Dr. Yu-Chang Hsu is Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at Boise State University. He earned his PhD in Instructional Systems with a doctoral minor in Educational Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. He also holds two degrees of EdM in TESOL and Education and Technology from SUNY at Buffalo. His research interests include learning and instruction innovation through emerging technologies, cognitive and metacognitive processes of integrating multiple representations in STEM fields, and collaborative learning. He has been selected as one of the mLearning Scholars of Boise State University in both 2011 and 2012 for integrating and studying mobile learning and Web 2.0 technologies in his class. He also teaches graduate courses on research method, graphic design for learning, and mobile app design.
Refereed Articles
Empowering Educators with Google's Android App Inventor: An Online Workshop in Mobile App Design (with Kerry Rice and Lisa Dawley), British Journal of Educational Technology (2012)
In this report, the authors describe an introductory-level mobile app design workshop developed and offered...
Microblogging for Strengthening a Virtual Learning Community in an Online Course (with Yu-Hui Ching), Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (2011)
This paper examines how a microblogging tool (i.e., Twitter) can be effectively used to strengthen...
Design-Grounded Assessment: A Framework and a Case Study of Web 2.0 Practices in Higher Education (with Yu-Hui Ching), Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (2011)
This paper synthesises three theoretical perspectives, including sociocultural theory, distributed cognition, and situated cognition, into...
Learning from animation: The effect of prior knowledge and navigation mode (with Huifen Lin, Yu-Hui Ching, and Francis Dwyer), International Journal of Instructional Media (2010)
The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional effectiveness of different navigation modes...
Undergraduate Students' Self-Regulated Learning Experience in Web-Based Learning Environments (with Yu-Hui Ching, Jonathan P. Mathews, and Alison Carr-Chellman), Quarterly Review of Distance Education (2009)
This phenomenological study explored 5 undergraduate students' experiences in a Web-based general science course through...
Book Chapters
Web 2.0 Technologies as Cognitive Tools of the New Media Age (with Yu Hui Ching and Barbara Grabowski), Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges (2009)
Web 2.0 affordances have changed the landscape of technology use for learning, knowledge construction, and...
Presentations
Webinar: Education in the Age of Mobility, Teacher Education Division and Graduate Student Assembly, Association of Educational Communications and Technology (2012)
Dr. Hsu presented his teaching and research on the use of the Google and Massachusetts...
Augmented reality for learning and teaching: A literature review of the state-of-the-art, Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Annual International Convention (2011)
Mobile computer-supported collaborative learning (mCSCL): A review of experimental research., Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Annual International Convention (2011)
This paper examined the latest international studies on mobile computer-supported collaborative learning (mCSCL). We selected...
Mobile social learning in an online course: A mixed-method study., Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Annual International Convention (2011)
This research investigated the impact of mobile technology and social web on students’ sense of...
Toys and Mathematical Options for Retention in Engineering (Toys’n MORE): Initial Implementation of the Four Intervention Strategies (with Janice M. Margle, Catherine L. Cohan, Jill L. Lane, Amy Freeman, Javier Gomez-Calderon, Dhushy Sathianathan, and Renata S. Engel), 118th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (2011)
This paper presents preliminary data from the initial implementation of a project referred to as...