Bing Mei 🇨🇳♂️

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I mainly work as a project assistant in the Digital Learning Team (DLT) at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, the University of Auckland.

As a project assistant, With an overall aim to improve university teachers’ pedagogical use of ICT, my daily job involves the following aspects:

  • Collaborate with learning designers for designated projects and provide advice;

  • Carry out background research with learning designers on relevant projects (e.g., evaluation of collaborative active learning spaces, blended learning, and identification and review of supporting tools);

  • Provide on-site and in-class technical support to DLT staff, academic staff, presenters, mentors, and students for various project-related workshops, classes, and other sessions;

  • Deliver project-related professional development support to meet pre-set objectives (e.g., preparation of easy-to-follow training material and organisation of workshops to train teachers how to use the new learning management system–Canvas).

I am also a research affiliate of the quantitative data analysis and research unit, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland. My research interests include educational technology, technology-enhanced language learning, technology acceptance, and teacher education. My current research project focuses on the potential use of AR/VR in the educational context.

📇 Contact Details

Office： R201, Faculty of Education and Social Work, 74 Epsom Avenue, Epsom, Auckland
E-mail: bmei560@aucklanduni.ac.nz

Education

2012--2016 University of Auckland Education PhD (Main supervisor: Professor Gavin Brown; Co supervisor: Dr. John Hope)

2006--2009 Henan University English Language and Literature MA (supervisor: Professor Chaojun Yang)

1999--2003 Henan University English BA (First Class honours)

Prior Employment

09/2015--02/2016 Kia Eke Panuku: Building on Success, The University of Auckland

  • Data analyst
    • My role in Kia Eke Panuku involved cleaning and transforming text data for further analysis, and generating standardized analysis reports to give schools feedback. I adopted Excel macro to streamline the whole process.

09/2015--12/2015 Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland

  • Learning management system facilitator
    • At this position, I assisted in familiarizing faculty staff with the newly implemented learning management system—Canvas. I worked successfully with staff either individually or in groups to deliver training on how to use the new system.

03/2014--12/2015 Starpath Project, The University of Auckland

  • Research assistant
    • Working first time as a research assistant, under the instruction of Dr. Earl Irving, I needed to submit information retrieval requests to the e-asttle website first, keep a detailed log of my requests, and download the data the other day. After that, the separate data files needed to be cleaned, amalgamated, coded, and attached to an existing database. This job required great attention to detail, patience, and expertise in using Excel.

12/2012--12/2015 Centre for the Creative Application of Technology in Education, The University of Auckland

  • Learning technology assistant
    • As a learning technology assistant, I would be in the collaborative active learning spaces (CALS) classroom to help teachers set up the classroom, and on call to solve minor technical issues.

09/2003--07/2012 School of Foreign Languages, Henan University

  • EFL lecturer
    • As an EFL lecturer, I taught courses of intensive reading, extensive reading, and English grammar.

Presentation

May, L., & Mei, B. (2019, August). The construction of Chinese histories through heterotopic game spaces. Paper presented at Chinese Digital Game Research Conference 2019, Beijing.

May, L., Mei, B., & Heap R.(2019, July). Rapid prototyping as an approach to designing online learning. Paper presented at HERDSA Conference 2019: Next Generation, Higher Education: Challenges, Changes and Opportunities, Auckland.

Ellis, D., Heap R., May, L., Mei, B., Coombes, M., Denton, J., Durham, R., Plusje, Y., Rata, N., Thornley,J., & Tickner, S. (2018, November). Online course design: The rapid development studio. Poster session presented at Tertiary Education Research New Zealand(TERNZ) 2018 Conference, Wellington.

Mei, B. (2018, October). Survey research in PRC: Challenges, solutions, & techniques. Paper presented at China Research Symposium With Professor Gavin T. L. Brown, Auckland.

Mei, B. (2017, June). Preparing pre-service EFL teachers for computer aided assessment: A mainland Chinese perspective. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference—Asian Association for Language Assessment, Taipei.

Mei, B. & Brown, G. (2015, May). Understanding mainland Chinese pre-service EFL teachers’ adoption of innovative technology enhanced assessment approaches. Poster session presented at the International Conference—Assessment for Learning in Higher Education, Hong Kong.

Mei, B. & Brown, G. (2015, July). Towards an understanding of mainland Chinese pre-service EFL teachers’ intention to use CALL 2.0. Poster session presented at the 17th Biennial International Study Association of Teachers and Teaching Conference, Auckland.

📚 Publication

Student Scholarship

2014 Recipient of the Global Scholarship program for research excellence from the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Technical Skills

  • Proficient Level
    • SPSS
    • AMOS
    • Excel (VBA programming and Macro development)
    • Word
    • NVivo
    • PowerPoint
  • Intermediate Level
    • R
    • RStudio
    • Access
    • Foxpro
  • Basic Level
    • SAS
    • Html & CSS
    • SQL
    • Adobe Creative Suite

Academic Service

Copy editor for the journal of Language Learning & Technology (SSCI indexed)

Publication Reviews

Hobbies