Educational Qualifications
2015
PhD (Learning Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, HK
2008
MSc (Educational Leadership), Pittsburg State University, USA
2008
M.Ed (Higher Education), South China University of Technology, China
2005
BLit (English), South China University of Technology, China
Academic and Professional Experience
2025 - Present
Head of Programme, Master of Education
2019 - Present
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Singapore University of Social Sciences
2015 - 2018
Postdoc, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
2015
Research Assistant, Institute of medical and health science education, The
University of Hong Kong, HK
2009 - 2010
Assistant Lecturer, Institute of Higher Education, South China University of
Technology, China
Selected Publications
Lin, F. & Lim, W. Y. (2014). Instructors’ perceptions and use of feedback dashboard. Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Computers in Education. p.657-659
Lin, F., Li, C. C., Lim, W. Y., Lee, Y. H. (2014). Developing a feedback analytic tool to support instructor reflection. Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Computers in Education. p.341-346
Lin, F., & Puntambekar, S. (2024). Epistemic scaffolding: Understanding and designing the support for epistemic growth in science. International Journal of Science Education, 1-25.
Lin, F., & Sun, J.J. (2024). Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: A practical guide for designing synchronous online teaching in higher education. Information and Learning Sciences.
Lin, F., Low, W. Y., & Zhu, G.X. (2024). Teacher sensemaking in Knowledge Building professional development. Proceedings of annual meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Lin, F. (2024). Integrating Knowledge Forum to support knowledge building among adult learners. Proceedings of annual meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Lin, F., Zhu, G.X., & Chan, C. K. K. (2023). Do epistemically more sophisticated students always learn better than epistemically less sophisticated students in a constructivist learning context? Educational Psychology. 43(6), 583-603.
Lin, F., Lim, L., Lim, W. Y., Ho, Y.Y., & Tan, B. Z. (2023). Validating and applying an adapted OSLQ to examine adult learners’ online self-regulation. Higher Education Research and Development. 42(7). 1684-1699.
Zhu, G.X. & Lin, F. (2023). Teachers scaffold student discourse and emotions in Knowledge Building classrooms. Interactive learning environment, 32(7). 3279–3296
Lin, F., Low, W. Y., Zhu, G.X., & Teo, C.L. (2023). Examining university instructors’ conceptions and perceived changes in Knowledge Building professional development. Proceedings of annual meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences. P.1058-1061
Lin F. (2022). Knowledge building approach to teacher professional development. Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE). P. 678-680.
Lin, F. (2020). Synergizing the epistemic roles of scaffolds for epistemic practices. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. P.1803-1804
Chen, B., & Lin, F. (2020). Representational affordances for computer-supported collaborative learning. In P. Kendeou, P. Van Meter, A. List, & D. Lombardi (Ed.), Handbook of Learning from Multiple Representations and Perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
Lin, F., & Puntambekar, S. (2019). Designing epistemic scaffolding in CSCL. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. P.597-600. Lyon.
Lin, F., & Chan, C. K. K. (2018). Examining the role of computer supported knowledge-building discourse for epistemic and conceptual understanding. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 34(5), 567-579.
Lin, F., & Chan, C. K. K. (2018). Promoting elementary-school students’ epistemology of science through computer supported knowledge building discourse and epistemic reflection. International Journal of Science Education. 40(6), 668-687.
Lin, F. (2018). Characterizing elementary-school students’ epistemology of science: Science as collective theory building process. The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher. 27(6),487-498
Lin, F., Gnesdilow, D., Martin, N. D., Tissenbaum, C. L. D., & Puntambekar, S. (2018). Examining the role of explicit epistemic reflection in promoting students’ learning from digital text. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. p.240-247. UK.
Chan, C. K. K., Xu, C., & Lin, F. (2018). Knowledge building inquiry and reflection in developing children's epistemology of science. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. p.895-902. UK.
Lin, F. (2017). Fostering epistemic growth in CSCL environment. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. p. 940-941. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Lin, F., & Chan, C. K. K. (2017). Bridging students’ practical and formal epistemology of science through epistemic reflection in a computer-supported knowledge-building environment. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. p.867-868. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Gnesdilow, D., Fathema, N., Lin, F., Kang, S., Dornfeld, C., & Puntambekar, S. (2016). Exploring Middle school students’ science learning and discourse in physical and virtual labs. Proceedings of the 12th international Conference of the Learning Sciences. p.950-953. Singapore.
Lin, F., & Chan, C. K. K. (2015). Scaffolding scientific epistemologies through knowledge-building discourse and epistemic reflection. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. p.475-482. Gothenburg, Sweden.
Lin, F., Chan, C. K. K., & van Aalst, J. (2014). Promoting 5th graders’ views of science and scientific inquiry in an epistemic-enriched knowledge-building environment. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. p.126-133. Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Lin, F., & Chan, C. K. K. (2014). Improving 10-12 year olds’ epistemic and conceptual understanding in a computer-supported knowledge-building environment. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education. p.151-160. Japan: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.