Dr Lim Yang Teck Kenneth awarded Ministry of Education Grant to explore Artificial Intelligence in Learning and speaks at Seoul National University

Dr Lim Yang Teck Kenneth, Education Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP) has been awarded a research grant in March 2022 from the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) Tertiary Education Research Fund (TRF) to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Learning. 

Dr Lim and his team are the sole recipients from the National Institute of Education (NIE) to receive funding from the 2021 MOE TRF Grant Call. Dr Lim’s grant application was found to be aligned with the thematic focus of the Call: “Personalised Education through AI-enabled learning and assessment”, and has been awarded $275,412 as the Principal Investigator. 

To meet this thematic focus, Dr Lim and his team will be collaborating closely with faculty members from the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), alongside a Senior Specialist from MOE over the next two years on the chosen topic: “Helping students learn coding with automatic feedback and analytics”. 

Collaborating with Dr Lim and his team is Mr Gi Soong Chee, Office of Education Research (OER) Teaching Fellow. Mr Gi is seconded to NIE from the Teaching Service of the MOE.  

Dr Lim was also invited by the College of Education, Seoul National University to share at a Learning Sciences symposium themed “Future directions of Learning Sciences: AI, brain and education” on 7 July 2022. He addressed an assembled audience of graduate students and academic faculty on the topic of “Student-initiated inquiry of our local environments with data science and the Internet of Things”, which was also streamed via Zoom. 

Dr Lim is well placed to speak on this topic, having been awarded the above-mentioned AI-themed MOE TRF, and having also been chosen to share his work on the Science of Learning to Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean in May 2022.