Ben Chang

ˇ@ Ben Chang
Associate Professor,
Department of E-Learning Design and Management,
 
National Chiayi University,
Taiwan
E: bchang.twgmail.com
T: +886.5.2717301
A: Department of E-Learning Design and Management,
     National Chiayi University, Taiwan
62103

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2011   Multiple mice technology can provide the teachers an affordable cost of applying information technology in classrooms, and let the students have acceptable information technology accessibility. In this study, a multiple-mice learning system with five different competitive learning activities is developed. Through this system, the students can collaborate with their peers and compete with other groups by using a mouse individually and simultaneously on a shared display in English vocabulary tasks. The objective of this study is to investigate the studentsˇ¦ preferences toward various competitive activities in such a multimedia environment.
2009 ** Eye-tracking is a novel technology in analyzing studentsˇ¦ eye movement. The researcher is curious that whether there is any relationship between online game playing time and the reading performance. This research aims to analyze the reading performance and the online game playing time by using eye-tracking technology.
    ** Hearing impairing students they have some difficulties in communicating with their companions in learning and this research is dedicated to develop some short message service communication scaffolding tools to facilitate hearing impairing students in improving their communication quality with their peers.
    ** In 2004, a city-wide weather wireless sensor network, Taipei Weather Inquiry-Based Learning Network, composed of sixty school-based weather sensor nodes and a centralized weather archive server was established to facilitate students having weather science inquiry-based learning. Until now, there have been 171 registered teams which include 447 grade 4-9 students and 220 teachers involved in it.
    ** The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the reported social and affective strategy used by English language learners in the virtual world of Second Life. In addition, the researcher also began an attempt to understand the learnersˇ¦ perception toward learning languages in the virtual world.
2008 NCYU  I am the assistant professor of Department of E-Learning Design and Management, National Chiayi University, Taiwan.
2007 Infant ride mean with infant studying function and infant studying system. The Taiwanese patent number of this invention is I282528.

2005-2006

Visiting Postdoc.: I was the visiting postdoc. of Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL), Stanford University in 2005.

2005

CSCL 2005: I was the local organization chair of Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2005.
2004-2007 Secretary of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education from 2004.1 - 2007.12.

2003

EduCart: A portable cart that can be used to establish digital classroom environment, an one-to-one (one learner with one computer) learning environment, easily. The Taiwanese patent number of this invention is 583611-199970.

2002-2004

EduTowns: I was the team leader of EduTowns massive online communities system.

2000-2002

Joyce: An online domain-independent competitive gaming system devised to engage students in drill-and-practice exercises.

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