Biographies

Dr Victor Lee
Dr Victor Lee did undergraduate studies in mathematics and computer science and doctoral studies in management.  He got his PhD degree from the University of London with research on knowledge management.  In 2007, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University.  Professionally, from December 1999 to January 2012, he was Director, School of Continuing and Professional Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  From June 1991 to December 1999, he was a programme leader and an associate professor in applied computing and management respectively at The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). At OUHK, he successfully developed and launched a highly regarded MBA programme with hundreds of students enrolled each year, who were mostly senior staff from both private and public sectors.  Before returning to Hong Kong in early 1990s, he had taught at the State University of New York in the United States, The American University of Paris in France, and the University of East Asia in Macau.  He joined The Hong Kong Management Association in January 2012 to take up the post of Executive Director. His academic publications appear in the Asia Pacific Business Review, International Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, and Academic Exchange Quarterly.  Currently he is an Honorary Professor of Management at Tianjin University of Commerce and a Visiting Professor at the Beijing Normal University’s MBA Programme in China, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Marketing.  Locally he has been a member of the Manpower Development Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government since 2007; and internationally he was appointed by the Changwon City Government of The Republic of Korea as a member of the Changwon City’s International Advisory Council in 2010.

Victor Lee

Paul Lam
Paul is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CLEAR) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He involves heavily in many teaching and learning research studies and services such as the use of technology for teaching and learning, promotion of the outcomes-based approach to learning, and the enhancement of teaching and learning spaces. Paul Lam’s research interests range widely across several key aspects of teaching and learning, including web-supported teaching and learning, mobile learning, case-based teaching and learning, learners’ characteristics, self and peer assessment, teaching and learning spaces, and English language teaching (ELT). More about him at: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/clear/people/Paul.html

Paul Lam

Prof Dr Gajaraj Dhanarajan

Gajaraj presently serves as the Hon. Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation at Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia.  His previous appointments include being the Founding Vice Chancellor of Wawasan Open University, the President of Commonwealth of Learning and Director of the Open Learning Institute now known as The Open University Hong Kong. Recently he was appointed to the Council of the United Nations University by the Secretary General. He holds the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Madras, a D.I.C. and an M.Sc. from the Imperial College of the University of London and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Aston in Birmingham, U.K. As a life-long advocate on Open and Distance Learning, he has contributed to global discussion on the subject and further, associated with the work of international development agencies.

Gajaraj Dhanarajan

David M. Kennedy
David is Associate Professor and Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He has over 35 years of teaching experience and published widely on the use of learning technologies in education including pedagogical frameworks to support their use, problem-based learning, visual and information literacies, and evaluation of curriculum innovations in a diverse number of academic domains. He has delivered over 50 invited talks and workshops in the past eight years, providing Keynote presentations, professional development and seminars related to eLearning and mLearning, curriculum design, information literacy, using free and open source software, and outcomes-based approaches to teaching and learning to institutions in 16 countries. He has just completed a three year study on the use of ubiquitous technologies in higher education. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the 'Journal of Multimedia and Hypermedia', the 'International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (IJTLHE)', and the Journal 'Education as Change'.

David Kennedy

Dr Dick Ng’ambi
Dick is an Associate Professor and a the leading researcher in mobile learning for developing contexts. He is currently the Programme Coordinator of a postgraduate programme in Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town (www.cet.uct.ac.za/masters). He has published widely, presented keynotes, workshops and invited papers at many international conferences. His most recent work involves using mobile devices to empower learners to become co-producers of knowledge, especially in environments of marginalised learners.

Dick Ng’ambi

Chee-Keong Chong
Chee-Keong  is a lecturer in the Faculty of Business & Finance, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia. He lectures Quantitative Techniques to business, accounting and finance students. He has thirty over years of experience in teaching Mathematics and Physics in Malaysian secondary school. He joined UTAR in 2009. He graduated with B.Sc (Hons.) in Mathematics from Universiti Sains Malaysia, M.Sc (Management) from Universiti Utara Malaysia and M.IT from Multimedia University Malaysia. His research interest is on the using of technology in the teaching & learning of Mathematics.

Chee-Keong Chong

Susan Crichton
Susan is an associate professor at UBC.  Her research explores appropriate technologies for challenging contexts, typically found in developing countries. She has worked in Bhutan, East Africa, and Pakistan.  She is the founder of jiFUNzeni (http://jifunzeni.com/) – an organization that designs to match content development and delivery to match user needs.   Details about Susan’s work can be found at http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/education/faculty/suscrich.html

Susan Crichton

Dr Khitam Shraim
Khitam is the director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and the e-Learning Unit at An-Najah National University, Palestine. Her research interests focus on promoting creative learning and innovative teaching in higher education particularly in the area of technology-enhanced educational change.  Khitam holds a Ph.D from the University of Manchester, UK. Her PhD was about the potential of the Web-based interactive mapping applications for  e-participation and enhancement of  public knowledge through visualization and spatial empowerment in educational issues. She also holds MBA in Finance and a BSc.  in Computer Science and a Higher Diploma in Educational Planning from the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris.

Khitam Shraim

Christina Dinsmore
Christina is a Senior Lecturer (Strategy) at Southampton Business School (SBS) within Southampton Solent University (SSU). She is Course Leader for the suite of FdA Business (blended learning) courses currently running at SSU.  Christina was a project member of the Discipline-focused Learning Technology Enhancement Academy project ‘Working with e-champions to enhance flexible learning’ which was supported by the UK Higher Education Academy.  She is a member of SSU’s Blended Learning Action Support Team, the Blended Learning Research Cluster and is currently working on publications for the Research Exercise Framework, with an emphasis on the student experience.

Christina Dinsmore

Dr. Robert J. Wierzbicki
Robert is professor of Online Media at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida, Germany. Professor Wierzbicki is expert in digital media, author of numerous publications and winner of prestigious awards in communication media. He is evaluator in accreditation of educational programs and specialist in international standards and procedures. Since 2009 he is the head of the Research Group Ambient Media (www.fgam.de) at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida and the science advisor for diverse research projects at the university. His current research focus is in the area of converged media and new pedagogical approaches for teaching in virtual environments.

Robert J. Wierzbicki

Dr Joseph Fong
Joseph is a fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society, the founder chairman of the Hong Kong Computer Society Database Special Interest Group, and the honorable founder chairman of Hong Kong Web Society and International Hybrid Learning Society. Fong had worked in the electronic data processing in US for 11 years, and came back to Hong Kong as an academician since 1988. His research interests are in database, data warehousing, data mining XML and Web-Based Learning. His above 100 publications include SCI Journals, Conferences, Patent (US), edited books, and an authored text book on "Information Systems Reengineering and Integration" 2nd edition by Springer in 2006. He had been a program manager of a M.Sc. of Staffordshire University hosted at City University of Hong Kong for a decade and teaches Data warehousing and data mining, Data Engineering, Database Systems  and Introduction to Database Systems including XML technology. Dr. Fong is a former editorial board member of International Journal of Web Information Systems.

Joseph Fong

Reggie Kwan
Reggie is the Professor and President of Caritas Institute of Higher Education and Caritas Bianchi College of Careers.  Before joining Caritas to build a Catholic university in Hong Kong, he was the Head of Computing and Mathematics at the Open University of Hong Kong.  Prior to that, he was the Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Montana Tech of the University of Montana from mid-80’s to late 90’s.  Though a Computer Scientist by training, he has over 100 publications in the areas of e-learning.

Reggie Kwan

Last updated 13 April 2012