Editors
- Series Editor
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- Wing On Lee
- Rebekah Wei Ying Lim
- Horn Mun Cheah
About the Editor
Professor Wing On Lee is Executive Director of Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences, and is concurrently Professor at President’s Office. Prior to this appointment, he served as Distinguished Professor at Zhengzhou University, China, where he established founded two major research centres, namely the International and Comparative Education Research and the Central Plains Education Research Centre at the School of Education, and was Founding Director for both Centres. He was previously Vice-President and Chair Professor of Comparative Education at the Open University of Hong Kong (2014-17) and Dean of Education Research at National Institute of Education, Singapore (2010-14). He also previously served at Hong Kong Institute of Education as Vice President (Academic) & Deputy to President, Acting President and Chair Professor of Comparative Education, Founding Dean of the School of Foundations in Education, Head of two Departments and Centre for Citizenship Education (2007-2010). In 2005, he was invited by University of Sydney to be Professor and Director (International). Prior to his service in Australia, he served at the University of Hong Kong as Associate Dean of Education and Founding Director of Comparative Education Research Centre. He is a world-renowned scholar in the fields of comparative education and citizenship education. He is former President of the World Council of Comparative Education (2010-13) and served as Honorary Professor in many esteemed universities, including the University of Hong Kong, University of Sydney and Beijing Normal University. Professor Lee has published 34 books and over 180 journal articles and book chapters; he is also the co-Editor for three Book Series, and was former Editor of the Asian-Pacific Journal of Education.Rebekah Lim is Associate Professor and Director of the Teaching & Learning Centre at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). She leads the Centre in areas of academic development of lecturers, academic support for learners, and Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. Her research interests include professional identities, teacher learning and technology-enabled pedagogy; areas in which her research grant awards and publications are based on. Her other awards include the Hewlett Packard Innovation in IT in Education, Dean’s commendation for research award, and the teaching excellence award 2011 & 2013. She has served as consultant to both local schools and international bodies, such as the Commonwealth of Learning, and more recently Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization, Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Graduate Study & Research in Agriculture (SEAMEO SERCA) in areas of professional development and technology-enabled learning.
Horn Mun Cheah is the Assistant Provost at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. He is concurrently the Dean of the S R Nathan School of Human Development. He was Director, Educational Technology Division, at the Ministry of Education, Singapore from 2008-2013. His then responsibilities included planning and implementation of the 3rd ICT Masterplan for Education. Prior to this, he was Dean of Foundation Programmes at the National Institute of Education taking charge of all initial teacher preparation programmes. He received his PhD for research work on High Temperature Superconductivity from Cambridge University. His present research interests include the effective integration of ICT into education, assessment practices and theory-practice link in higher education. He was a member of the Horizon K12 Advisory Board, the ATC21S Executive Board, and the NEXT-TELL International advisory panel. He is currently on the board of Singapore Centre for Chinese Language and Temasek Foundation Innovates.