Wei Wei Goh

Wei Wei Goh is a PhD student at the University of Derby, UK, in the faculty of Business, Computing and Law. Her research area is in E-learning Technologies and she has been working on education research for the past five years, which has included online technologies, critical thinking skills, learning theories including cognitive & social psychology.In the last three years, the key aspect of her research and practice has been focused on the construction and sharing of knowledge that facilitate critical thinking in higher education based on emerging technologies that support and affect the interaction for learning with particular interests, such as the use of integration and evaluation of information and communication e-learning technologies and their impact on the student’s learning style.To support the theoretical background, her research also involves teaching. For the past six years she has taught modules in traditional classrooms and more recently online classes. A background in teaching IT brought her into contact with technologies such as web 2.0 including construction of wiki’s and blogs utilising such tools has stimulated and improved the learning amongst her students.She has been involved in designing, implementing and researching web 2.0 technologies in order to enhance her students’ collaborative learning and knowledge building. Her focus has been on using the web 2.0 technology to facilitate critical thinking skills of students at postgraduate level.She has extended her research to how computer technology expands the opportunities of learning and increases the communication across various contexts. Her current research examines the perception of students and tutors in using wikis as a learning tool to facilitate critical thinking. Her participants are both learners and tutors where they learn the theory, content and the methods that will prepare them for their teaching futures.She has published and presented conference proceedings papers on topics including the perception of students and tutors in using learning technologies. Her recent paper titled Perceptions of Module Leaders in Utilising Online Technologies to Facilitate Critical Thinking had been presented in International Association of Technology, Education and Development Conference at Valencia, Spain during March 2008.