Dr Looi Chee Kit is the Associate Professor in Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He is also the Head of Learning Sciences Lab since January 2004. 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. 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., A Research Agenda for Fostering Deep Learning Mediated by Technologies: Perspectives from Singapore (in Chinese), Global Chinese Journal of Computers in Education (forthcoming).
-	Looi, C.K., Lim, W.Y. and Hung, D. (2005) Sustaining Innovations in Singapore Schools: Issues and Challenges, in “Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations informed by the Learning Sciences”, IOS Press, pp. 244-251.
-	Looi, C.K., E. Ong & L-H Wong (2005) Multi-tiered peer learner support, in “Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations informed by the Learning Sciences”, IOS Press, pp. 779-782.
-	Looi, C.K. and W-Y Lim (2006) Integration of ICT for Sustainability: Perspectives for Educational Research, paper presented at AERA 2006, San Francisco.
-	Foo, S.Y. & C-K. Looi (2006) A Case Study of Elementary Students’ Argumentation in Science, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences, Bloomington, n the Learning Sciences, Bloomington, pp. 175-181.
-	Looi, C.K. & W-Y. Lim (2006) Sustaining and Scaling Innovations in Singapore Schools: Issues for School-Based Learning Sciences Research, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences, Bloomington, published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 446 – 452.
-	Peer, J. & C-K. Looi (2006) Students’ Scientific Epistemology: ‘Source of Knowledge’ – a Comparison between two Biology Lessons in a high-school classroom, paper presented at ERAS 2006, Singapore.
-	Chen, W.L & Looi, C.K. (2006), Online Community promoting Cognitive Thinking: Content Analysis of online Discussion in a Professional Development Course, in Research and Practice on Information Technology in Education, Proceedings of the 10th Annual Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE 2006), Tsinghua University Press.
-	Chen, W.L & Looi, C.K. (2006), Incorporating Online Discussion in Classroom Learning: A New Strategy, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2006), IOS Press.
-	Looi, C.K. (2004), Learning Inquiry and Structural Knowledge through Epistemic Games, Cognitive Support for Learning – Imagining the Unknown (edited by Piet Kommers), IOS Press, pp. 73-79.
-	Hung, D, Bopry, J. & Looi, C.K. (2004), Situated Cognition and Beyond: Martin Heidegger on Transformations in Being and Identity, submitted to Education and Psychology: An Encyclopedia (Two Volumes) (edited by Joe L. Kincheloe & Raymond A. Horn), Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
-	Looi, C.K., Lim W-Y, Koh T-S, Hung, D, Systemic Innovations and the Role of Change-Technology: Issues of Sustainability and Generalizability, to appear in ”Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges”, edited by Leo Tan Wee Hin and R. Subramaniam, to be published by Idea Group Inc, Hershey, USA.
-	Looi, C.K., McCalla, G., Bredeweg, B. & Breuker, J. (2005) (editors), Artificial Intelligence in Education: Supporting Learning through Intelligent and Socially Informed Technology, IOS Press.
-	Looi, C.K., Jonassen, D. & Ikeda, M. (2005) (editors), Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations informed by the Learning Sciences, IOS Press
-	Looi, C.K., Hung, D. & Tan, S.C. (2006), Learning for Life in the 21st Century: Fostering Deep Learning Mediated by Technologies, in “Teaching with Technology: Strategies for Engaging Learners”, edited by Myint Swe Khine, Prentice Hall, pp. 323 – 341.
-	Looi, C.K., Lim, W.Y. and Chen, W. (2006), Communities of Practice for Continuing Professional Development in the 21st Century, International Handbook of Information Technology in Education, edited by Joke Voogt and Gerald Knezek.
-	Tan, S.C. & Looi, C.K. (forthcoming), Supporting Collaboration in e-PBL in O.S. Tan (editor), Problem-based Learning in E-learning Breakthroughs

 

Intelligent Educational Systems

 

Technology-Enabled Mathematics Education

 

Situated Cognition

 

Learning Sciences

 

Sustainability and Scalability of Educational Innovations