Jiaqi Yu, PhD

Projects

Six projects across institutional Communities of Practice, cross-institutional collaboration, faculty partnership, and community-led work — selected because together they show how the same design principles travel from a faculty development program at UNT Health to a national peer mentoring network to a bilingual book club in Dallas–Fort Worth.

Faculty development

EPID 5300 Principles of Epidemiology: A UDL-Grounded Redesign

A 3-month UDL-grounded redesign of a foundational epidemiology course — 20+ interactive modules, sustained faculty partnership, and a national Delta Omega Innovative Curriculum Runner-Up Award.

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Cross-institutional collaboration

ID2ID: A Cross-Institutional Peer Mentoring Program for Instructional Designers

Service, scholarship, and network leadership inside a decade-old Community of Practice — Advisory Committee work, multi-cohort mentor and mentee participation, and co-authorship of the forthcoming Routledge chapter documenting the program.

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Pedagogical wellness

Pedagogical Wellness: A Community of Practice & Microcredential

A POD Network–funded mixed-methods study and faculty development structure that positions wellness as a design problem, not a self-care problem — with a microcredential pathway in development.

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Project management for IDs

Project Management for Instructional Designers: A Multi-Institutional Collaborative

More than a decade of cross-institutional work — OLC panels, EDUCAUSE / Penn State ID2ID mentoring, HigherID Podcast Ep 13 (most-listened of its season) — building shared vocabulary, templates, and mentorship pathways for ID project leadership.

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Mini case study

EmpowHer: A Bilingual Community of Practice for First-Generation Asian Women in DFW

A two-year-old bilingual Community of Practice for first-generation Asian women in DFW — proving that CoP design principles travel beyond institutional sponsorship.

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