Dr Wong Lung Hsiang Delivers Keynote on “Re-conceptualising Seamless Learning”
Dr Wong Lung Hsiang, Senior Research Scientist at the Office of Education Research, delivered a keynote address at the 27th Annual Conference of the Society for Media and Science. The conference was held in Winterthur, Switzerland, on 24 August 2020, with the theme of “Enabling Lifelong, Seamless Learning”. While the conference was held in-person due to the lifting of the travel ban within the European Union, Dr Wong, who is based in Singapore, delivered his keynote via Zoom.
As an influential researcher who has been pivotal in redefining and redesigning seamless learning over the past decade, Dr Wong was invited to bring conference participants on a journey of “soul-searching” for the field. His keynote, titled “Re-conceptualising Seamless Learning”—underpinned by his belief that seamless learning is a learning notion on its own right, rather than a special form of technology-enhanced learning—unpacked and critiqued the niche concepts of seamless learning. He contrasted seamless learning with other relevant learning notions, such as blended learning, self-directed learning, and lifelong learning, and investigated how seamless learning has been synthesised with other learning notions such as flipped learning and knowledge building.
Dr Wong also discussed the role of technology in facilitating and supporting seamless learning, elaborating on his recently concluded project—titled Streamlining the Designs of Seamless Science Learning for Wider Diffusion—on how seamless science learning had been implemented in primary schools. The results of the project, Dr Wong said, illustrate an application of seamless learning with less reliance on 1:1 (one-mobile-device-per-student) settings and leverages student-generated social media to carry out cross-contextual individual and collaborative learning instead.
