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Ke Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Instructional
Technology
College of Education
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
Email: ke.zhangATwayne.edu
Tel: 313-577-1679 (office)
313-577-1728 to schedule an appointment
Fax: 313-577-1693
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Research Interests
- computer supported collaborative work/learning
- computer mediated communication
- design and development of interactive multimedia
- virtual teams
- online learning communities
- technologies as cognitive tools
- media selection and media behaviors in web-based learning
environments
- collaborative problem solving
- technology integration
- technology-related change and adoption
- social impacts of emerging technologies
- e-learning: policy, perception and practice
Research Specialty
- computer supported collaborative learning/work
- problem solving; online collaborative
learning
- cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies
for (online) collaborative problem solving
- media behaviors in online learning
environments
- courseware design, development and
evaluation
- courseware copyright
- social impacts of collaborative technologies
Active Research Projects
- Online project-based learning
- Online collaborative problem solving
- Building learning communities in blended or completely
online graduate courses
- Integrating various technologies for online learning (a
book in preparation with Dr. Curtis Bonk under contract with
Jossey-Bass)
- A series of research projects on assessing, defining, improving,
and re-evaluating clinical teaching in medical schools
- Systemic change, knowledge transfer and diffusion of technology
among faculty, students and administrators at the university
level
- E-learning in Taiwan and Mainland China
- Integrating learning technologies in underrepresented schools
Teaching Specialty
- educational multimedia research and development
- authoring systems for education
- computer network applications in education
- computer as cognitive tools; online education
- design, development and evaluation of internet-/intranet-based
education
Consulting
- instructional design
- technology integration
- technology-related change and adoption
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