The Current Landscape of Educational Technology: A Bird's Eye View

Minjuan Wang, PhD Dr. Wang Minjuan received her B.A. from Chinese Literature, Beijing University (1995); M.A. in Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University (1997); and Ph.D. in Information Science and Learning Technologies from University of Missouri-Columbia (2001). Minjuan was a research coordinator for the Center for Technology Innovations in Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She also worked as an instructional design consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and collaborated with Motorola University in conducting research and evaluation on the Internet-based Expeditions (iExpeditions) program.

Currently, she teaches Methods of Inquiry, Instructional Design, Technologies for Course Delivery, and Technologies for Teaching at San Diego State University. Her research specialties focus on the sociocultural aspects of online learning (e.g., engaging learning with emerging technologies, gender and cultural differences in online collaboration) and technological interventions in language and literacy education. She has peer-reviewed articles published in Educational Media International, TechTrend, and the International Journal of Educational Technology. She has also published several book chapters on engagement in online problem solving, informal learning via the Internet, and effective learning in multicultural and multilingual classrooms. Her paper on Gender, discourse style, and equal participation in online learning won an outstanding paper award from E-Learn 2002: world conference on E-learning in corporate, government, healthcare, and higher education.

She gave a Lecture” The Current Landscape of Educational Technology: A Bird's Eye View” on Mar 17, 2004, at 6th Floor, Haoran High-tech Building, Shanghai Jiaotong University.