Samuel Kai Wah Chu

Samuel Kai Wah Chu is the head of division of information and technology studies and an associate professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong. He is also the deputy director (Centre for Information Technology in Education) in the Faculty of Education of that university. He has published over 170 articles and books, including key journals in the area of information and library science, information technology (IT) in education, school librarianship, academic librarianship, and knowledge management. He is also the author of a series of children's story books. Chu is the associate editor (Asia) for the Online Information Review: The International Journal of Digital Information Research and Use. He is also the Asia regional editor for the Journal of Information & Knowledge Management. Chu has obtained more than 30 research project grants with a total funding of more than one million dollars. His research interests cover the areas of twenty-first-century skills, social media in education, collaborative inquiry project-based learning, digital literacies, school and academic librarianship, game-based learning, and knowledge management and intellectual capital.