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Contact Details

Phone
+64 21 0830 6142
Email
swee.kin.loke@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professional Practice Fellow
Department
Department of Medicine (Wellington)
Qualifications
GradDipTchg(NIE), M.S.Ed(CU), PhD(Otago)
Teaching
Kin is a Professional Practice Fellow in Teaching and Learning at the University of Otago (Wellington) where he specialises in educational technology and instructional design. In his teaching role, Kin supports academic staff in designing and delivering effective distance-taught courses, drawing on his experiences from tertiary institutions in Singapore and New Zealand.

Research

With a PhD from Otago, his research explores how virtual worlds and computer simulations enhance learning, particularly in health education contexts. He has published on simulation-based learning, dispositional behaviour assessment, and game-based citizenship education (see Google Scholar profile).

Publications

Loke, S.-K. (2018). Explaining how students can learn the dispositional components of physical world actions by performing virtual world actions (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/7974 Awarded Doctoral Degree

Moskal, A. C. M., Loke, S.-K., & Hung, N. (2016). Challenges implementing social constructivist learning approaches: The case of Pictation. Proceedings of the 33rd Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Conference: Show Me The Learning. (pp. 446-454). Retrieved from http://2016conference.ascilite.org/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

McDonald, J., & Loke, S.-K. (2016). Discursive constructions of teacher in an educational technology journal. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 32(5), 77-93. doi: 10.14742/ajet.2787 Journal - Research Article

Al-Sallami, H., & Loke, S.-K. (2016). Using a coagulation simulation software to learn a complex dose-response relationship. In N. Wright (Ed.), Proceedings of the Distance Education Association New Zealand (DEANZ) Conference: There and Back: Charting Flexible Pathways in Open, Mobile and Distance Education. (pp. 130-133). Retrieved from http://conference.deanz.org.nz/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Loke, S.-K., & Golding, C. (2016). How to do things with mouse clicks: Applying Austin’s speech act theory to explain learning in virtual worlds. Educational Philosophy & Theory, 48(11), 1168-1180. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1138394 Journal - Research Article

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