Ch 3 Our Partners enhanced learning has been implemented with teachers and higher education lecturers in Singapore, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Samoa. Since 2017, Joyce has been working with NAFA in various academic development initiatives. Besides serving as a keynote speaker in NAFA’s eFiesta, she has also conducted professional development workshops in instructional design for e-learning and action research for NAFA lecturers.
Dr Joyce Koh Hwee Ling is an Associate Professor at the Higher Education Development Centre of the University of Otago, New Zealand. She teaches and researches in the area of educational technology, specializing in student-centred pedagogies and teacher professional development. Joyce is internationally recognised for her work on design thinking in education and teacher professional development in technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) or knowledge for designing technologyenhanced learning. She has authored numerous well-cited articles in SSCI-listed journals and an academic book about student-centred pedagogies for enhancing teachers' TPACK through design thinking. She has also won several national and international research grants where her methodologies for teacher development in technology-
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These workshops have culminated in a book project documenting the technology- enhanced learning pedagogies implemented by NAFA instructors and a showcase of the pedagogical innovation of NAFA lecturers through the Action Research Chronicles Showcase. Joyce is currently working with NAFA as a collaborating institution in a project that is funded by the Internationalisation of the Curriculum Grant from the University of Otago. This project supports the translation of University of Otago's TechnologyEnhanced Learning and Teaching
programme curriculum to an international context through technology mentoring of NAFA instructors to facilitate their shift to online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
