classroom environment...
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Integrating Technology in the Classroom: Factors that Account for Teachers' Regressive Developmental Trajectories
Chee-Kit Looi; Wenli Chen; Fang-Hao Chen
International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies Vol. 9, No. 3 (July 2014) pp. 1–17
In this article, we studied the developmental trajectories of three teachers as they integrated GroupScribbles (GS) technology in their classroom lessons over a semester period of about 5 months. Coherency diagrams were used to capture the complex...
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The Singapore Experience: Synergy of National Policy, Classroom Practice and Design Research
Chee-Kit Looi; Hyo-Jeong So; Yancy Toh; Wenli Chen
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 2011) pp. 9–37
In recent years there has been a proliferation of research findings on CSCL at the micro and macro levels, but few compelling examples of how CSCL research has impacted actual classroom practices at the meso-level have emerged. This paper critically ...
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Transformation of Participation and Learning: Three Case Studies of Young Learners Harnessing Mobile Technologies for Seamless Science Learning
Yancy Toh; Hyo-Jeong So; Peter Seow; Wenli Chen
Asia-Pacific Education Researcher Vol. 26, No. 5 (2017) pp. 305–316
The main goal of this research is to understand how young children use mobile technology such as smartphones to traverse different learning contexts and harness a constellation of resources to make sense of their science learning in daily lives. We...
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Effects of instructor's facial expressions on students' learning with video lectures
Yang Wang; Qingtang Liu; Wenli Chen; Qiyun Wang; David Stein
British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 50, No. 3 (May 2019) pp. 1381–1395
This study investigated whether video lectures instructed by a heightened level of expressiveness instructor were better than those instructed by a conventional level of expressiveness instructor or audio‐only in promoting students' online learning, ...
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Incorporating online discussion in face to face classroom learning: A new blended learning approach
Wenli Chen; Chee-Kit Looi; Chee-Kit Looi
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 23, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2007)
This paper discusses an innovative blended learning strategy which incorporates online discussion in both in-class face to face, and off-classroom settings. Online discussion in a face to face class is compared with its two counterparts, off-class...
Language: English
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Interactive networks and social knowledge construction behavioral patterns in primary school teachers' online collaborative learning activities
Si Zhang; Qingtang Liu; Wenli Chen; Qiyun Wang; Zhifang Huang
Computers & Education Vol. 104, No. 1 (January 2017) pp. 1–17
A four-stage online collaborative learning approach to supporting teachers' professional development was proposed and described in this paper. This study investigated primary school teachers' interactive networks and social knowledge construction...
Language: English
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Collaborative activities enabled by GroupScribbles (GS): An exploratory study of learning effectiveness
Chee-Kit Looi; Wenli Chen; Foo-Keong Ng
Computers & Education Vol. 54, No. 1 (January 2010) pp. 14–26
This paper describes the findings of an exploratory cycle of a design-based research project and examines the learning effectiveness of collaborative activities that are supported by the GroupScribbles (GS) software technology in two Singapore...
Language: English
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Measuring Singaporean Students' Motivation and Strategies of Bilingual Learning
Lung-Hsiang Wong; Ching-Sing Chai; Wenli Chen; Chee-Kuen Chin
Asia-Pacific Education Researcher Vol. 22, No. 3 (2013) pp. 263–272
This paper reports a pilot study on the development and validation of the bilingual (Chinese and English) "Motivation and Attitudes for Language Learning Inventory" (MALLI). MALLI is designed to measure secondary school students' learning...
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A blended collaborative writing approach for Chinese L2 primary school students
Lung-Hsiang Wong; Wenli Chen; Ching-Sing Chai; Chee-Kuen Chin; Ping Gao
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 27, No. 7 (Jan 01, 2011) pp. 1208–1226
This paper outlines an adaptable collaborative writing approach employing a wiki to address the typical weaknesses of young Singaporean Chinese students learning Chinese as second language (L2) in Chinese writing. These students' problems in...
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Seamless Learning in the Mobile Age: A Theoretical and Methodological Discussion on Using Cooperative Inquiry to Study Digital Kids On-the-Move
Yancy Toh; Hyo-Jeong So; Peter Seow; Wenli Chen; Chee-Kit Looi
Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 38, No. 3 (2013) pp. 301–318
This paper shares the theoretical and methodological frameworks that are deployed in a 3-year study to examine how Singapore primary school students leverage on mobile technology for seamless learning. This notion of seamless learning refers to the...
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Anatomy of a mobilized lesson: Learning my way
Chee-Kit Looi; Lung-Hsiang Wong; Hyo-Jeong So; Peter Seow; Yancy Toh; Wenli Chen; Baohui Zhang; Cathie Norris; Elliot Soloway
Computers & Education Vol. 53, No. 4 (December 2009) pp. 1120–1132
With the mass adoption of mobile computing devices by the current school generation, significant opportunities have emerged for genuinely supporting differentiated and personalized learning experiences through mobile devices. In our school-based...
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Deconstructing and reconstructing: Transforming primary science learning via a mobilized curriculum
BaoHui Zhang; Chee-Kit Looi; Peter Seow; Gean Chia; Lung-Hsiang Wong; Wenli Chen; Hyo-Jeong So; Elliot Soloway; Cathie Norris
Computers & Education Vol. 55, No. 4 pp. 1504–1523
The history of science education reform has been fundamentally centered around science curriculum development and implementation. The advent of mobile technologies has necessitated a re-examination of how students could better learn science through...
Language: English
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An analysis of student collaborative problem solving activities mediated by collaborative simulations
Chia-Jung Chang; Ming-Hua Chang; Bing-Cheng Chiu; Chen-Chung Liu; Shih-Hsun Fan Chiang; Cai-Ting Wen; Fu-Kwun Hwang; Ying-Tien Wu; Po-Yao Chao; Chia-Hsi Lai; Su-Wen Wu; Chih-Kang Chang; Wenli Chen
Computers & Education Vol. 114, No. 1 (November 2017) pp. 222–235
Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is considered as one of the core competencies of the 21st century. Collaborative simulations which allow multiple students to participate in CPS activities in a shared simulation session are now increasingly...
Language: English