Assessing New Media Literacy: The Singapore Case

Der-Thanq Chen

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 94–101

This project is part of a large scale survey study aiming at: (a) assessing the level of new media literacy and competencies of Singapore school students; and (b) exploring factors that may affect the new media literacy of students. Prior to the...

Topics: Race, pedagogical issues, Country-Specific Developments, New Roles for Teachers/Learners

Leveraging Para-Communities in Fostering Adaptive Schools: Towards Adaptive Organizations

David Hung; Der Thanq Chen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3777–3779

In the paper, we discuss problems related to traditional hierarchical organizations and argue that adaptability is important for organizations to survive in the 21st century. Expanding on Bransford’s (1999) notion of adaptive expert, we propose a...

Rules for Online Argumentation and Discussion: A Work in progress Report

Der-Thanq Victor Chen; David Hung

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 2212–2215

This paper describes and discusses the Project ROAD - Rules for Online Argumentation and Discussion. The paper in particular discusses the mediating importance of rules to be well established for online discussions with the complementary emphasis of ...

Further refinements of conjecture mapping for design-based research

Der-Thanq "Victor" Chen; Jing Wu

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 852–855

In our earlier paper (Wu & Chen, 2018), we proposed a refinement of Sandoval’s conjecture mapping with two major changes. We replaced embodiment with design principle instantiations (DP-Is) to tighten up the relationship between conjecture mapping...

Topics: Design Principles, Evaluating for quality improvement, Participatory learning and media

Towards a Community Incubator: The ICAP Design Framework for Social Constructivist Educational Designers

Der Thanq "Victor" Chen; David Hung

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2338–2347

This paper highlights the often-mentioned mismatch between the more social constructivistic oriented pedagogy and the traditional instructional design model. Such a framework is important as a design process relevant to the work of CSCL. Any...

Topics: Community, Instructional Design

Fostering Divergent Thinking in the Mandarin Language Classroom through IT-Enhanced DRTA

Jackie Jing-Fong Hsu; Yin Mei Wong; Der-Thanq Chen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 1748–1752

Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) is a teaching strategy used in English language classrooms through using predicting questions to enhance students' thinking. Since it is very important for Mandarin language teachers to incorporating...

Topics: Classrooms, Languages, Students

A Journey on Refining Rules for Online Discussion: Implications for the Design of Learning Management Systems

Der-thanq Chen; Yu-mei Wang; David Hung

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 2009) pp. 157–173

Research on asynchronous online discussions has primarily focused on their efficacy in relation to learning outcomes. Rarely are there investigations on how the design of online learning activities or how discussions could be incorporated into...

Topics: Networking Technologies, eLearning, Internet, Instructional Design, Educational Technology

Hypermedia Competencies

Der-Thanq Chen; Liang Rose; Yu-mei Wang

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 23, No. 2 (April 2014) pp. 135–144

ABSTRACT: Hypermedia has received increasing attention since the 1980s and this has been followed by an increasing interest in utilizing hypermedia in the domain of education. Many successful projects have been reported. In most cases, students used ...

Fostering new media literacy: Course design principles using digital stories and social media

Wei Leng Neo; Wei Ching Lee; Der Thanq Chen; Jing Wu

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 877–882

Technology proliferates a range of modes and media by which we communicate today. As an exemplar, social media provides a platform for people to express their ideas and experiences of the world through their creation and participation....

Topics: Participatory learning and media, Design Principles

New Media Literacy of School Students in Singapore

Der-Thanq "Victor" Chen; Tzu-bin Lin; Jen-yi Li; Ling Lee

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 98–102

This paper reports findings from a large-scale study investigating new media literacy of school students in Singapore. The conceptual framework for new media literacy adopted in this study can be found in our previous paper (Chen, Wu & Wang, 2011). ...

Topics: Country-Specific Developments

Dimensions of Metaphor Consistency in Computer-Based Learning (CBL) Design: Lessons Learned from Project Justice Bao

Der-Thanq Chen; Angela F. L. Wong; Jackie J. F. Hsu

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 11, No. 3 (2002) pp. 251–266

Project Justice Bao is an endeavor to develop a multimedia instructional CD-ROM that utilizes computer technology to motivate students in learning the Chinese language. This article presents some lessons related to metaphor consistency learned from...

Topics: Computers