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Interactive Learning Environments for Promoting Inquiry Learning
Chee-Kit Looi
Journal of Educational Technology Systems Vol. 27, No. 1 (1999) pp. 3–22
Discusses inquiry-oriented learning and the role of technology in interactive learning environments. Highlights include instructive environments; constructive environments, for constructing knowledge; communicative environments; situating...
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Designing a Web-Based Science Learning Environment for Model-Based Collaborative Inquiry
Daner Sun; Chee-Kit Looi
Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 22, No. 1 (February 2013) pp. 73–89
The paper traces a research process in the design and development of a science learning environment called WiMVT (web-based inquirer with modeling and visualization technology). The WiMVT system is designed to help secondary school students build a...
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Agent Prompts: Scaffolding for Productive Reflection in an Intelligent Learning Environment
Longkai Wu; Chee-Kit Looi
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 15, No. 1 (2012) pp. 339–353
Recent research has emphasized the importance of reflection for students in intelligent learning environments. This study tries to investigate whether agent prompts, acting as scaffolding, can promote students' reflection when they act as tutor...
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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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Boundary interaction: Towards developing a mobile technology-enabled science curriculum to integrate learning in the informal spaces
Daner Sun; Chee‐Kit Looi
British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 49, No. 3 (May 2018) pp. 505–515
This paper explores the crossover between formal learning and learning in informal spaces supported by mobile technology, and proposes design principles for educators to carry out a science curriculum, namely Boundary Activity-based Science...
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Space ALIVE!: A Multimedia-Enhanced Collaborative Learning Environment
Chee-Kit Looi; D Ang
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 16, No. 1 (2000) pp. 2–13
Discusses online text-based collaborative learning environments such as Multi-User Dimensions (MUDs) and Object-Oriented MUDs (MOOs) and describes a multimedia-enhanced, Web-based MOO (WOO) called SpaceALIVE! that was the subject of a pilot project...
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Linking Teacher Beliefs, Practices and Student Inquiry-Based Learning in a CSCL Environment: A Tale of Two Teachers
Yangjie Song; Chee-Kit Looi
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 2012) pp. 129–159
The links uncovered by research connecting teacher beliefs to classroom practice and student inquiry-based learning are tenuous. This study aims at examining (a) "how" teacher beliefs influenced practices; and (b) "how" the influence on practices,...
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Orchestration in a networked classroom: Where the teacher's real-time enactment matters
Chee-Kit Looi; Yanjie Song
Computers & Education Vol. 69, No. 1 (November 2013) pp. 510–513
Designing for orchestration needs an emphasis on the criticality of the teacher’s agency, skills and understanding of pedagogies and technologies in orchestrating the classroom beyond the provision of material scripts and technological supports....
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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Implementing Mobile Learning Curricula in Schools: A Programme of Research from Innovation to Scaling
Chee-Kit Looi; Lung-Hsiang Wong
Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 17, No. 2 pp. 72–84
Many countries, regions and education districts in the world have experimented with models of one-device-per-student as an enabler of new or effective pedagogies supported by mobile technologies. Researchers have also designed innovations or...
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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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Designing Technology for Content-Independent Collaborative Mobile Learning
Boticki ; Lung Hsiang Wong; Chee-Kit Looi
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Vol. 6, No. 1 (2013) pp. 14–24
This paper describes the design of a technology platform for supporting content-independent collaborative mobile learning in the classroom. The technical architecture provides mechanisms for assigning different content or materials to students and...
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Swarm Intelligence: New Techniques for Adaptive Systems to Provide Learning Support
Lung-Hsiang Wong; Chee-Kit Looi
Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 20, No. 1 (2012) pp. 19–40
The notion of a system adapting itself to provide support for learning has always been an important issue of research for technology-enabled learning. One approach to provide adaptivity is to use social navigation approaches and techniques which...
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Adaptable Learning Pathway Generation with Ant Colony Optimization
Lung-Hsiang Wong; Chee-Kit Looi
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 3 (2009) pp. 309–326
One of the new major directions in research on web-based educational systems is the notion of adaptability: the educational system adapts itself to the learning profile, preferences and ability of the student. In this paper, we look into the issues...
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Collaborative Inquiry with a Web-Based Science Learning Environment: When Teachers Enact It Differently
Daner Sun; Chee-Kit Looi; Wenting Xie
Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 17, No. 4 pp. 390–403
Though discussion of the teacher factor in ICT-enabled science learning abounds in the literature, the investigation of Teacher Enactments (TEs) of ICT-facilitated lessons through exploring teaching practices is still under-explored and under...
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What seams do we remove in mobile-assisted seamless learning? A critical review of the literature
Lung-Hsiang Wong; Chee-Kit Looi
Computers & Education Vol. 57, No. 4 (December 2011) pp. 2364–2381
Seamless learning refers to the seamless integration of the learning experiences across various dimensions including formal and informal learning contexts, individual and social learning, and physical world and cyberspace. Inspired by the exposition ...
Language: English
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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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Situated Cognition and Communities of Practice: First-Person "Lived Experiences" vs. Third-Person Perspectives
David Hung; Chee-Kit Looi; Thiam-Seng Koh
Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 7, No. 4 (2004) pp. 193–200
This paper considers the work of Martin Heidegger and its relation to situated cognition. The motivation for the paper springs from the perceived misconception that many educators have on situated cognition by applying situated learning strategies...
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The Impact of a Professional Development Model for a Mobilized Science Curriculum: A Case Study of Teacher Changes
Chee-Kit Looi; Daner Sun; Mi Song Kim; Yun Wen
Research in Science & Technological Education Vol. 36, No. 1 (2018) pp. 86–110
Background and purpose: To date, there has been little research on the Teacher Professional Development (TPD) for delivering a mobile technology-supported science curriculum. To address this, a TPD model for a science curriculum supported by mobile...
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Supporting Mobile Collaborative Activities through Scaffolded Flexible Grouping
Ivica Boticki; Chee-Kit Looi; Lung-Hsiang Wong
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 14, No. 3 (2011) pp. 190–202
Within the field of Mobile Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (mCSCL), we are interested in exploring the space of collaborative activities that enable students to practice communication, negotiation and decision-making skills. Collaboration...
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The Innovative Immersion of Mobile Learning into a Science Curriculum in Singapore: An Exploratory Study
Daner Sun; Chee-Kit Looi; Longkai Wu; Wenting Xie
Research in Science Education Vol. 46, No. 4 (2016) pp. 547–573
With advancements made in mobile technology, increasing emphasis has been paid to how to leverage the affordances of mobile technology to improve science learning and instruction. This paper reports on a science curriculum supported by an inquiry...
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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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Learning Conversations: When South-East Asian Students WOO
SOO YIN CHENG; DANIEL ANG; Chee-kit Looi
WebNet Journal: Internet Technologies, Applications & Issues Vol. 1, No. 4 (1999) pp. 47–55
Over the past two years we have been involved in the design, development and pilot of an online collaboration environment based on Multi-User Dimensions, Object-Oriented (MOO) and the WWW (Looi, 1998; 1999; 2000). Our work on designing technology...
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Fostering Personalized Learning in Science Inquiry Supported by Mobile Technologies
Yanjie Song; Lung-Hsiang Wong; Chee-Kit Looi
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 60, No. 4 (August 2012) pp. 679–701
In this paper, we present a mobile technology-assisted seamless learning process design where students were facilitated to develop their personalized and diversified understanding in a primary school's science topic of the life cycles of various...
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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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Enacting a technology-based science curriculum across a grade level: The journey of teachers' appropriation
Chee-Kit Looi; Daner Sun; Peter Seow; Gean Chia
Computers & Education Vol. 71, No. 1 (February 2014) pp. 222–236
Studying teacher enactment of an innovation helps us understand the process of effective spread of a curricular innovation to teachers who have differing levels of content readiness, pedagogical orientations, teaching competency, different student...
Language: English
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Usage of a mobile social learning platform with virtual badges in a primary school
Ivica Boticki; Jelena Baksa; Peter Seow; Chee-Kit Looi
Computers & Education Vol. 86, No. 1 (August 2015) pp. 120–136
This study presents and examines SamEx, a mobile learning system used by 305 students in formal and informal learning in a primary school in Singapore. Students use SamEx
Language: English
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Location Matters: Leveraging Knowledge Building with Mobile Devices and Web 2.0 Technology
Hyo-Jeong So; Peter Seow; Chee Kit Looi
Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 2009) pp. 367–382
This article examines the potential of mobile computing and Web 2.0 technology to support knowledge building in formal and informal settings. Desktop-based knowledge building tools have limited affordances of supporting one-to-one access, learning ...
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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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Orchestration in Learning Technology Research: Evaluation of a Conceptual Framework
Luis P. Prieto; Yannis Dimitriadis; Juan I. Asensio-Pérez; Chee-Kit Looi
Research in Learning Technology Vol. 23, No. 1 (2015)
The term "orchestrating learning" is being used increasingly often, referring to the coordination activities performed while applying learning technologies to authentic settings. However, there is little consensus about how this notion...
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Argue Like a Scientist with Technology: The Effect of Within-Gender versus Cross-Gender Team Argumentation on Science Knowledge and Argumentation Skills among Middle-Level Students
Pi-Sui Hsu; Margot Van Dyke; Thomas J. Smith; Chee-Kit Looi
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 66, No. 3 (2018) pp. 733–766
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore the effect of within-gender and cross-gender team argumentation on seventh graders' science knowledge and argumentation skills in a computer-assisted learning environment in the United States. A ...
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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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Utilizing a Collaborative Cross Number Puzzle Game to Develop the Computing Ability of Addition and Subtraction
Yen-Hua Chen; Chee-Kit Looi; Chiu-Pin Lin; Yin-Juan Shao; Tak-Wai Chan
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 15, No. 1 (2012) pp. 354–366
While addition and subtraction is a key mathematical skill for young children, a typical activity for them in classrooms involves doing repetitive arithmetic calculation exercises. In this study, we explore a collaborative way for students to learn...
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Implementing mobile learning curricula in a grade level: Empirical study of learning effectiveness at scale
Chee-Kit Looi; Daner Sun; Longkai Wu; Peter Seow; Gean Chia; Lung-Hsiang Wong; Elliot Soloway; Cathy Norris
Computers & Education Vol. 77, No. 1 (August 2014) pp. 101–115
Developing and then scaling up an educational innovation so that it achieves on the dimensions of depth, sustainability, spread and change of ownership is a complex endeavor. In this paper, we present a study of one such innovation which has been...
Language: English
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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