Bringing VR to Your Class/School: Where to Start

Yingjie Liu

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2017 (Jun 20, 2017) pp. 963–967

Will virtual reality be a good fit for your own class? How to proactively integrate innovative technology, such as virtual reality (VR) to enhance the teaching and learning experience in your own classroom? This study presents the findings from a...

Topics: SIG: Emerging Technologies for Learning and Teaching

Strategies for Engaging Faculty in Instructional Design

Yingjie Liu; Patrick Dempsey

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2017 (Jun 20, 2017) pp. 584–588

Lack of faculty buy-in is the number one obstacle to effective instructional design. This study presents the results of a national survey of institutes of higher education on the challenges faced by, and best practices used by, instructional design...

Topics: Instructor Training and Support

Exploring Student Identity in an Intercultural Web-Assisted Scientific Inquiry Project

Yingjie Liu; Robert D. Hannafin

Journal of Research in International Education Vol. 9, No. 2 (August 2010) pp. 124–140

This qualitative study based on Gee's (2001) identity theory examined and compared how American and Chinese middle school students develop identities towards science, culture and technology in an intercultural web-assisted scientific inquiry project....

Effects of Spatial Ability and Instructional Program on Geometry Achievement

Robert D. Hannafin; Mary P. Truxaw; Jennifer R. Vermillion; Yingjie Liu

Journal of Educational Research Vol. 101, No. 3 (2008) pp. 148–157

The authors investigated the effects of student spatial ability, as measured by Raven's Progressive Colored Matrices (J. C. Raven, 1938) and type of instructional program on geometry achievement. Sixth-grade students worked through either 6...