Jiaqi Yu, PhD
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Jiaqi Yu, PhD

Building communities · Designing possibilities · Empowering educators

I build Communities of Practice, faculty development programs, and scholarly infrastructure in health sciences education. What connects the work is a commitment to making scholarship sustainable for the people doing it — clinical educators, instructional designers, and emerging scholars building careers in a field that rarely stops changing.

Now

At UNT Health at Fort Worth, I serve as Assistant Director of Instructional Innovation and Project Management. As founder of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Collective, I have built five interconnected Communities of Practice — now engaging 150+ faculty and 20+ active SoTL projects — and I lead institution-wide initiatives in faculty development, instructional design, and educational research.

Then

Across more than a decade of practice, I have shaped how higher education prepares instructional design teams to lead complex projects — through cross-institutional collaborations with the Online Learning Consortium, EDUCAUSE and Penn State's ID2ID program, and the POD Network. My co-led redesign of an online public health course earned the Delta Omega Innovative Curriculum Runner-Up Award in 2024. I hold a PhD in Curriculum & Instructional Technology (co-major, Human–Computer Interaction) from Iowa State University.

Next

Three commitments shape my next chapter: sustaining educator well-being inside ambitious instructional change; integrating generative AI into teaching with rigor, transparency, and care for faculty trust; and building an ICF-credentialed coaching practice grounded in the same principles that guide my faculty development work.

Education & credentials

  • PhD, Curriculum & Instructional Technology (co-major, Human–Computer Interaction) — Iowa State University
  • MEd, Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development — University of Toronto
  • BA — Beijing Normal University
  • IELOL Fellow, Online Learning Consortium
  • Certified Quality Matters Coordinator

Selected service

  • Advisory Committee, EDUCAUSE / Penn State ID2ID Peer Mentoring Program (2024–2025)
  • Board of Directors nomination, Online Learning Consortium (2024–2026)
  • Peer mentor across multiple ID2ID cohorts
  • Founder, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Collective at UNT Health
Beyond the CV Roots & Leadership Philosophy → What guides my work — first-generation scholar, immigrant, working parent, and what those experiences produce in professional practice. Full record Download CV (PDF) → 12 pages. Education, experience, publications, presentations, awards, service, grants.

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