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Nan Yang
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ORGANIZATIONBeijing Academy of Educational Sciences
PROFESSIONResearcher
COUNTRYChina
WEBSITEhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nan-yang-81bab842/

I am a researcher at the Institute of Higher Education, Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences.
Previously, I was doing research on eLearning during 2011 - 2015 and got my PhD at the University of Trento (Italy). The title of my thesis is Quality Teaching for Large University Classes: Designing Online Collaboration among Learners for Deep Understanding.
I have an educational background of Information Science for my Bachelor and Master Degree.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
collaborative learning, elearning quality, educational data mining
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