Professor David Hung was Dean of the Office of Education Research. He is a Professor at the National Institute of Education with teaching and research interests in learning, in particular, social-cultural orientations to cognition and communities of practice. He was also Head of EduLab at the Office of Education Research, an initiative designed to surface and spread ground-up Information and Communication Technology-based pedagogical innovations. He was the former Head of Educational Research Administration and Communication, Office of Education Research. He is currently a contributing editor of Educational Technology.
Professor Hung has conducted research in Learning and Instructional Technologies, Constructivism and Social Constructivism, Learning in Communities of Practice, and other related topics in the field, in recent years. Professor Hung's publications are internationally known, and he is well-recognised in the learning sciences.