Interests

• Learning and instruction with emerging technologies
  
• Multimedia and interactive technologies
• Mobile and Web 2.0 technologies
• Information and new media literacy
  
• Online learning environment design
• Course management system (CMS)
  
• Virtual world
• Problem-solving and decision-making through gaming
• Psychological foundations of learning and instruction
  
• Cognitive and metacognitive processes of integrating multiple external representations (MERs)
• Self-regulated learning (SRL) in online environments
  
• Social nature of learning
  
• Contextual application of research methodology: 
• Quantitative
• Qualitative
• Design-based Research
• Technology affordance and interaction design
• Learning performance and retention in the STEM fields

• The effects of self-explanation and metacognitive interventions on undergraduate students' learning with multiple external representation in a web-based environment. (Dissertation Research) (January 2008-present)  
•  Responsibility
  Conceptualized project and conducted literature review; developed statistics learning content and strategy intervention; developed post-knowledge measure instrument.
• Using Twitter as an in-class real-time feedback system to enhance learning effectiveness and instructional efficiency. (August 2009-present)                                                 
•  Responsibility
  Conceptualized project and conducted literature review; interaction/instructional design.
• The effect of teaching and learning strategies on learning introductory astronomy (with MARS research team; PI: Dr. Barbara Grabowski and Dr. Scott Miller) (12/2007-present)
• Responsibility
  Knowledge measure evaluation (item analysis and content analysis); Mapping test items with Bloom's taxonomy
  
• Undergraduate Students' Self-regulated Learning Experiences in the Web-based Learning Environment [PI: Yu-Chang Hsu, with Dr. Jonathan Mathews, and Yu-hui Ching] (01/2007-12/2007) 
• Responsibility
  Project conceptualization, conducting literature review; formulating research questions and directions; interview; observation; data analysis; writing research paper
• A Predictive Model of Teacher Practice, Student Characteristics and Science Problem Solving in Middle School (with the KaAMS -Kids as Airborne Mission Scientist-research team , PI: Dr. Barbara Grabowski). (09/2005-05/2007) 
• Responsibility
  Conducting literature review; formulating research questions and directions; rating content validity of instrument; conducting data analysis for instrument reliability; recruiting statewide study participants ; conducting data analysis; writing research paper
  
• A Multifactor Analysis of the Effect of Navigation Mode on Students Learning from Textual and Visualized Instruction on Different Learning Outcomes (with Dr. Huifen Lin and Yu-hui Ching) (09/2005-05/2006)
• Responsibility
  Conducting literature review; formulating research questions and directions; creating websites as data collection instrument; participant recruitment; data collection; data analysis