Scaling Educational Innovations

This volume stimulates critical discussions of the different variants of implementation, translation and scaling research approaches. It presents an integrated collection of different implementation and scaling studies that analyse the different facets of co-design, learning design, curriculum development, technology development, professional development and programme implementation. It also provides critical reflections on their impact and efficacies on transforming practices, informing policy-making, and theory derivation and improvement. The chapters in this volume will provide readers a deeper understanding of scaling of educational innovations in diverse socio-cultural contexts.

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 College Singapore.