Scaling up ICT-based Innovations in Schools: The Singapore Experience: 3 (Studies in Singapore Education: Research, Innovation & Practice, 3) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811644683 ISBN 13: 9789811644689

Publisher: Springer, 2021

Synopsis

This collected book is about the eduLab projects, an initiative with focus on Scaling Change through Apprenticising and Ecological Leadership, designed to surface and spread ground-up information and communication technology-based pedagogical innovations. It presents the goals and rationale behind eduLab, an overview of the research projects conducted by its principal investigators during its funding tenure, as well as synthesizing thoughts on the entire endeavor. This book not only marks the achievements of the eduLab programme but also serves as inspiration for future projects. It presents Singapore education in action – a continually evolving and adapting education system that delivers a system well known for its high quality as much as it is forward-looking.

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About the Author

David Hung is currently Dean of Office of Education Research and a Professor at the National Institute of Education, Singapore with teaching and research interests in learning, in particular, social cultural orientations to cognition and communities of practice. He has conducted research in Learning and Instructional Technologies, Constructivism and Social Constructivism, Learning in Communities of Practice in recent years.

Elizabeth Koh is Assistant Dean (Research Support) and Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests are in 21st century competencies, computer-supported collaborative learning, learning analytics, formative assessment and education innovations. She has conducted research in many schools, partnering teachers and education officers in co-designing research innovations to empower and improve practice.

From the Back Cover

This collected book is about the eduLab projects, an initiative with focus on Scaling Change through Apprenticising and Ecological Leadership, designed to surface and spread ground-up information and communication technology-based pedagogical innovations. It presents the goals and rationale behind eduLab, an overview of the research projects conducted by its principal investigators during its funding tenure, as well as synthesizing thoughts on the entire endeavor. This book not only marks the achievements of the eduLab programme but also serves as inspiration for future projects. It presents Singapore education in action – a continually evolving and adapting education system that delivers a system well known for its high quality as much as it is forward-looking.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811644683
• ISBN 13: 9789811644689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 374
• Editor: Koh Elizabeth Ruilin, Hung David Wei Loong