Jon-Chao Hong
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Biography
Jon-Chao Hong has received his doctoral degree in Education from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and is currently working as a Chair professor in the department of industrial education at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). As the director of Digital Game-based Learning Laboratory (GBL), he has developed 9 web games and 15 educational Apps. These App games were developed based on game-based learning theory to increase the learning motivation of the students. As the President of Taiwan Creativity Development Association, he also organizes several creative contests, such as PowerTech Contest and World Bond Robot Contest to invite elementary, junior and senior high school students to produce robots or miniatures in the morning and using these to compete in the afternoon to ensure students’ hands-on creation without parents or teachers’ assistance. In addition, he has published a number of academic articles in international journals related to digital game-based learning and thinking skills and creativity. Within the last three years, he has successfully published twenty-nine articles on Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals and received the Outstanding Research Prize from Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan.
Abstract
Abstract : How to gamify learning contents in the flip classroom