Dr Looi Chee Kit is the Associate Professor in Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He was the Head of Learning Sciences Lab from January 2004 to June 2008. Currently, he is the Head, Centre of Excellence for Learning Innovation(CELI) from July 2008. He was the principal investigator and key designer of several educational technology systems in his past stint in government-funded research institutes in Singapore. The systems he developed include a web-based multi-user collaborative environment which has been used in various projects involving Singapore school students as well as students from other South-East Asian countries; a word-problem solving learning environment which has been licensed to industry; and peer-to-peer technology for supporting group collaborative work which has been patented. He has given keynote and invited talks in Australia, China, Finland, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, and Taiwan. He is a member of the executive committee of the International AI & Education Society, regional editor of the Journal of CAL as well as an editorial member of the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. He has published more than a hundred papers in conferences, journals and chapters of books. He is also currently the External Examiner for the Chinese University of Hong Kong's MA programme for IT in Education.

 

 

Bachelor of Science, Honors

 

Master of Science (University of British Colombia, Canada)

 

PhD (University of Edinburgh, UK)

 

-	Hung, D, Looi, C.K. & Koh, T.S. 2004, Situated Cognition and Communities of Practice: Differentiating between First-Person “Lived Experiences” and Third-Person Perspectives, Educational Technology & Society, 7(4), pp. 193-200.
-	Hung, D. & Looi, C.K. 2004, Learning Sciences and Instructional Science: Attempting a Structural Coupling in Singapore: A response to the special issue on the learning sciences and instructional systems, Educational Technology, September-October 2004, Volume 44, No. 5, pp. 62-63.
-	Looi, C.K., Hung, D., Bopry J. & Koh, T.S. 2004, Singapore’s Learning Science Lab: Seeking Transformations in ICT-enabled Pedagogy, ET R&D International Review Section, ET R&D Journal.
-	Looi, C.K. & Kinshuk, 2005, Editorial: Crafting Learning in Context. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, International Forum of Educational Technology & Society, October 2005, Volume 8 Number 4.
-	Looi, C.K.., Hung, D. & Tan, L. W. H. 2005, Facilitating inter-collaborations in the Learning Sciences, Educational Technology, July-August 2005, pp. 41-44.
-	Looi, C.K., Hung, D. & Tan, L. W. H. 2006, Linking learning sciences to teacher education: Teachers’ beliefs, Professional Development, and Scalability issues, Educational Technology, Volume XLVI, Number 3, May-June 2006, pp. 22-26.
-	Looi, C.K.. & Hung, D. 2006, Educational Technology Special Issue on the Learning Sciences - Capacity building, Critical areas, and Concerted impact, Educational Technology, Volume XLVI, Number 3, May-June 2006, pp. 5-7.
-	Tak-Wai Chan, Jeremy Roschelle, Sherry Hsi, Kinshuk, Mike Sharples, Tom Brown, Charles Patton, John Cherniavsky, Roy Pea, Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway, Nicolas Balacheff, Marlene Scardamalia, Pierre DillenbourG, Chee-Kit Looi, Marcelo Milrad and Ulrich Hoppe, 2006] One-to-One Technology-Enhanced Learning: An Opportunity for Global Research Collaboration, Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2006) 3-29.
-	Looi, C.K., Hung, D., Chen, W.L. & Wong, L.H. (2006), A Research Agenda for Fostering Deep Learning Mediated by Technologies: Perspectives from Singapore (in Chinese), Global Chinese Journal of Computers in Education, Vol. 4, Nos 1 & 2, 2006 pp. 85-100.
-	Looi, C.K., & Chen, W. (2007). Bridging Research to Practice in Technology-Mediated Learning: A Learning Sciences Perspective.China Audiovisual Education, 12, pp. 1-7.
-	Chen, W., & Looi C.K. (2007). Incorporating online discussion in face to face classroom learning: A new blended learning approach. Australasian Journal of Educational Research, 23(3), 308-327.
-	Seow, P., Zhang, B.H., Chen, W., Looi, C.K., & Tan, N. (2008). Learning about Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3Rs) with Mobile Technologies. International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organization, Special issue on "Information and Service Personalization for Mobile Learning”.
-	Looi, C.K., P. Seow, B.H. Zhang, H.J. So, W.L. Chen & L-H. Wong (accepted), Leveraging Mobile Technology for Sustainable Seamless Learning: A Research Agenda, British Journal of Educational Technology.
-	Chen, W.L., N. Tan, C.K. Looi, B.H. Zhang & P. Seow (2008),Handheld Computers as Cognitive Tools: Technology-enabled Environmental Learning, Research Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, World Scientific, Vol. 3, No. 3, Nov 2008, pp. 231-252.
-	Wong, L.H. & C.K Looi, Adaptable Learning Pathway Generation with Swarm Intelligence, Educational Technology & Society.
-	So, H. J., Kim, I. S, & Looi, C. K. (2008). Seamless mobile learning: Possibilities and challenges arising from the Singapore experience. Educational Technology International, Vol. 9, No. 2, October 2008, pp. 97-121.
-	So, H.J., Seow, P. & Looi, C.K. (accepted). Location Matters: Leveraging Knowledge Building with Mobile Devices and Web 2.0 Technology, Special Issue of “Web 2.0 for Interactive e-learning” in Interactive Learning Environments.
-	Looi, C.K., C-P Lin & K-P Liu (2009), Group Scribbles to Support Knowledge Building in Jigsaw Method. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
-	Looi, C.K. & K.S. Lim (accepted), From Bar Diagrams to Letter-symbolic Algebra: A Technology-Enabled Bridging, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.

 

Intelligent Educational Systems

 

Technology-Enabled Mathematics Education

 

Situated Cognition

 

Learning Sciences

 

Sustainability and Scalability of Educational Innovations