Nian-Shing Chen

is a Chair Professor at the Department of Information Management in the National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. He has published over 350 papers in the international referred journals, conferences and book chapters. One of his papers published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International was awarded as the top cited article in 2011. He is the author of three books with one textbook entitled “e-Learning Theory & Practice”.  Prof. Chen received the distinguished research awards from the National Science Council, Taiwan in 2008 and 2010. His current research interests include assessing e-Learning course performance; online synchronous teaching & learning; mobile & ubiquitous learning; Natural user interface & Game-based learning. Prof. Chen is serving as an editorial board member for many international journals and guest editors for more than 10 special issues of international journals. He has also organized and chaired numerous international conferences and workshops in the area of advanced learning technologies. Professor Chen is a senior member of IEEE, ACM and the Chair for Expert Seminars and Web-based Tutorials, the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology (http://lttf.ieee.org/). He is a Co-Editors-In-Chief of the SSCI indexed Journal of Educational Technology & Society.