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Research Director
Ikseon (Ike) Choi, Ph.D.

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Dr. Ikseon (Ike) Choi is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia, where he teaches graduate courses related to learning environments design and development. He has been leading a variety of research and development projects for case-based e-learning environments and real-world problem solving in both higher education and corporate settings. In order to conduct long-term, sustainable, design-based research on case-based e-learning environments for enhancing college students' real-world problem solving abilities, he has been collaborated with leading scholars in agricultural science, human medicine, veterinary medicine, teacher education, and nano/bioengineering. Through his multi-disciplinary collaborations, 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 the development of college students' real-world problem solving abilities.

Flint Buchanan

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Project Involved: CBEL- Ehancing Intra-Operative Decisions

Flint Buchanan earned his M.Ed. in Instructional Design and Development and MFA in Digital Media/Sculpture from The University of Georgia. He is currently employed as Instructional Technologist for the UGA department of Large Animal Medicine. His research interests include visualization, spatial cognition, and kinesthetic skills in medicine.

Melissa Gay

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Project Involved: Engineering Design Project - Design Problems

Melissa Gay is a doctoral student in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Georgia. She has a M.Ed. in Instructional Design and Development and a B.A. in Communication. Her research interests include instructional message design, visual literacy, and aesthetics.

Yi-Chun Hong

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Project Involved: Anesthesiology Project - Dynamic Decision Making Problems; CMPS Project - Ethical Dilemma Problems; Engineering Design Project - Design Problems

Yi-Chun Hong earned her Ph.D. and M.Ed. in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Georgia. She has a range of teaching experiences in different contexts and at various levels. She has taught pre-service teachers to integrate technology into K-12 classrooms as well as co-taught graduate level courses related to instructional design and development. Prior her graduate study in the US, she taught English to EFL learners in Taiwan and worked as a development editor in Pearson Education Taiwan to develop English textbooks for middle school students. Her research interest has been focusing on improving students' abilities in solving ill-structured real-world problems. She has involved in various interdisciplinary projects to research and develop case-based e-learning modules for medical students, pre-service teachers, and engineering students. Her dissertation was conducted to understand the role of reflection in solving ill-structured real-world design problems.

Lucas John Jensen

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Project Involved: Engineering Design Project - Design Problems

Lucas John Jensen is a doctoral student in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Georgia. He also holds Master's degrees in Social Science Education and Instructional Design and Development from UGA. His research interests are Web 2.0, motivation, reflection, and gaming.

Dr. Soonok Jo

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Soonok is a post-doctoral fellow. She received the post-doctoral grant from Korean Research Foundation for the research about the relationship between university students' social capital and their learning outcomes. She achieved Ph.D. in Adult Education at Chung-Ang University, South Korea. Her current research interest is about professional and cultural identities which students form in the process of learning.

Dr. Junsu Kim

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Project Initiated: Mobile multi-source feedback & evaluation system for PPI(Patient - Physician Interaction) in clinical situations

Dr. Junsu Kim is a visiting scholar from InJe University, College of Medicine, Busan Baik Hospital, South Korea, where he serves as an assistant professor for the Department of Family Medicine. His research interests include medical education (formative assessment), hospice palliative care as medical education, medical Informatics, smoking cessation program, and obesity.

Younseok Lee

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Project Involved: Engineering Design Project - Design Problems; CBEL- Ehancing Intra-Operative Decisions

Younseok Lee is a doctoral student in the Learning, Design and Technology program at the University of Georgia. He holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering and Information Technology and M.S. in Computer Science with an emphasis in computer graphics. He worked for the Mobile S/W company for 5 years as a mobile S/W programmer and project manager. His specialty is Android platform customizing and mobile GUI development. Currently, his research interest is in knowledge management and mobile devices assisted learning environment on real world problem solving domain.

Hyojin Park

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Project Involved: Engineering Design Project - Design Problems; CBEL- Ehancing Intra-Operative Decisions

Hyojin Park is a doctoral student in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Georgia. She obtained Master's degree in Educational Technology from Korea. Her research interests are mobile-based learning, real-world problem solving, and scaffolding.

Anita Zgambo

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Anita is completing her doctoral program in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia (UGA). She has a master’s degree in computer science and information systems from Kennesaw State University (KSU). While at KSU, she taught online computer science courses to at-risk school students for three Metro Atlanta high schools for an NSF funded program. She also provided technical support for the program’s learning management system.  She was promoted to program coordinator for the ten high schools that participated in the program. In this role, she was the liaison between the program director, graduate student teachers, high school teachers, students and student’s parents. During her first three years at UGA, she taught pre-service teachers how to integrate technology into their curriculum. She also co-teaches a graduate level course that focuses on evaluating instructional products. Anita has designed and conducted evaluations of education programs. Her dissertation focuses on program evaluators’ naturalistic decision making within the context of international development education programs.

Consulting Members

Sean Boyle

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Sean recently received his Master of Education in Instructional Design and Development from the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia.  He also holds a Master of Library and Information Sciences from Rutgers and works full-time as the Technical Services Librarian at Gainesville State College, Oconee Campus.

Eddie Hutchinson

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Project Involved: Anesthesiology Project - Dynamic Decision Making Problems; Online Data Collection System

Eddie is a part-time Master's student in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia.  He has over 15 years of software development experience.  He received a B.B.A. in Information Systems from Georgia Southern University.

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Project Involved: Anesthesiology Project - Dynamic Decision Making Problems

Sang Joon received his Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia in 2009. He also holds a Master of Science in Instructional Technology from Utah State University. At present, he is an instructional/multimedia developer in the Office of Educational Technology and Assessment at the University of South Florida. His current research interest focuses on students' learning experiences in student-centered learning environments.

Collaborating Scholars

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