• Research Directions: International Business, Management and Organizational Behavior
• Prior to Dr. Xu's appointment as Deputy Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Renmin University, he held positions as the Dean of the Graduate School of Business Deputy Director of the Center for Business Administration Education, the Director of the Institute of Foreign Economic Management and the Director of the McGill-Renmin Management Education Program.
• He has been a visiting professor at the University of Technology in Sydney, the Praxair Visiting Professor of Management at New York State University at Buffalo, a Visiting Scholar at McGill University in Montreal and a Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, and the Kania School of Management at the University of Scranton. Recognized as a leading authority in business education throughout China, he is a member of China's National MBA Education Advisory committee of the State Council of China and is a director of the China Enterprise Management Association.
• His Ph.D. is from People's University of China in economics.

Ron Oliver is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. During his career, he has made use of technology to engage and motivate many thousands of students and he has always sought to understand what works and why. He has had considerable experience in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of technology-facilitated learning and learning resources. He has always enjoyed sharing his passion for learning and teaching and has written and spoken widely on his research and development in this area. He is widely recognized as someone with a broad knowledge and useful insights in online learning with a strong capability for effectively communicating and sharing his ideas. Ron has received considerable recognition for his achievements including awards for excellence in learning and teaching and excellence in research and research supervision. Among his awards are the prestigious AACE Fellowship and Associate Fellowship of the Carrick Institute in Australia.

Paul Grist leads Product Marketing for Blackboard International, serving as a bridge between Blackboard, our clients, and the education industry. Over the past 5 years Paul has worked extensively with higher education, K12 and professional institutions in Europe, the Middle East, Russia, SE Asia and Australasia, advising on technology strategy to support academic goals. Paul’s expertise includes industry and sector policy; outcomes and assessment strategies; transformation agendas; innovation management.

Glen O'Grady is the Director for the Centre for Educational Development at the Republic Polytechnic Singapore. Glen is a founding member of the Polytechnic (2002) and has helped to guide the institution in respect to its unique philosophy of problem-based learning. The Centre provides leadership, training and certification around problem-based learning as well as research in innovative teaching and learning. Glen specialises in working with individuals, groups of teachers, departments, faculties and institutions in curriculum design and the creation of assessment systems that foster and measure learning. He has helped to facilitate the development and implementation of strategic plans for a wide array agencies seeking to rethink the way they devise education and training in countries including Singapore, China, Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia. He is also editor of the popular newsletter Reflections on PBL. He recently chaired the 2007 International Symposium on PBL – “Reinventing PBL” and is a member of the Pan-American PBL organizing committee for their International Conferences.

Training Manager of the eLearning Access Program of the University.

Mdm Ong Obtained her B.Sc. (1st honor) from National University of Singapore. She has taught math in Singapore Polytechnic for thirty five years. She obtained the Excellence in Teaching Award.

Dr. Xiao Joined Singapore Polytechnic as a lecturer since 2006. She obtained her Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University.

Dr Marissa Wettasinghe is an Assistant Professor in the Learning Sciences & Technologies Academic Group at the National Institute of Education. She specializes in the use ICT for mainstream education and special education. She also heads the Centre of IT in Education at NIE. In her role, she and her team are responsible for all eLearning activities, projects, development and acquisition of e-tools and applications for academic staff in the institute. Her areas of research interest include the innovative use of ICT for teaching and learning, continuing professional development of teachers with the support of ICT in Singapore schools.

Mazlan is a Senior Instructional Designer at the Centre for IT in Education at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He has over 10 years of experience working with web technologies and is currently researching the affordances of eLearning technologies and web 2.0 in teaching and learning for his PhD studies. He conducts workshops on instructional design, pedagogical strategies and implementation for online learning and strongly promotes the use of ICT in education. He is also a certified multimedia producer who enjoys developing new applications and enhancing current technologies to fit the needs of learners.

Lilian Vrijmoed is the Dean of Student Learning at the City University of Hong Kong. She is charged with the responsibility in mapping the strategic direction and plans to transforming undergraduates from students to competent professionals and to establishing a comprehensive outcomes-based teaching and learning culture in the University.

Eva Wong is the Director of the Education Development Office, at the City University of Hong Kong. With experience and expertise in IT systems implementation, she has been involved in the successful implementation of various systems in CityU. Her current interest is using IT to enhance student learning.

Dr. Wu is a Senior Fellow with the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. Presently, he teaches and researches on the general areas of Archival Informatics and Electronic Document and Record Management Systems, with particular emphasis on Web Archiving and Web Intelligence. Before joining NTU, he was co-founder and principle consultant of Mustard Technology, which specializes in multilingual search and data quality technologies. He has two decades of experiences in the theoretical and practical aspects of information technology and information management. A graduate of University of Michigan with majors in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics, he became a Senior R&D Member of Kent Ridge Digital Labs in the 90’s, during which he gained two US Patents for his invention on search and language technologies. Professionally, Dr. Wu has also provided IT consultation service to several government agencies, banks and telecommunication companies in Singapore and around the region.

Prof Jeremy Williams is Chief Academic Officer at Knowledge Universe. He is also Adjunct Professor at QUT in Australia, Reims Management School in France, and U21Global in Singapore. Jeremy has been a practitioner and researcher in the field of online education for 15 years.

David currently manages Blackboard Global Services for Asia Pacific assisting clients to enhance their educational and institutional outcomes. Prior to joining Blackboard David managed the implementation of the eLearning strategy for the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom and enjoyed a successful career within the corporate training and development sector. David has over 19 years of national and international consulting experience within corporate, government, HE and K-12 and has presented at a number of international conferences. Recognised as a thought leader in the effective application of online learning pedagogies David’s professional interests rest in the area on improving the educational experiences of staff and students through the application of effective online collaboration pedagogies.

Anthony was Head of the Instructional Technology Centre in the SAF. He was invited to share SAF eLearning experience at NTU in 2002. Details see http://www.sigma-mall.com/sigma-solutions/consultants.html Education background: MA(IDT) from NTU (2002) and a MA(SS) from ANU (1995). BSc (Civil Engr) from Japan (1982)

Santha Thanasingam is a lecturer at the Language and Communication Centre of the Nanyang Technological University. She coordinates English Proficiency for her Centre. She is currently involved in research that evaluates learning outcomes of a restructured curriculum that has introduced a scaffolded-blended approach to teaching English Proficiency. Her most recent co-authored paper on using technology in teaching English proficiency was presented at ascilite 2007. She is one of the recepients of the 2008 ascilite community mentoring award.

Alan Soong is a Senior Assistant Director (Faculty Development) at the Centre for Educational Development, NTU. His areas of interest include professional development in higher education, asynchronous and synchronous communication tools for teaching and learning. Alan served as a co-chair for ascilite 2007 conference (http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/singapore07/).

Mr. Ch’ng has been involved in leading and managing Nee Ann Polytechnic’s Mobile eLearning (MeL) since 1999. He has helped to articulate and steer its pedagogy and social impacts on students and staff, as well as to promote it as an institutional trademark. He presently the Deputy Director of Nee Ann Polytechnic’s Teaching & Learning Centre. He had previously held a wide range of appointments, including teaching roles in IT and management roles in the IT faculty. He holds Master degrees in Mathematics and in Computational Science

Mr. Lim Peng Heng has played a key role in implementing and managing Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s Mobile eLearning for the past 6 years. He has been directly involved in the Wireless Campus, Student Notebook Ownership and more so in the infrastructure setup for our eLearning system (Blackboard). Mr. Lim was initially seconded from the Computer Centre to the Teaching & Learning Centre, and is now the Manager for its T&L Infrastructure & Service section.

Joyce Tan is an education advisor in the Singapore Polytechnic [SP]. She manages curriculum and pedagogic development matters for SP diploma programmes. Joyce was previously at the Ministry of Education, English Language Unit, Curriculum Planning and Development Division where she managed the national English Language curriculum development in Singapore.

Kevin Anthony Jones is a full-time lecturer in the School of Computer Engineering; he joined NTU in July 2002. His interests are in software development and implementation, and he is an expert in UML. Previous to NTU, Kevin was involved in the provision of adult education, both in the public and private sectors. He has developed professional training programmes for software consultants, software developers, and communication equipment technicians. He served in the Canadian Signals School as a Chief Instructor and Computer Course developer. In NTU, Kevin has been a course coordinator since 2004. From this vantage point, he has been studying the Asian student, and conducting research into the effectiveness of teaching practices, both traditional and new (blended learning). After completing the first part of the Certificate in Teaching for Higher Education, Kevin has amassed considerable data on student feedback for these initiatives.

Mr Paul Gagnon is the Senior Deputy Director in the Centre for Educational Development at Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include how to successfully morph existing effective F2F pedagogical practices to online learning environments, and the relevance of the latest research in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience to advance online teaching and learning.

Carmel McNaught (BSc (hons), DipEd, MEd, PhD) is Director and Professor of Learning Enhancement in the Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CLEAR) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Carmel has several decades of experience in teaching and research in higher education in Australasia and southern Africa, working in the discipline areas of chemistry, science education, second language learning, eLearning, and higher education curriculum and policy matters. Current research interests include evaluation of innovation in higher education, strategies for embedding learning support into the curriculum, and understanding the broader implementation of the use of technology in higher education. She is on the editorial board of 14 international journals and is a prolific author with over 250 academic publications. Further details at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/clear/staff/staff7.htm