Moving Beyond Grades to Purposeful Learning: Lessons from Singaporean Research

Professor David Hung was Dean of the Office of Education Research. He is a Professor at the National Institute of Education with teaching and research interests in learning, in particular, social-cultural orientations to cognition and communities of practice. He was also Head of EduLab at the Office of Education Research, an initiative designed to surface and spread ground-up Information and Communication Technology-based pedagogical innovations. He was the former Head of Educational Research Administration and Communication, Office of Education Research. He is currently a contributing editor of Educational Technology.
Professor Hung has conducted research in Learning and Instructional Technologies, Constructivism and Social Constructivism, Learning in Communities of Practice, and other related topics in the field, in recent years. Professor Hung's publications are internationally known, and he is well-recognised in the learning sciences.

洪教授曾擔任教育研究辦公室的院長。他是國立教育研究院的教授，專注於學習的教學與研究，特別是社會文化對認知的影響及實踐社群。他同時也是教育研究辦公室EduLab的負責人，該計畫旨在發掘並推廣基於資訊與通信科技的自下而上的教學創新。他曾擔任教育研究辦公室的教育研究行政與溝通部門負責人。目前，他是《教育科技》期刊的貢獻編輯。

近年來，洪教授在學習與教學技術、建構主義與社會建構主義、實踐社群中的學習及其他相關領域進行了研究。洪教授的出版物在國際上享有盛譽，他在學習科學領域也受到廣泛認可。