Overview
- Shares real field-based experiences concerning the sustainability and scaling of educational innovations
- Adopts broad cross-cultural perspectives to provide a critical understanding of the concerns of sustainability and scaling
- Studies innovations from multiple perspectives: systemic, macro, meso and micro levels
Part of the book series: Education Innovation Series (EDIN)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Case Studies of Scaling
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International Networks for Scaling Professional Development of Teachers
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Closing Chapter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Chee-Kit Looi is Professor of Education in the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the Founding Head of Learning Sciences Lab, Singapore from 2004 to 2008, the first research centre devoted to the study of the sciences of learning in the Asia-Pacific region. His research interests include sustainability and scalability of educational innovations, mobile and ubiquitous technologies, computer-supported collaborative learning. He is the PI or co-PI of several research projects funded by the National Research Foundation, Singapore. His research has created some inroads into impacting school practices. His work on rapid collaborative learning has created routine practices of collaborative work in some schools over a couple of years. His research on seamless learning has made good progress toward creating a sustainable curricular model in schools. He is a member of the executive committee of the International AI & Education Society, the past president of the Asia-Pacific Society of Computers in Education, and a Steering Committee and founder member of the Global Chinese Society on Computers in Education. He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of CSCL, and Journal of the Learning Sciences.
Laik Woon Teh is a Senior Fellow at the Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, NTU, Singapore. His research interest is the application of statistical and measurement models for policy analysis and programme evaluation. He is involved in the design and review of policy-related research projects in the Ministry of Education and the other public sector agencies in Singapore. Laik Woon is concurrently a Principal Research Specialist at the Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore where he oversees MOE Corporate Research Office that is responsible for research coordination, translation and utilization. He is a member of the Economics Experts Group, Civil Service CollegeSingapore.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scaling Educational Innovations
Editors: Chee-Kit Looi, Laik Woon Teh
Series Title: Education Innovation Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-537-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-536-5Published: 21 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1215-0Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-537-2Published: 09 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-4874
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4882
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 288
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Learning & Instruction