Professor Michael Jacobson
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Professor and Chair, Education Co-director, Centre for Research on Computer-supported Learning and Cognition (CoCo) Associate Dean, Information and Knowledge Technologies |
Email: Phone: +61 2 9036 7671 Fax: +61 2 9351 2606 Building.Room: A35.243 |
Research interests
Learning sciences; psychology of education
- Educational technology and new media
- eLearning and eResearch
- Learning, cognition and motivation
Keywords
design of learning technologies, intelligent agent augmented virtual worlds for learning, learning about complex systems, theoretical and methodological implications of complexity, knowledge transfer, conceptual change
Professional biography
Prior to his appointments with the faculty, Michael was an associate professor in the Learning Sciences Laboratory at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the senior associate director and an associate professor at the Korea University Center for Teaching and Learning in Seoul, Korea.
Michael has also held faculty and research positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Georgia, and Vanderbilt University, and was engaged in organisational and international consulting activities.
Awards
Bibliographic Instruction Publication Award 1995, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association
Outstanding Student Research Award 1992, American Educational Research Association, Division C
Bagley Scholars Fellowship 1989, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Phi Delta Kappa 1989
Graduate College Fellowship 1988, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nominee for Outstanding Faculty Member 1985, Western State College, Colorado
Professional and community roles
Member of editorial board, The Journal of the Learning Sciences
Co-strand editor: Learning About Complex Systems; The Journal of the Learning Sciences
Current research students
| Project title | Degree | Research student |
|---|---|---|
| Productive failure in a virtudal learning enviornment. Learner development of complex problem learning skills. | PhD | Shannon Kennedy-Clark |
Selected publications
Books
- Jacobson, M. J. (Ed.). (2009). Designs for learning environments of the future: International learning sciences theory and research perspectives. Book under contract with Springer Publishing Company.
Book chapters
- Jacobson, M. J. (2006). From non-adaptive to adaptive educational hypermedia: Theory, research, and design issues. In G. Magoulas & S. Chen (Ed.), Advances in web-based education: Personalized learning environments (pp. 302–330), Hershey, PA: Idea Group.
Journal articles
- Jacobson, M. J., & Azevedo, R. (2008). Advances in scaffolding learning with hypertext and hypermedia: Theoretical, empirical, and design issues. Educational Technology, Research, and Development, 56, 1–3.
- Jacobson, M. J. (2008). Hypermedia systems for problem-based learning: Theory, research, and learning emerging scientific conceptual perspectives. Educational Technology, Research, and Development, 56, 5–28.
- Azevedo, R., & Jacobson, M. J. (2008). Advances in scaffolding learning with hypertext and hypermedia: A summary and critical analysis. Educational Technology Research and Development, 56, 93–100.
- Jacobson, M. J., & Wilensky, U. (2006). Complex systems in education: Scientific and educational importance and research challenges for the learning sciences. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 15(1), 11–34.
- Jacobson, M. J., Kim, Y., Lee, J., Kim, H., & Kwon, S. (2005). Learning sciences principles for advanced e-learning systems: Implications for computer-assisted language learning. Korean Association of Multimedia- Assisted Language Learning, 8(1).
Conference papers
- Jacobson, M, Miao, C, Kim, B, Shen, Z, Chavez, M. (2008). Research into Learning in an Intelligent Agent Augmented Multi-user Virtual Environment. In none-online TUMAS-A 2008: Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in eLearning. Proceedings. Sydney, December 9-12, 2008.
- Pathaka, S. A., Jacobson, M. J., Kim, B., Zhang, B., & Deng, F. (2008). Learning the physics of electricity with agent-based models: The paradox of productive failure. In T.-W. Chan, G. Biswas, F.-C. Chen, S. Chen, C. Chou, M. Jacobson, Kinshuk, F. Klett, C.-K. Looi, T. Mitrovic, R. Mizoguchi, K. Nakabayashi, P. Reimann, D. Suthers, S. Yang & J.-C. Yang. International Conference on Computers in Education (pp. 221–228).
- Jacobson, M. J., Miao, C., Kim, B., Shen, Z., & Chavez, M. (2008). Research into learning in an intelligent agent augmented multi-user virtual environment. In 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (pp. 348–351).
- Jacobson, M. J., Lim, S. H., Lee, J., & Low, S.-H. (2007). Virtual Singapura: Design considerations for an intelligent agent augmented multi-user virtual environment for learning science inquiry. In the 15th International Conference on Computer in Education.
- Jacobson, M. J. . (2007). Complex systems in cognitive sciences: A universal acid?. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society.
Other
- Zhang, B., Jacobson, M. J., Kim, B., Deng, F., Pathak, S., & Lossman, H. G. (in press). Exploring modeling and visualization technology (mvt) enhanced biology teaching and learning in Singapore. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences., Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- Jacobson, M. J., So, H. J., Teo, T., Lee, J., & Pathak, S. A. (2008). Teachers’ beliefs about knowledge and learning: A Singapore perspective. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences., Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- Jacobson, M. J., Kim, B., Lee, J., Lim, S. H., & Low, S. H. (2008). Virtual Singapura: Learning in an intelligent agent augmented multi-user virtual environment for learning science inquiry. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Association, New York, NY.