B.A. (Hons), M.A, PGDE, Ph.D
Dr Fei Victor Lim is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He researches and teaches on multiliteracies, multimodal discourse analyses, and digital learning. He is interested in what and how students should be learning in today’s digital age. A/Prof Lim is passionate about education and its value in improving in both personal and societal well-being. He believes that literacy education must be future-oriented and progress with the evolving contemporary communication landscape. A/Prof Lim has received several teaching awards, including the John Cheung Social Media Award in 2021 for exemplary and innovative use of social media in teaching, NIE Excellence in Teaching Commendation in 2022 and Nanyang Education Award (School) in 2023.
A/Prof Lim is author of the book Designing Learning with Embodied Teaching: Perspectives from Multimodality and lead author of Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy: Teaching Viewing and Representing, both published in the Routledge Studies in Multimodality. Many of his journal articles are published in Tier 1 journals. His 171 publications (as of May 2023) include 36 journal articles, 2 books, 28 book chapters, 1 working paper, 2 guidebooks, 17 research reports, 17 professional articles, 55 conference papers, 6 news commentaries, 3 multimedia products, 2 edited special journal issues and 1 book review. As international recognition of his work, he has given more than 115 invited talks, including keynotes, plenary lectures, seminars and workshops, in Australia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mozambique, the Netherlands, Rwanda, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, Vietnam, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, United States, and the United Kingdom.
A/Prof Lim has experience as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator of 12 research grants. He is presently Principal Investigator of the Educational Research Funding Programme project on the “The “Integrating Multiliteracies into the English Language Classroom: Developing an Instructional Approach to Teach Multimodal Literacy (Critical Viewing and Effective Representing of Multimodal Texts)” (2019-2023) and “The Singapore Student Digital Literacies Profile” (2023-2024) as well as the Temasek Foundation Innovates, Singapore Millennium Foundation Grant on ‘A Study of Children’s Home ICT Use on their Language and Development (CHILD)” (2020-2023). A/Prof Lim is also presently Co-Principal Investigator of 2 Educational Research Funding Programme project “A Multimodal Learning Analytics Approach Towards Learner Dashboard Designs for Better Engagement and Metacognitive Regulation (LADDER)” (2021-2024) and “Designing School Libraries of the Future (LOTF Study)” (2020-2023). A/Prof Lim was recognised as amongst the top 2% scientists worldwide in the field of education and languages & linguistics by Stanford University in 2023.
A/Prof Lim is an editor for Multimodality and Society and serves as an associate editor for Computers and Composition and Designs for Learning. He is also on the editorial board for Computers and Composition, Frontiers in Communication, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Insights into Language, Culture and Communication, Journal of Studies in the English Language, and Visual Communication. A/Prof Lim serves as the Awards Chair (2023-2024) for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Semiotics in Education Special Interest Group (SIG). In NIE, he leads the Multimodality Special Interest Group to build up a community of faculty and students who share an interest in multimodality in education. A/Prof Lim has previously served on the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences (PIAAC) Expert Advisory Group, SkillsFuture Singapore (2018-2021) and as a consultant with the World Bank on digital skills.
A/Prof Lim was formerly Deputy Director, Technologies for Learning, and Lead Specialist (now Master Specialist), Educational Technology, at the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) (2011-2018). He has experience in translational research, policy formulation, and programme development, with a focus on how educational technology can improve teaching and learning. In his role, he contributed to the conceptualisation of the Fourth Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Education Masterplan to nurture future-ready and responsible digital learners, the development of strategies and initiatives for MOE’s translational research, innovations, and scaling efforts, as well as the strengthening of cyber wellness education in Singapore.
Before his posting to MOE headquarters, he was General Paper teacher, level head, and school staff developer in a junior college, and was an adjunct lecturer on sociolinguistics at a university in Singapore. He was a recipient of the Singapore Public Service Commission Scholarship and the National University of Singapore (NUS) Research Scholarship for his undergraduate and postgraduate studies. He was also a research scholar in the Multimodal Analysis Lab, Interactive Digital Media Institute at NUS, where he was awarded the MOE PhD Postgraduate Scholarship and NUS Research Scholarship.
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