NSU Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences Faculty Viewbook

47 www.scis.nova.edu | BITS AND BYTES - chaired AERA SIG 169 (Doctoral Education Across the Disciplines), 2009 Dissertation of the Year Award - published book, Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy for Technology Integration - journal article selected as the Best JRTE, 2010 “Mobile learning, as a fairly new trend in learning technologies, supports learning and development via mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. The m learning community encompasses perspectives from academia to industry, and from grade schools, to higher education, and to lifelong learning sectors. Various areas of growth in m learning are currently researched, including social-networked mobile learning, mobile educational gaming, etc.” Ling Wang serves as a research methodologist for the graduate programs across disciplines at GSCIS as well as the broad researcher community. She joined NSU in 2003, after earning her Ph.D. in educational technology from Purdue University. She is an active member of the community and holds professional memberships with the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). She teaches graduate courses in computing technology in education and information systems, conducts research projects and studies, advises doctoral students on their dissertations, and serves as a reviewer for many national and international journals. Research Areas: research methodology and statistics, instructional design, motivation in education, learning technology, and mobile learning