Teo Chew Lee is the Senior Research Scientist in the Learning Sciences Laboratory, NIE,Nanyang Technological University. Before she joined the University, she was a Lead Specialist in Learning Partnership in Educational Technology at the Educational Technology Division in the Ministry of Singapore for almost 10 years.

She began exploring Learning Sciences theories in practice way back in her own classroom as a science educator. She completed her Ph.D. at OISE/UT, Canada and joined the ministry in 2009 to lead a research group on translating KB theories technologies into Singapore classrooms. Chew Lee uses a design-based research approach to study ways to facilitate Singapore teachers in designing knowledge building environments and has worked at various level and subjects from primary school to junior colleges.

She focuses her work on understanding teachers’ problem spaces in their discourse and their work to design idea-centered learning environments. From 2012, she extended the impact of the work to create a KB network learning community in Singapore that builds new understanding of the practice. The network has sustained and grew to include international partners.