PublicationsPublications & Manuscripts
This page brings together current manuscripts, conference publications, and presentation-adjacent research records in a form that stays useful for academic applications and collaboration.
Publications & Manuscripts
This page brings together current manuscripts, conference publications, and presentation-adjacent research records in a form that stays useful for academic applications and collaboration.
ManuscriptUnder review
Cultivating Systems Thinking through Game-Making: A Systematic Review on Curriculum Design
Fan, S.
Manuscript under review · 2025
A systematic review examining how game making for learning curriculum can cultivate systems thinking through design, iteration, and participation.
ManuscriptUnder review
Meaning & Purpose, Curiosity & Exploration: Motivational Rhetorics in China and Ontario Math Curricula
Fan, S.
Manuscript under review · 2025
A comparative study of how motivational rhetorics are articulated in mathematics curricula in China and Ontario.
ManuscriptUnder review
Have We Solved Them Yet? A Historical Analysis of Recurring Problem Constructions in Seminal Learning Design and Technology Literature
Fan, S.
Manuscript under review · 2026
A historical analysis of how foundational texts in learning design and technology repeatedly construct a familiar set of educational problems across decades of scholarship.
Refereed conference proceedingPublished
Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Tutoring System Based on the Octalysis Framework: Improving Motivational Design and Management within the System
Fan, S.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Game-Based Learning · 2020
Examines an AI tutoring system through the Octalysis framework to improve motivational design and management within the system.