Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A Chronicle of Research and Development in a Singaporean Context

Associate Professor Seng Chee Tan was among the pioneers who helped to set up the Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was a Deputy Director of CRADLE@NTU from 2015 to 2016 and Acting Co-director from 2017 to 2019. Dr. Tan received his Ph.D. in Instructional Systems from Pennsylvania State University and joined the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in 2000. Prior to his appointment at CRADLE, he served in a number of roles promoting the use of ICT in education, including as Head of the Learning Sciences and Technologies academic group at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore, and as Assistant Director of the Educational Technology Division, Ministry of Education. His research interests include Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, knowledge creation in education, and teacher education. He is the first editor of the book Knowledge Creation in Education (Springer), published in 2014 and the first author of the book Pushing the frontier: A cohesive system-wide approach to integrating ICT into education (Springer), published in 2017.S.H. Annabel Chen is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and holds joint appointments at LKC Medicine and the NIE. She is a clinical neuropsychologist (licensed in Clinical Psychology, USA; Singapore Registry of Psychologists) by training and has worked with both adult and child populations. She received her doctorate in Clinical Rehabilitation Psychology from Purdue University in Indianapolis. After completing her clinical psychology internship in Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University School of Medicine, she went on to pursue a postdoctoral residency in Clinical Neuropsychology with Neurology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research affiliate at the Lucas MRS/I Center of Radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, and as an Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University's Clinical Psychology Graduate Program. She joined NTU in 2008 and served as the Associate Chair of Research at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences before becoming the Acting Director of CRADLE. Her research interests include higher cognition in the cerebellum, ageing neuroscience, deception neuroscience and education neuroscience.