Dr Xiaojun Zhang got his PhD degree at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He joined Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as the Deputy Director of Institute of Leadership and Education Advanced Development (ILEAD) in 2013, which was created by him under the support of university leaders. Now Xiaojun is the University Chief Officer of Education; Executive Dean of the Academy of Future Education at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Xiaojun also takes the role of Acting Dean of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub in Entrepreneur College (Taicang) at XJTLU since August 2022.
Xiaojun is an edupreneur who initiated all the four units within the Academy of Future Education. He was appointed as Head of ILEAD in 2017 when ILEAD became a department of Education. He restructured the faculty development centre at XJTLU and built the team of Educational Development Unit (EDU) in 2018. The Department of Educational Studies (EDS) was created by Xiaojun in 2019, and Learning Institute for Future Excellence (LIFE), as an innovative platform to support student transfarmation and global citizenship competence development at XJTLU, was created under his leadership in 2021.
Dr Zhang led the development of several projects with national level impact. He created XJTLU National University Teaching Innovation Award in 2016, developed the Association for Sustainable Faculty Development in Higher Education in 2018 with more than 90 institutional members, and initiated the ILEAD Talk series established in more than 20 cities in China.
Dr Zhang is a Principal Fellow of Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) in UK.
One of Xiaojun’s current work focuses on educating the educators in universities, including teachers, professionals, and institutional leaders and managers. He has developed many professional development programmes for educational practitioners across the country. His programmes were attended by more than 15,000 staff from more than 500 Chinese universities. Since 2013 he has been invited for more than 200 speeches for educational practitioners and researchers on the topic of education and teaching innovation. Xiaojun created one of the most influential community for teaching innovation in China: XJTLU National University Teaching Innovation Award. More than 4,250 innovative teachers from 500 Chinese universities applied for this award since 2016. Every year there are millions of online visits to this events, and there has accumulated more than 500 excellent teaching innovation cases.
Dr Zhang’s research area includes institutional change and institutional logics; Educational leadership; Internationalization in Higher Education, especially the Sino-foreign Cooperative universities; Future education in the AI era; University transfarmation and teaching innovation, in particular research-led learning and teaching; student-centred education; student transition etc. Dr Zhang welcomes PhD applications in these areas.
Xiaojun has published more than 100 academic papers and 5 books. His research focus on problems in practice and pay attention to practical implications. Most of his research has been adopted in his training programmes for higher education practitioners. One of his most recent books titled "University Transfarmation: From Teacher Dominated to Student-Centred" published by Tsinghua University Press is a guidebook for education practitioners who want to transform their education. Xiaojun proposed the "diamond model" of teaching innovation in AI era and highlighted ten key directions of teaching innovation in his another recently published book "Future-oriented Teaching Innovation" by Economic and Management Press.
Experience
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2023–presentChief Officer of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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2021–presentExecutive Dean, Academy of Future Education, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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2022–presentActing Dean, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub, XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicnag), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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2020–2022Dean, ILEAD, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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2018–2020Head of Department, ILEAD, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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2013–2018Executive Academic Assistant to Executive President, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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2013–2018Deputy Director, ILEAD, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Education
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2020Advanced Higher Education, Principal Fellow
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2012Xi'an Jiaotong University, PhD
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2007Xidian University, Bachelar
Publications
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2022Editorial: Rigorous and high-quality efficacy studies of educational technology interventions, Front. Educ
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2022Understanding the perceived pedagogical value of JazzQuiz in interactive hybrid learning among university students: a technology acceptance analysis, Interactive Learning Environments
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2022Intercultural competence developmental processes of university and college students as three types of transition – A systematic review, International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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2022Role of perceived self-efficacy in automated project allocation: measuring university students’ perceptions of justice in interdisciplinary project-based learning, Computers in Human Behavior
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2022Meaning-making in virtual learning environment enabled educational innovations: a 13-year longitudinal case study, Interactive Learning Environments
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2022How Chinese students manage their transition to higher education effectively: student initiative at Sino-Foreign cooperative universities, Asia Pacific Journal of Education
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2022Disrupting the Disruption: A Digital Learning HeXie Ecology Model, Education Sciences
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2021A country’s national culture affects virtual learning environment adoption in higher education: A systematic review (2001-2020), Interactive Learning Environments
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2020How Governmental Agencies Legitimize Organizations: A Case Study on Chinese Business Schools from 1977 to 2014, Academy of Management Learning & Education
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2019Living in the Present of the Future: In Memory of James G. March (1928–2018), Management and Organization Review
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2018International and Transnational Education for Whose Interests? A Study on the Career Development of Chinese Students, Higher Education Quarterly
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2018Promoting management education in China through developing practice-based management theories: An interview with Practitioner-Scholar Youmin Xi, Journal of Management Inquiry
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2017The Sociality of Resources: Understanding Organizational Competitive Advantage from a Social Perspective, Asia Pacific Journal of Management
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2017Assuring quality in transnational higher education: a case study of Sino-foreign Cooperation University in China, Quality Assurance in Asia-Pacific Universities
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2016Co-evolution between Institutional Environments and Organizational Change: The Mediating Effects of Managers’ Uncertainty, Journal of Organizational Change Management
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2014Contorted leadership in the Chinese Hierarchically oriented context: the influence of social governance on organizational leaders, Chinese Management Studies
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2013Guest editors’ introduction: Mastering Chinese business model by conducting indigenous management research, Chinese Management Studies
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2012Understanding indigenous leadership research: Explication and Chinese examples, The Leadership Quarterly
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2012Replying to management challenges: integrating oriental and occiddental wisdom by HeXie Management Theory, Chinese Management Studies
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2011Ambidextrous organization in harmony: A multi-case exploration of the value of HeXie management theory, Chinese Management Studies
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