Rate My Professor Richard Zeng

Richard Zeng is a Professional Practice Fellow at the University of Otago, where he also serves as a Senior Software Engineer in the Student Management Value Stream within Information Technology Services. He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from China. Before moving to New Zealand, Zeng worked for several international companies. His professional interests focus on programming, particularly web programming with Java as his favorite language, and utilizing relational databases with dynamic web technologies. His career goal is to work as a professional programmer. Contactable at +64 3 479 5458, Zeng contributes to the university's technological support for student management and educational initiatives.

Zeng has contributed to the field of educational technology through collaborative research, co-authoring several peer-reviewed conference papers, primarily for the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite). Key publications include: McDonald, J., Liu, D., Moskal, A. C. M., Zeng, R., Blumenstein, M., Gunn, C., et al. (2016). Cross-institutional collaboration to support student engagement: SRES version 2. In Proceedings of the 33rd ASCILITE Conference (pp. 397-405); Ma, S., Hesson, G., Zeng, R., & Loke, S.-K. (2014). ImpressDent: Learning how to make dental impressions with a computer simulation. In Proceedings of ASCILITE 2014 (pp. 378-382); McDonald, J., Knott, A., Stein, S., & Zeng, R. (2013). An empirically-based, tutorial dialogue system: design, implementation and evaluation in a first year health sciences course. In Proceedings of ASCILITE 2013 (pp. 562-572); Zaharic, T., Russell, L., Bishop, P., van der Meer, J., Zeng, R., & McDonald, J. (2013). Towards the use of podcasts as an integrated teaching tool. In Proceedings of the Spotlight on Teaching and Learning Colloquium (p. 12); McDonald, J., Knott, A., & Zeng, R. (2012). Free-text input vs menu selection: Exploring the difference with a tutorial dialogue system. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (Vol. 10, pp. 97-105). These works cover student engagement systems, dental simulations, intelligent tutoring, podcast tools, and input method comparisons in educational contexts.