Innovative Learning Design in an ICT-rich Environment: What are we doing in ECNU

The Seminar is jointly organized by CITE and Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. It is sponsored by Tin Ka Ping Visiting Fellowship Scheme.

In this talk, the presenter will introduce the studies that her team are doing in Shanghai. These are roughly two groups of studies that are being conducted in an ICT-rich environment dedicated to the innovative learning design. The first group of the studies is from the perspective that trying to innovate the learning design in support of teaching and learning, by making use of new ICT tools and applications such as e-Textbook, learning map, semantic diagram and social APPs, among which design, development and innovative use of e-Textbook in the classroom have been focused on. The second group of studies is from the perspective that trying to trace and model the learning behaviors in the ICT-rich learning environment, such as rating student’s classroom performance with iPad. The intention of these studies is to obtain an in-depth understanding of students’ learning and then provide timely and appropriate learning interventions.