Research Members
Research Members
Research Director
Ikseon (Ike) Choi, Ph.D.
Dr. Ikseon “Ike” Choi is a professor in the Learning, Design, and Technology Program at the University of Georgia, where he teaches graduate courses in learning theories, real-world problem solving and reasoning, learning environments design and evaluation. Since receiving his Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University in 2002, he has been leading a series of innovative research and development projects for case-based learning and real-world problem solving in higher education. Through his multi-disciplinary collaboration with leading scholars in the areas of human medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, nano/bio-engineering, agricultural science, food and nutrition science, computer science, and teacher education, he explores the uncertain nature of various types of ill-defined, real-world problems, identifies individual and environmental factors influencing learning and real-world problem solving, and investigates effective ways of promoting and evaluating the development of learners’ real-world problem solving abilities.
His research has been acknowledged by receiving over ten national awards, including the Outstanding Journal Article Award (2016), the Outstanding Practice Award (2005 and 2007), and the Jerrold Kemp Endowed Lecture Series Award (2013 and 2015) from the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). He has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences, including E-Learn, Global HR Forum, Information Technology in Education, E-Learning Korea, Asia-Pacific Joint Conference on Problem-Based Learning, Korean Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and at various universities around the globe. His current research interests include: real-world problem solving and reasoning, case-based learning and assessment, program evaluation, and instructional simulation and virtual reality.
Educational Background: B.A. in Child and Adolescent Development | M.A. Teaching – Multiple Subjects from University of Southern California | M.Ed. & Ph.D. in Learning, Design, & Technology from the University of Georgia, USA. Key Publications during graduate study
Jasmine Sookhyun Choi, Ph.D. | portfolio
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Research and Innovation in Learning (RAIL) Lab, College of Education, the University of Georgia
Current Projects Involved: Project coordinator, Georgia CTSA Translational Workforce Development Project (Funded by NIH) and Diversity MATTERS in Neuroscience Training (Funded by NSF)
Research Interests: Understanding ways professionalism is developed in higher education, to develop and promote instructional strategies and learning environments that supports the development of professionalism for the purposes of societal benefits
Dissertation Title: Developing professionalism in higher education: conceptualization and pedagogical approaches
Russ Palmer, M.Ed.
Educational Background: M.Ed. in Learning, Design, and Technology from the University of Georgia | B.A. in History from the University of Georgia
Professional Experiences: Instructional designer at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy.
Current Position: Russ Palmer is a doctoral student in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Georgia, and a full-time instructional designer at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy
Current Projects: Case-based learning in Health Professions Education | Real World Decision Making in Clinical Pharmacy Practice
Research Interests: Characteristics of Real-World Problems | Cognitive Task Analysis
Awards: AECT ETR&D Young Scholar Award (2019)
SeJung Kwon, M.A. Educational Background: M.A. in Instructional Design and Development from the University of Georgia | B.A. & M.A. in International Office Administration from Ewha Womans University in Korea
Professional Experiences: Career Development Coordinator, the Dept. of International Office Administration at Ewha Womans University | Lecturer, taught computer-related courses; Business Computing, Utilization of OA Programs, and Applications for Smart Devices in the Workplace, in Korea
Current Position: Graduate Assistant in Learning, Design, and Technology
Current Projects : Career Navigation System for Translational Workforce Development funded by NIH
Research Interests: Real-world Problem Solving | Health Professions Education | Office Professional’s Education | Case-based learning | Project-based Learning | Cognitive Task Analysis
Eunice S Kim, Pharm.D. Educational Background: Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy
Professional Experiences: Pharmacy Manager | Community Pharmacy Practice Experiences Preceptor
Current Position: Graduate Assistant in Learning, Design, and Technology
Current Projects : Career Navigation System for Translational Workforce Development funded by NIH
Research Interests: Collaboration in Healthcare | Multiple Perspectives & Perspective-taking | Epistemology | Empathy
Tingting Yang, M.S. Educational Background: M.S. in Educational Technology from Central China Normal University, China | B.S. in Educational Technology from Hubei Normal University, China
Professional Experiences:Research Assistant in Educational Technology at Central China Normal University, China | Startup Founder of a multimedia courseware company in China
Current Position: Graduate Assistant in Learning, Design, and Technology
Current Project Involved : VR-based Child Pedestrain Safety Education Project
Research Interests: Reflective Thinking | Group Reflection | Collaborative Learning
Yoo Mi Chae, MD, PhD.
Educational Background: M.D., Ph.D. in Preventive Medicine from Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Korea
Professional Experiences: Research Fellow, National Cancer Center, Korea
Current Position: Visiting scholar | Associate Dean, Professor, Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Korea
Research Interests: Medical Education | VR-based Patient Education
Graduates
Yi-Chun Hong, Ph.D. | profile
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation,Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University
Degree Earned: Ph.D., Learning, Design, and Technology, UGA
Dissertation: Exploring novice designers’ reflective thinking in solving design problems
Key Publications during graduate study
- Hong, Y. C., & Choi, I. (2011). Three dimensions of reflective thinking in solving design problems: A conceptual framework. Educational Technology Research & Development, 59(5), 687-710.
- Hong, Y. C., & Choi, I. (2015). Assessing reflective thinking in solving design problems: The development of a questionnaire. British Journal of Educational Technology, 46(4), 848-863.
- Hong, Y. C., & Choi, I. (2018). Relationships between student designer’s reflective thinking and their design performance in bioengineering project: Exploring reflection patterns between high and low performers. Educational Technology Research and Development
Hui Rong, Ph.D.
Current Position: Senior Instructional Technologist, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Degree Earned: Ph.D., Learning, Design, and Technology, UGA
Dissertation: Learning from failure: exploring the use of failure cases in promoting veterinary student’ real-world problem-solving abilities
Awards: AECT ETR&D Young Scholar Award | UGA Dissertation Completion Award | AERA SIG-IT Best Student Paper Award | Design and Development Divison, AECT Outstanding Journal Article Award
Key Publications during graduate study
- Tawfik, A., Rong, H., & Choi, I. (2015). Failing to learn: Towards a unified design approach for failure-based learning. Educational Technology Research & Development, 63(6), 975-994.
- Rong, H., & Choi, I. (2018, in press). Integrating failures in case-based learning environments: A classification of failure for education. Educational Technology Research & Development
- Rong, H., Choi, I, Clarke, K., & Schmiedt, C. (2017, in progress). Lessons from failure: Exploring veterinary students’ learning experience with a failure-based case-based online module.
Hyunjung Ju, Ph.D.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Medical Education Center, College of Medicine, Inje University, Korea
Degree earned: Ph.D., Learning, Design, and Technology, UGA
Dissertation: Enhancing medical students’ argumentation during hypothetico-deductive reasoning (HDR) in problem-based learning (PBL)
Awards: Robert M. Gagne Award (2017). Association for Educational Communications and Technology.
Key Publications during graduate study
- Ju, H., Choi, I., Lee, J., & Rhee, B. (2016). Challenges experienced by Asian medical students and tutors during problem-based learning: A cultural perspective. The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning, 10(1).
- Ju, H., Choi, I., & Yoon, B. (2017).Do medical students generate sound arguments during small group discussions in problem-based learning?: an analysis of preclinical medical students’ argumentation according to a framework of hypothetico-deductive reasoning.Journal of Korean Medical Education, 29(2), 101-109.
- Ju, H., & Choi, I. (2017). The role of argumentation in hypothetico-deductive reasoning during problem-based learning in medical education: A conceptual framework.InterdisciplinaryJournal of Problem-Based Learning, 12(1).
- Ju, H., Choi, I., & Yoon, B. (2017, in progress). Enhancing medical students’ argumentation during small group discussions in problem-based learning: Focus on hypothetico-deductive reasoning.
Sejin Kim, Ph.D.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medical Education, College of Medicine, Kosin University, Korea
Degree earned: Ph.D., Learning, Design, and Technology, UGA
Dissertation:How do medical students actually think while solving problems in three different types of clinical assessments: objective structured clinical examination (osce), multimedia case-based assessment (cba), and modified essay question (meq)
Key Publications during graduate study
- Kim, S., Choi, I., Yoon, B., Kwon, M., Choi, S., Kim, S., Lee, J., & Rhee, B. (2019). Medical students’ thought process while solving problems in 3 different types of clinical assessments in Korea: Clinical performance examination, multimedia case-based assessment, and modified essay question. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 16:10 (1-11). https://doi.org/10.3352/jeehp.2019.16.10
Yingxiao (Karen) Qian, Ph.D.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, the Learning and Cognition Lab, Arizona State University, USA
Degree earned: Ph.D., Learning, Design, and Technology, UGA
Dissertation: Effectiveness of Explicit Guidance and Practices on Abstraction (EGPA): Focus on Computational Tasks in a STEM-integrative Robotic Education Program for 5th Grade
Hyojin Park, Ph.D.
Degree earned: Ph.D., Learning, Design, and Technology, UGA
Dissertation: Enhancing veterinary student’ clinical decision-making skills by promoting revision of their decision-making process in case-based learning
Key Publications during graduate study
- Park, H., Choi, I., Schmiedt, C., Cornell, K., & Creevy, K. (2017, in review). The effectiveness of expert cognitive modeling in novices’ reflective revision of their clinical reasoning.
- Creevy, K. E., Cornell, K. K., Schmiedt, C., Park, H., Rong, H., Radlinsky, M. G., & Choi, I. (in press). Impact of expert commentary and student reflection on veterinary clinical decision-making skills in an innovative electronic-learning case-based platform. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education.
Seungki Shin, Ph.D. | profile
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Education, Seoul National University of Education, Korea
Degree earned: Ph.D., Learning, Design, and Technology, UGA
Dissertation: A study on the development of creative computational thinking instructional model and verification of its effectiveness
Zackery Howington, Ph.D.
Current Position: Instructional Design, August University College of Nursing, UGA
Degree earned: Ph.D., Learning, Design, and Technology, UGA
Dissertation: The role of empathetic understanding in the development of real-world problem solving skills
Younseok Lee, Ph.D.
Degree earned: Ph.D., Learning, Design, and Technology, UGA
Dissertation: Design and implementation of a multipurpose e-portfolio for clinical clerkship in a Korean medical school environment.
Supriya Mishra, Ph.D.
Degree earned: Ph.D., Learning, Design, and Technology, UGA
Dissertation: Exploring the role of peer feedback in teaching and learning: Focusing on pharmacy education
Sang Joon Lee, Ph.D. | profile
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Instructional Systems and Workforce Development, Mississippi State University.
Degree earned: Ph.D., Instructional Technology, UGA
Key Publications during graduate study
- Choi, I., Lee, S., & Kang, J. (2009). Implementing a case-based e-learning environment in a lecture-oriented anesthesiology class: Do learning styles matter on complex problem solving over time? British Journal of Educational Technology, 40, 933-947.
- Choi, I., Lee, S., & Jung, J. (2008). Designing multimedia case-based instruction accommodating students’ diverse learning styles. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 17, 5-25.
Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholars
Previous Visiting Scholars
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- Prof. Kate J. Yi, PhD. (2018-2019). Department of Microbiology, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
- Prof. Chan Sun Park, MD, PhD. (2018-2019). Department of Internal Medicien (Allergy and Clinical Immunology), Inje University College of Medicine, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea.
- Prof. Eunmi Kong, MD, PhD. (2018). Department of Family Medicine, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
- Major Jungrok Kwon, MED. (2015-2016). The Air Force Academy, The Republic of Korea Air Force.
- Prof. Do-Young Lee, Ph.D. (2015). Department of Architecture and Engineering, Andong National University, Andong, Korea.
- Prof. Hyunmi Chung, Ph.D. (2015). Department of Educational Technology, Andong National University, Andong, Korea.
- Prof. Junho Cho, MD (2014-2015). Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Prof. Bo-Young Yoon, MD (2013-2014). Department of Internal Medicine (Rheumatology), Inje University College of Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Ilsan, Korea.
- Porf. Young Kwon Bae (2013-2014). Department of Computer Education, Daegu National University of Education, Daegu, Korea.
- Porf. Junsu Kim, MD (2012-2013). Department of Family Medicine, Inje University College of Medicine, Pusan Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea.
- Prof. Youngsik Jung (2011). Korea Education Development Institute (KEDI), Seoul, Korea; Jeonju National University of Education.
- Dr. SoonOk Jo (2009-2012). Post-doctoral fellow sponsored by the Korean Research Foundation.
- Eunkyun Yeon (2009). Visiting student sponsored by the Department of Education. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
- Prof. JungWon Kang (2003-2005). Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea.
Collaborating Members
Collaborating Members
Health Professions Education
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- Byoung Doo Rhee, MD, PhD. Professor of Internal Medicine and Vice-President of Medical and Pharmaceutical Affairs, Inje University, Korea.
- Jong Tae Lee, MD, PhD. Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Dean, Inje University College of Medicine, Korea.
- Chad W. Schmiedt, DVM, DACVS. Professor of Soft Tissue Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Georgia, USA.
- Karen Cornell, DVM, PhD, DACVS. Associate Dean for Professional Programs at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University,, USA.
- Kate E. Creevy, DVM, DACVIM. Associate Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA.
- Dennis Aron, DVM, ACVS. Former Professor of Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Georgia. USA.
- MaryAnn Radlinsky, DVM, DACVS. Former Professor of Soft Tissue Surgery at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia, USA.
- Bo-Young Yoon, MD, PhD. Professor of Rheumatology, Inje University College of Medicine, Korea.
- Junho Cho, MD, PhD. Professor of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea.
- Catherine Bourg Rebitch, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCACP. Clinical Associate Professor & PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency Program Director, College of Pharmacy, the University of Georgia, USA.
- Linda McCauley, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAOHN. Dean and Professor, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, USA.
- Jeongwan Kang, MD, PhD. Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Korea.
Science and Engineering Education
- Kang Li, PhD, Professor of Computer Science and Director of Georgia Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy, the University of Georgia, USA.
- Luke P. Lee, PhD. The Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, and the Director of the Biomedical Institute of Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART), the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
- David Gattie, PhD. Associate Professor, College of Engineering, the University of Georgia, USA.
- Al J. Turgeon, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Turfgrass Management, College of Agricultural Science, the Pennsylvania State University, USA.
- Greg Kicker, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, USA.
Teacher Education
- Young Kwon Bae, PhD. Professor of Computer Education, Daegu National University of Education, Korea
Learning, Design, & Technology
- Andrew Tawfik, PhD. Assistant Professor of Educational Design and Technology, College of Education, the University of Memphis , USA.
- Sang Joon Lee, PhD. Assistant Professor, Instructional Systems and Workforce Development, Mississippi State University, USA.
- John Kundert-Gibbs, PhD. Associate Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Film Studies, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Georgia, USA.
- Heng Luo (Patrick), PhD. Assistant Professor of School of Educational Information Technology, Central China Normal University