iafor The IAFOR Journal of Education Volume III – Issue I – Winter 2015 The IAFOR Journal of Education Volume III - Issue I - Winter 2015 IAFOR Publications Executive Editor: Joseph Haldane The International Academic Forum The IAFOR Journal of Education Editor: Bernard Montoneri, Providence University, Taiwan Associate Editors: Cassandra Atherton, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Australia Vasileios Paliktzoglou, University of Eastern Finland, Finland, Bahrain Polytechnic, Bahrain Published by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan IAFOR Publications. Sakae 1-16-26-201, Naka-ward, Aichi, Japan 460-0008 Executive Editor, IAFOR Publications: Joseph Haldane Editorial Assistance: Lindsay Lafreniere Design: Bernard Montoneri The IAFOR Journal of Education Volume 3 – Issue 1 – Winter 2015 IAFOR Publications © Copyright 2015 ISSN: 2187-0594 (Online) http://iafor.org/educationjournal.html Cover image by: Jason Weaver/Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/arctic--fox/423066292/in/set-72157594546922919 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The IAFOR Journal of Education Volume III - Issue I - Winter 2015 Notes on Contributors Dr Richard Mather - He is a Course Leader in the Department of Computing where he teaches software engineering and co-leads research in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). He holds postgraduate qualifications in software engineering (MSc, Oxford) and in environmental sciences (DPhil, Oxford; MSc, UCNW). His pedagogic research and Ph.D. supervision include adaptive assessment practices, technologies and collaborative behaviours for learning computer science subjects. For the past twenty years he has also provided services to education, governments and industry concerning the development and use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing for environmental management. In 2010 he was awarded The Institution of Analysts and Programmers Prize for Software Engineering after developing a system to automate vegetation mapping from aerial imagery. His geospatial project outputs provide a rich source of case studies for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. E-mail: The IAFOR Journal of Education Volume III - Issue I - Winter 2015 Cheng, Gong - Ms. Gong Cheng received her Master’s degree in second language acquisition from Nanyang Technological University. She is now a teaching fellow with the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests are: self-directed learning, theories and pedagogies of second language acquisition, and ICT assisted language teaching. E-mail: The IAFOR Journal of Education Volume III - Issue I - Winter 2015 4 conference proceeding papers, and had 16 conference presentations at the state and national levels. He is also a reviewer for journals such as Review of Educational Research, International Journal of STEM Education, and Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education. Dr. Sokolowski currently teaches Integrated Math and Science course for pre-service teachers at Texas A&M University. E-mail: The IAFOR Journal of Education Volume III - Issue I - Winter 2015 has been teaching for more than 30 years at the tertiary level in the field of education administration. Also he has been a research adviser at the graduate level in the University. Email: