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Associate Professor, Director of Digital Education Programme, Department of Educational Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Are you ready for the digital future?
Despite technological advances, higher education has yet to benefit from technological innovations. Covid-19 forced universities to embrace online and hybrid learning and teaching supported by virtual learning environments (VLEs) and other tools. Many teachers are questioning whether this “new normal” should stay or if we should return to pre-pandemic approaches. These questions have prompted me to reflect on how we can use technology to improve education.

I’m Na (Lina) Li, Senior Fellow of Advance HE, Associate Professor and Director of Digital Education Programme in the Department of Educational Studies within the Academy of Future Education at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). As a researcher with over ten years of experience in higher education, I explore how technology can develop better education.

In one of my case studies, I interviewed teachers and managers from XJTLU to understand why they do not use technology in education. I have discovered that teachers only use technology in education when it has a clear purpose and benefit. For example, during Covid-19, teachers used technologies, such as Zoom, for distance teaching because the purpose and benefit were clear. However, before Covid-19, XJTLU implemented technology with similar functions, but teachers refused to use it.

My vision of research is to help universities consistently develop to adopt technology to provide quality education.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  • 2023–present
    Programme Director, Digital Education, Department of Educational Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  • 2021–2022
    Assistant Professor, Educational Development Unit, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  • 2019–2021
    Senior Educational Technologist, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  • 2015–2019
    Educational Technologist, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  • 2012–2015
    Team Leader of Application Team, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  • 2008–2012
    Department Manager, Digital China
  • 2006–2008
    Senior System Designer, BenQ Co., LTD

Education

  • 2022 
    Advance Higher Education, SFHEA
  • 2022 
    University of Liverpool, PhD
  • 2014 
    University of Science and Technology of China, Master
  • 2006 
    Jiangsu University, Bachler

Publications

  • 2023
    Using a Moodle-based digital escape room to train competent EMI lecturers and instructors in a multilingual environment: A case study in Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. English Medium Instruction Universities in Multilingual China: Teaching with Technology, Springer
  • 2023
    Extending The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to Predict University Students’ Intentions to Use Metaverse-based Learning Platforms, Education and Information Technologies
  • 2023
    Examining gains and pains of a new virtual internship design, Distance Education
  • 2023
    Using H5P to Enrich Online Learning Engagement in a Postgraduate Certificate Program Teaching. In A. ElSayary & A. Olowoselu (Eds.), Overcoming Challenges in Online Learning, Routledge
  • 2022
    Post-COVID-19 Development of Transnational Education in China: Challenges and Opportunities, Education Sciences
  • 2022
    Role of perceived self-efficacy in automated project allocation: measuring university students’ perceptions of justice in interdisciplinary project-based learning, Computers in Human Behavior
  • 2022
    Understanding the perceived pedagogical value of JazzQuiz in interactive hybrid learning among university students: a technology acceptance analysis, Interactive Learning Environments
  • 2022
    Meaning-making in virtual learning environment enabled educational innovations: A 13-year longitudinal case study, Interactive Learning Environments
  • 2022
    Disrupting the Disruption: A Digital Learning HeXie Ecology Model, Education Sciences
  • 2021
    Investigation of Face-to-Face Class Attendance, Virtual Learning Engagement and Academic Performance in a Blended Learning Environment, International Journal of Information and Education Technology
  • 2021
    Improving interdisciplinary online course design through action learning: a chinese case study, Action Learning: Research and Practice
  • 2021
    A country’s national culture affects virtual learning environment adoption in higher education: a systematic review (2001–2020), Interactive Learning Environments

Grants and Contracts

  • 2023
    Digital Game-Based Innovative Teaching for Student-Centred Active Learning
    Role:
    Principle Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  • 2023
    AdvanceHE Global Impact Grant 2022-2023
    Role:
    Principle Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Advance HE
  • 2022
    Pedagogical research and practice: H5P-assisted curriculum design for hybrid learning in XJTLU
    Role:
    Principle Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Professional Memberships

  • British Educational Research Association (BERA)
  • American Educational Research Association (AERA)
  • Advance Higher Education