Partners for Ministry of Education Open Source Physics

Maybe useful info for those who don't know yet who are the contributors to Open Source Physics.
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Name of External Academics/Researchers well-known for their area of specialisation	Title (Prof/AP/Dr/ Mr/Ms/Mrs)	Affiliation (i.e. Institution or Organisation Attached To)	Specialised Field/Research Interest(s)/Area(s)	SS Point-of-Contact in MOE (Name & Designation) *Named Academic/Researcher should be able to relate to MOE based on name of SS point-of-contact	Branch & Division	Past or Usual Mode of Contact with Academic/Researcher (e.g. face-to-face, email, phone call, etc.)
Francisco Esquembre	Prof	Vice Provost of University of Murcia, Spain, and Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and President of Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning Group. Advisor to the Ministry of Education (with competences in Universities and Research), and for two years, General Director of Universities and Research of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia and Patron of the Seneca Foundation (Regional Agency of Investigation)	Research interest includes Computer-Assisted Teaching and the Simulation of Scientific Processes for teaching purposes. Modeling and simulation of physical phenomena and engineering, a field in which he has developed a modeling tool called Easy Java / Javascript Simulations (EJS).	Mr. Lawrence Wee Loo Kang. SSTFL2	Technology for Learning Branch, ETD	Email; face-to-face in Singapore and Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning conference.
Felix J. Garcia Clemente	Director	Director of Research and Technology Transfer to companies at the University of Murcia, Spain. Associate Professor at Department of Computer Engineering and Technology. Visiting scholar at EPFL (Switzerland), NTU-NIE (Singapore) and Stanford University (USA).	creator of Easy JavaScript Simulation (EJSS) modeling toolkit. Research interest includes Cybersecurity, Network Management, and Interaction Systems	Mr. Lawrence Wee Loo Kang. SSTFL2	Technology for Learning Branch, ETD	WhatsApp; Email; face-to-face in Singapore and Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning conference.
Wolfgang Christian	Prof	Herman Brown Professor and Chair of Physics Department, Davidson College, USA, Ex-President North Carolina Section, American Association Physics Teacher, creator of Open Source Physics Project.	Research on the development of Computational Physics, creator of Open Source Physics, author of many textbooks such as Physlets Physics, Physics for Scientists and Engineers + Physlet Physics: Interactive Illustrations, Explorations, and Problems for Introductory Physics and Just-In-Time Teaching: Blending Active Learning with Web Technology.	Mr. Lawrence Wee Loo Kang. SSTFL2	Technology for Learning Branch, ETD	Email; face-to-face in Singapore and Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning and American Association of Physics Teachers conferences.

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Francisco Esquembre	Prof	Vice Provost of University of Murcia, Spain, and Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and President of Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning Group. Advisor to the Ministry of Education (with competencies in Universities and Research), and for two years, General Director of Universities and Research of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia and Patron of the Seneca Foundation (Regional Agency of Investigation)	Research interest includes Computer-Assisted Teaching and the Simulation of Scientific Processes for teaching purposes. Modeling and simulation of physical phenomena and engineering, a field in which he has developed a modeling tool called Easy Java / Javascript Simulations (EJS).	Academic Curriculum and its approaches
Felix J. Garcia Clemente	Director	Director of Research and Technology Transfer to companies at the University of Murcia, Spain. Associate Professor at Department of Computer Engineering and Technology. Visiting scholar at EPFL (Switzerland), NTU-NIE (Singapore) and Stanford University, USA.	Creator of Easy JavaScript Simulation (EJSS) modeling toolkit. Research interest includes Cybersecurity, Network Management, and Interaction Systems	Assessment
Wolfgang Christian	Prof	Herman Brown Professor and Chair of Physics Department, Davidson College, USA, Ex-President North Carolina Section, American Association Physics Teacher, Creator of Open Source Physics Project.	Research on the development of Computational Physics, creator of Open Source Physics, author of many textbooks such as Physlets Physics, Physics for Scientists and Engineers + Physlet Physics: Interactive Illustrations, Explorations, and Problems for Introductory Physics and Just-In-Time Teaching: Blending Active Learning with Web Technology.	Blended Learning/ Digital competencies

1. Full Professor Francisco Esquembre,University of Murcia, Spain, Vice Provost and Dean of Faculty of Mathematics, creator of Easy Java Simulation (EJS) modeling toolkit .
2. Assoc Professor Felix J. Garcia Clemente, University of Murcia, Spain, Department of Computer Engineering and Technology, Director of Research and Technology Transfer to companies, creator of Easy JavaScript Simulation (EJSS) modeling toolkit. 
3. Wolfgang Christian, Full and Brown Foundation Professor of Physics, Davidson College, USA, Ex-President North Carolina Section, American Association Physics Teacher, creator of Open Source Physics Project. 

1. Open Source Physics Project, USA.
2. Singapore MOE Edulab series of projects since 2012 - present.

Research group comprising ETD SSs and Open Source Physics experts collaborates and creates prototypes of interactive resources such as virtual laboratory simulations and interactive electronic books for inquiry-based learning.

In light of the Student Learning Space (SLS) developments, revisions to the EJSS authoring toolkit have to be made to customise the interactive simulations so that they work well in the SLS.

MOE has also created a digital library of 400+ interactive resources covering Physics and Mathematics. These is possible because the SSs have taken the open source codes of the simulations shared by the experts and adapted them to suit the Singapore curriculum syllabus outcomes and teaching guides learning experiences. A typical collaboration may take the form of the SSs emailing these experts for additional features and technical knowledge. The experts then will provide free support and share their codes to achieve certain functionalities. Research group to collaborate and create prototypes of interactive resources such as virtual laboratory, hand phone sensor aware Apps, Moodle learning analytics extension for simulations, interactive electronic books epubs etc.
In light of Student Learning Space (SLS) developments in MOE, revisions to the EJSS authoring toolkit have be made to customised simulations to work into SLS.
MOE has also created a 400+ digital library of interactive resources covering Physics and Mathematics.


Ongoing collaboration between Open Source Physics Project, USA and a series of MOE HQ-driven eduLab projects since 2012 till present. There are also MOE edulab funded projects where the SSs would invite these experts to co-create four Android and iOS Apps that tap on hand phones as data logging apparatus [1], virtual laboratory learning analytics [2] of students' simulation usages (log of mouse clicks and state of the simulations) for data-informed teaching practice etc.

Future plans include creating a HTML5 version of the popular Tracker video analysis and modeling tool and a web based authoring toolkit like Geogebra.

Teacher Work Attachments to ETD/TFL allow SSs to mentor teachers to create simple games or simulations in 2 weeks, to build teachers' capacity to make simple games for heighten students' engagement and promoting the joy of learning.