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From: Mike Cole (mcole@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 03 2004 - 19:18:06 PDT

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The National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University is
setting up a Learning Sciences Lab (LSL) within the institute. The LSL
will serve as the champion of transformation of pedagogy enabled by ICT
in the schools. It is proposed as an experimental lab where ideas and
concepts related to learning interactions and teaching pedagogy can be
prototyped and assimilated into classrooms and schools. Through a
continuous spiral process of experimentation and exposing school
leaders, teachers, and students to workable ideas and developed
prototypes, LSL will seek to transform mindsets towards empowered
learning and life-long learning. It is intended to disrupt traditional
pedagogical mindsets and spur individuals to innovative thinking and
life-long learning; foster experimentations with emerging technologies
which "play with ideas" to transform learning and pedagogy in the
future; and engage in transformative capacity building and empowerment
as we translate these experimentations to curriculum redesign and
education in NIE and schools. The outputs and deliverables include
design products; models of cognition; practice-models; pedagogic-models;
virtual learning environments; models of online learning; etc.=20

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The LSL will work on six key research thrusts in ICT:

1. Teachers' beliefs towards the use of ICT=20

2. Students' meaning-making with ICT

3. Teachers' design of learning activities with ICT tools

4. Design of learning technologies

5. Scalability & sustainability of ICT

6. School ICT policies & practices.

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LSL is close to obtaining funding for core research projects within
these research thrusts. To help NIE set up LSL, we are looking for an
eminent chief scientist to help set up the lab and help define the
research programmes and processes. The candidate should be an
established researcher in the learning sciences who can attract key
international collaborators to do high quality research with local
researchers. The chief scientist position is available for a period of
three years and possibly up to five years with guaranteed research
funding.=20

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In addition, positions are also available for eminent professors to
spend short periods of time ranging from 3 months to a year to work on
LSL's research projects. Candidates may negotiate on the scope of the
research projects tapping on their expertise in their own core research
areas as long as their research can create impact on local school
practices.

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The chief scientist will benchmark the research work in the Lab with
international standards. LSL will elaborate our ICT research themes into
specific research foci and questions and benchmark against leading and
reputable institutes in the Learning Sciences, such as Northwestern
University, Indiana University, Center for Innovative Learning
Technologies (CILT) of Stanford University, Stanford Research Institute
(SRI), and Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the
University of Toronto. We currently have a team of staff whose networks
and collaborations connect us to leading professors in the field, such
as past and present presidents of professional associations and
international bodies, and editors of leading educational technology
journals. NIE currently has a Centre for Research into Pedagogy and
Practice (http://crpp.nie.edu.sg/ <http://crpp.nie.edu.sg/> ) with a
budget of S$48 million over five years pursuing research leading to
pedagogical transformations of schools in Singapore.

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The chief scientist and visiting professors will be offered professorial
terms and conditions comparable to US salaries. Positions are available
from January 2005 onwards.

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For enquiries, please contact:

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Chee-Kit Looi

Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group

National Institute of Education

1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616

Email: cklooi@nie.edu.sg

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