SPEAKERS
Lynde Tan
Lynde Tan is a multi-award-winning educator with expertise in teacher education, language and literacy education, educational technology, and digital pedagogy. In 2019, her teaching excellence was acknowledged when she received the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning Award. Lynde’s research scholarship examines pedagogical issues pertinent to redefining education using emergent technologies. In 2019, Lynde was the recipient and Chief Investigator of the highly prestigious and competitive Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) Research Grant. She has successfully led and completed the nationally funded project on learning and teaching language and literacy with augmented reality. Her work has led to the publication of a book entitled “Between Worlds: Enhancing Students’ Multimodal Literacy Practices with Augmented Reality” in 2022. The book is currently used as a national resource for primary school teachers’ professional development across states in Australia. Her ongoing research focuses on dialogic teaching in online spaces, funded by the Collier Foundation in Australia. In 2021, Lynde’s research excellence was recognized when she won the People’s Choice Award in WSU’s 2021 Research Impact Competition.
Dat Bao
Dat Bao has worked with Leeds Beckett University in the UK, Cornell University in the US, the National University of Singapore, the Assumption University of Thailand, and presently Monash University. His current research interests include silence studies, creative thinking, curriculum development, world-related learning, intercultural education, and creative pedagogy in language education. With research experiences in Australia, China, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and the UK, he has nearly 80 publications in books and journals. He has given numerous presentations in four continents including being a plenary speaker at international conferences. His recent books include Understanding silence and reticence: Ways of participating in SLA (Bloomsbury, 2014), Poetry for Education: Classroom ideas that inspire creative thinking (Xlibris, 2017), Creativity and innovations in ELT materials: Looking beyond the current design (Multilingual Matters, 2018), Transforming pedagogies through engagement with learners, teachers and communities (co-edited with Thanh Pham) (Springer, 2021), Silence in English language pedagogy: From research to practice (CUP, forthcoming). In 2018 Dat Bao received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Monash University.
Hyo-Jeong So
Dr. Hyo-Jeong So is Professor in the Department of Educational Technology, Ewha Womans University in Korea. She received her Ph.D. degree from Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University. Her main research interests include mobile learning, computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), and informal learning. She is particularly interested in examining how to integrate emerging technologies for teaching and learning from collaborative knowledge building perspectives. Currently, she is serving as Editor-in-Chief of Research in Practice in Technology-Enhanced Learning (RPTEL), and associate editors of Learning: Research and Practice, and IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. She has conducted several research projects on emerging technologies in education funded by Google, Microsoft, and the Korean National Research Foundation and international development projects in Indonesia and Mongolia. She has published several research papers in the international journals and working paper series with UNESCO.
Adam Anshori
Dr. Adam Anshori is a lecturer at Universitas Islam Indonesia. His research interests are translation studies, applied linguistics, and educational literature. His recent research is on the word-order typology of English-Indonesian phrases and developing a word order formula as a guidance to translate English-Indonesia phrases focusing on the syntactic order. The research was a part of his doctoral program dissertation. He is interested in introducing and developing theories and methods on linguistic translation research. He is currently doing research on the typology of languages in Indonesia.
Rizki Farani
Dr. Rizki Farani is a lecturer at Universitas Islam Indonesia. Her research interest is blended learning, online learning, and self-regulation in digital learning. Her recent research is developing scaffolded self-regulatory blended learning model to improve students’ competences in managing digital information. The research was a part of her doctoral program dissertation. For further research, she is interested in investigating more phenomena related to mental well-being in a digital learning.