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Profile Write-up – Ned Low Hong Ee

Ned spent a good four years knocking on the doors of professors at the National University of Singapore (NUS) before being shown the door with a Bachelor in Computing (Honours) in Communications and Media. During his second year, he completed a year-long independent and supervised undergraduate research project titled “Case Study of the NUS IVLE (Integrated Virtual Learning Environment) & its Effectiveness to Academic Learning”. In his third year, he saw more of the world when he spent a semester on student exchange with the University of Queensland, Australia and drank half the Pacific Ocean whilst trying to surf. For his Honours year project, he returns to IT with “AttachViz: Visualizing Email Attachments” using Macromedia Flash. With a keen interest in multi-disciplinary thinking, Ned also graduates from the University Scholars Programme that emphasizes critical thinking and effective writing across diverse disciplines.

Engaging hearts and minds has always been Ned’s obsession since young. He survives after seven years of private tutoring with kids aged 7–17 across a wide range of subjects and nationalities. Whenever the opportunity avails, Ned does relief teaching in primary and secondary schools in subjects from English language to Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. He has also extensive experience in teaching IT, such as being a laboratory teaching assistant in Visual Basic Application programming to freshmen in the NUS School of Business for a semester. In coming to Republic Polytechnic, he hopes to explore PBL and perform education research as to how IT can be harnessed for effective learning.

During the times when his only obligation is himself, Ned likes to eat sand whilst playing beach volleyball and reads anything from newspapers to cereal boxes. Ned also swims and plays badminton. He articulates in English, converses in Chinese and gesticulates in Japanese, perpetually nursing an inane curiosity in the Japanese language and culture.