About
Jia Li is a Professor at Mitch & Leslie Frazer Faculty of Education, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She received her doctoral degree from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto and conducted her post-doctoral research work at Queen’s University. She was a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 2011 to 2012, and a John A. Sproul Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 2018 to 2019.
Her teaching and professional experience include instructional design and assessment of technology-assisted educational interventions using both quantitative and qualitative methods. She has developed and taught online and in-person courses for diverse undergraduate, B.Ed. and graduate students. Dr. Li research agenda focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to address challenge areas in education by leveraging digital technologies, in particular data-driven innovative language and literacy interventions using new technologies to support the development of academic reading and writing skills for linguistically diverse students. These include diverse urban students from low income families, university English language learners and Indigenous youth.
Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Fulbright Canada. The results of her work have been published in high impact journals including Computers & Education, Computers in Human Behavior, Teaching and Teacher Education, Language Learning & Technology, Computer Assisted Language Learning, System, Canadian Modern Language Review, and Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology.
Dr. Jia Li is a reviewer for 27 refereed journals, of which many reported high Impact Factors. These include the top 3 journals in education and technology, the top 2 journals in technology assisted language learning, the top 1 journal in teacher education, the top 1 journal in medical internet research, and a top 3 journal in education. She is Chairperson of Publications for the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS) and serves for Editorial Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of Education (CJE)/La Revue canadienne de l'éducation (RCE).
Her teaching and professional experience include instructional design and assessment of technology-assisted educational interventions using both quantitative and qualitative methods. She has developed and taught online and in-person courses for diverse undergraduate, B.Ed. and graduate students. Dr. Li research agenda focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to address challenge areas in education by leveraging digital technologies, in particular data-driven innovative language and literacy interventions using new technologies to support the development of academic reading and writing skills for linguistically diverse students. These include diverse urban students from low income families, university English language learners and Indigenous youth.
Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Fulbright Canada. The results of her work have been published in high impact journals including Computers & Education, Computers in Human Behavior, Teaching and Teacher Education, Language Learning & Technology, Computer Assisted Language Learning, System, Canadian Modern Language Review, and Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology.
Dr. Jia Li is a reviewer for 27 refereed journals, of which many reported high Impact Factors. These include the top 3 journals in education and technology, the top 2 journals in technology assisted language learning, the top 1 journal in teacher education, the top 1 journal in medical internet research, and a top 3 journal in education. She is Chairperson of Publications for the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS) and serves for Editorial Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of Education (CJE)/La Revue canadienne de l'éducation (RCE).
