Associate Professor Eddy K. M. Chong is currently the Associate Dean for Programme Planning and Management at the Office of Teacher Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He manages NIE's Initial Teacher Preparation programmes at the diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate diploma levels, as well as the Bachelor of Science (Sport Science and Management) programme. He is currently serving as a senator of the university for the period 2023-2025.

As a musician cum music educator with the Visual and Performing Arts Academic Group, he maintains a portfolio of music and music-education related activities. He has taught courses primarily related to music theory and analysis at the diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels. He has also taught Music Theory and Analysis in the Advanced Diploma in Band Directing. Since completing his doctorate in Music Theory specializing in western music theory (particularly, in Schenkerian Theory), he has since broadened his interest to include music theories across different cultures – from non-western to pop and jazz – and has been developing pedagogical and curricular ideas for a music theory curriculum that is more multicultural rather than western-centric.

Since the late 2010s, he has been developing his secondary interest in technologies for teaching music. He developed edu-blogging as a pedagogical approach as well as worked with software programmers to develop a game-based music-learning applet programme, a web-based music-tutoring programme, a mobile music-tutoring app Harmonia-on-the-Go, and an e-gamelan using micro:bit and Scratch. He is presently looking at how computational thinking and related digital literacies can be incorporated into (music) teacher preparation to better prepare (music) teachers for the world of artificial intelligence.

He received the NIE Excellence in Teaching Commendation twice. His personal teaching philosophy and practice are founded on a belief in the importance of strong subject content knowledge (and skills) to ground pedagogical content knowledge. He has conducted numerous in-service workshops/courses for O- and A-level music teachers, and has served as a consultant to a number of schools on music-curricular matters as well as a panel member in syllabus-review committees at the invitation of the Ministry of Education (Singapore) for many years. He has also been invited to work with the Singapore Examination and Assessment Board. He has served as external assessor for Institutes of Higher Learning both locally and overseas.

Music Education
• music theory for a multicultural music curriculum
• Web 2.0 for music teaching (e.g. use of blogging), e-pedagogies
• AI and music education

General Education
• curricular design (e.g. Wiggins and McTighe's Understanding by Design)
• learning sciences for music teaching (e.g. situated learning, distributed cognition)
• interdisciplinary curriculum involving music
• pedagogical frameworks (e.g. Mishra and Koehler's TPCK model)
• digital literacies for teachers