Dr Carol K.K. Chan is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. She has worked as a cognitive researcher at OISE/University of Toronto and a Visiting Scholar at The Centre for Reading at University of Illinois. She is now Director of the Strategic Research Theme in the Sciences of Learning at The University of Hong Kong. She is also Co-Chair of the Special Interest Group on CSCL/Learning Sciences for APSCE. Her research area is in Learning Sciences focusing on cognition, technology and instruction. Her current research on knowledge building focuses on designing and assessing collaborative knowledge building supported with technology and examining the socio-cultural context for classroom innovation. Her other research interests include epistemology and conceptual change, assessment in online learning, and teacher cognition in knowledge building communities. She is now Director of the largest knowledge-building teacher network internationally examining cognitive models of teacher learning for innovation in classrooms. She is a recipient of numerous research awards; she has won the Outstanding Dissertation Award from Canadian Association of Educational Psychology, first prize in the Best Research Paper Award from The Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference (CSCL, 2005) and 2nd prize in the Most Usable Research Award from Virtual Design Centre, NASA-classroom for future classroom (2006) on research in knowledge building. Her research is published in several top journals in the field including The Journal of Learning Sciences, American Educational Research Journal, and Cognition and Instruction. Her award-winning paper in CSCL is published in International Journal of Computer-supported Collaborative Learning, a new and leading journal in the field. She also demonstrated innovation in university teaching integrating research knowledge in her teaching. She is a recipient of two teaching awards as University Teacher Fellow and Distinguished Faculty Teacher.

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