Jiani Wu Ed.D 🌈

Jiani Wu Ed.D 🌈

Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Deep gratitude for a father who showed me how to talk to the stars with wonder; a mother…

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Experience

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    MAGICommons

    Global

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    North Providence

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    Greater Boston Area

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    21 Drydock Ave, Boston, MA 02210

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    Boston, MA

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    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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    Boston, MA

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    Framingham, MA

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    Pittsburg, KS

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    P.R. China

Education

  • Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Graphic

    Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development

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    Advisor: Dr. Allen G. Harbaugh
    Dissertation Project: Updating A Survey Measuring Perceived Effectiveness of Mentoring Entrepreneurs

    *Different from a traditional PhD, this degree focuses on applying evidence-informed research to deliver desired outcomes and results.

    *This research is a first step to exploring how to harness social learning to expand perception, cognition, and accelerate dynamic skill development across industries.

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Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Association for Talent Development (ATD) Graphic

    Thought Leader

    Association for Talent Development (ATD)

    - Present 5 years 5 months

    Science and Technology

    The Association for Talent Development (ATD) is a professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees in organizations around the world. The association was previously known as the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD).

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    Team Coach

    The Learning Forum

    - 1 year 2 months

    Education

    The Learning Forum (TLF) Executive Council Network is a member-driven networking organization for senior executives of large multi-national and government organizations.

    We are currently working with Chief Learning Officers worldwide to tackle persistent and significant challenges in a disruptive yet exciting new world:

    👉How to best allocate and evaluate value for learning time for maximum performance alignment and growth?

    👉How to best build a structure of governance to…

    The Learning Forum (TLF) Executive Council Network is a member-driven networking organization for senior executives of large multi-national and government organizations.

    We are currently working with Chief Learning Officers worldwide to tackle persistent and significant challenges in a disruptive yet exciting new world:

    👉How to best allocate and evaluate value for learning time for maximum performance alignment and growth?

    👉How to best build a structure of governance to support talent alignment and growth?

    👉How to proactively speed to skills (with joy) ?

  • Mentor/Advisor

    LearnLaunch

    - Present 7 years 7 months

    Education

    Assist edtech startups in marketing, learning experience design, data insights etc

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    Contributor

    Thrive Global

    - Present 7 years 3 months

    Education

    I write articles about creativity and wellness.
    My profile is here: https://thriveglobal.com/authors/jiani-wu/

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    Mentor

    Junior Achievement USA

    - 8 months

    Economic Empowerment

    *Helped run the Junior Achievement (JA) Company Program at the BUzz lab at Boston University.
    *Helped students learn design thinking skills and gain knowledge on selecting a product, capitalizing a business idea, and selling, marketing, and delivering a product or service.
    * Helped students also learn life skills needed such as public speaking and persuasion, problem solving, presentation skills, creativity, and critical thinking.
    * The team developed a mobile phone back-sticky-folder…

    *Helped run the Junior Achievement (JA) Company Program at the BUzz lab at Boston University.
    *Helped students learn design thinking skills and gain knowledge on selecting a product, capitalizing a business idea, and selling, marketing, and delivering a product or service.
    * Helped students also learn life skills needed such as public speaking and persuasion, problem solving, presentation skills, creativity, and critical thinking.
    * The team developed a mobile phone back-sticky-folder business idea and won the National JA Student Leadership Summit Competition held at Northeastern University in May 2016.

    Junior Achievement programs for elementary, middle and high school students are designed to "help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply design thinking to the workplace.

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    Volunteer Coordinator

    UXPA Boston

    - Present 7 years 7 months

    Education


    I Served as a volunteer coordinator helping coordinate volunteer responsibilities and event organizer to ensure the success of the event. I served all the volunteers and created opportunities for them to provide help to experts and event participants, facilitating discussion and providing technical assistance.

Publications

  • Use a Microadaptive Learning Strategy to Enhance Group Coaching Effectiveness

    ATD (Association of Talent Development)

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  • Microlearning: Promoting Measurable Engagement to Drive Business Performance

    ATD (Association for Talent Development)

    Learning engagement is often thought of as a measure that only reflects participation, or simply completion, in a course. What’s needed is an engaging learning experience that results in knowledge mastery and has a direct effect on people’s performance toward business objectives. To address this, Jiani Wu, an expert instructional designer, and Qstream, a microlearning delivery technology, will bring together a conversation to help you design content for high and positive learner engagement…

    Learning engagement is often thought of as a measure that only reflects participation, or simply completion, in a course. What’s needed is an engaging learning experience that results in knowledge mastery and has a direct effect on people’s performance toward business objectives. To address this, Jiani Wu, an expert instructional designer, and Qstream, a microlearning delivery technology, will bring together a conversation to help you design content for high and positive learner engagement within your organization. Together, they redefine learning engagement and help you envision an enjoyable experience that motivates employees to acquire and retain the knowledge and skills to advance job performance and consequently drive business objectives.During this webinar you will learn about how:

    *To design an active, enjoyable, and engaging learning experience that cognitively challenges learners via testing, spacing, and reinforcement
    *To confirm engagement and learning responses that demonstrate employees have reached required proficiency levels
    * Engagement and proficiency metrics generate analytics to identify business risks and opportunities related to people skills

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  • Agile, Mobile, and Tactile: Student engagement strategies and techniques that work across online, hybrid, and/or flexible class settings.

    Pedagogicon 2021 Agile Teaching & Learning

    This session will explore creative and engaging micro-adaptive activities for translating your face-to-face courses to online or hybrid formats and vice versa. Micro-adaptive activities such as Icebreakers, game-based lessons, and immersive, tactile activities will be discussed.

  • Microlearning: A Pathway to Effective Training Retention and Behavioral Change

    Venngage

    Carefully-designed microlearning modules make information easier to digest and support employee behavioral change over time.

    It can also be gamified to boost employee engagement and community building.

    And yet, designing a microlearning module is more than chunking materials into short pieces. Effective microlearning modules require systematic design and process.

    This article will bring you on a journey to explore factors that impact learning, best practice of…

    Carefully-designed microlearning modules make information easier to digest and support employee behavioral change over time.

    It can also be gamified to boost employee engagement and community building.

    And yet, designing a microlearning module is more than chunking materials into short pieces. Effective microlearning modules require systematic design and process.

    This article will bring you on a journey to explore factors that impact learning, best practice of microlearning, key components of microlearning modules, and ways to gamify microlearning–all based on my decades of research and consulting practice in learning design.

    I’ve also partnered with Venngage, the simple design tool for business communication, to provide you templates so you can easily create your own microlearning modules.

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  • Updating the Metrics of Perceived Effectiveness of Mentoring Entrepreneurs

    Boston University

    In an era filled with tremendous technology advancement as well as increased levels of
    uncertainty, entrepreneurs as a cohort of aspiring thinkers and doers are trained as problem
    solvers for the modern challenges. Many universities and entrepreneur education centers …

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  • Social media, popular media, and technology: Factors in adolescent development of substance use disorders

    American Psychological Association

    Porche, M. V., Fortuna, L. R., & Wu J. (2016). Social media, popular media, and technology: Factors in adolescent development of substance use disorders. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Denver, CO.

  • Responding to regulatory, market, and information technology changes: Chinese newspapers in the transitional era.

    Global Media Journal

    During the past decades, along with the dramatic economic and social transitions
    in China, Chinese newspapers have been through significant changes in
    regulation, market, and information technology. This paper examines the key
    characteristics of these changes (e.g., regulatory loosening, market
    segmentation, and media convergence) as well as Chinese newspapers’
    strategic responses to the changes.

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  • Transcending Hegemonic Masculinity’s Alexiythymic Curse: Externalizing the Unspeakable in a Minor Key

    96th National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention. San Francisco, California.

  • New Media and Civic Engagement in China

    97th National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention. New Orleans, Louisiana

    Over the past decade, civic engagement has been drawing increasing public attention in China. It not only resonates with deliberate democracy that represents the latest development of western democratic theory and practice but also consists of the most important part of China's efforts in developing democratic politics. Many argue that civic engagement ensures the practice of civic rights, prevents the abuse of political power, enables more democratic and scientific decision making, promotes…

    Over the past decade, civic engagement has been drawing increasing public attention in China. It not only resonates with deliberate democracy that represents the latest development of western democratic theory and practice but also consists of the most important part of China's efforts in developing democratic politics. Many argue that civic engagement ensures the practice of civic rights, prevents the abuse of political power, enables more democratic and scientific decision making, promotes social harmony, and etc. In reality, however, Chinese civic engagement has long been plagued by two major problems, namely, civic disengagement and civic disorder. On the other hand, China has experienced rapid development of the Internet, mobile phone, and other new information technologies in recent years, which may offer effective solutions to these two problems.

    Through an informal case study, this article explores the role of new media in improving Chinese civic engagement. It first presents two major problems facing Chinese civic engagement: civic disengagement and civic disorder. These two problems seem mutually contradictory but factually share the same roots. This article analyzes their common roots from the perspective of information flow, participation channels, and participation motivation. Then the potential of new media in addressing the problems is discussed, and the role of new media in improving Chinese civic engagement is illustrated in the case study on the Xiamen PX event. A brief summary and discussion is finally offered.

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  • Anxiety, Depression, and Classroom-Based Programs

    Counseling Interviewer

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Courses

  • Advanced Instructional Software

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  • Advanced Research Seminar

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  • Basic Principle of Curriculum and Teaching

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  • Brand and product management (Coursera)

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  • Design of Multi Media

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  • Distance Education Research and Design

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  • Instructional Design

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  • Interactive Software

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  • Intro to Educational Media

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  • Machine Learning

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  • Negotiations

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  • Product marketing (coursera)

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  • Python Algorithmic Thinking

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  • Qualitative Research Method

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  • Quantitative Research Method

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  • Research Proposal Writing

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  • TV production for Education & Training

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  • Web 2.0 for Education

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  • google analytics (Coursera)

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Honors & Awards

  • Graduate Research and Scholarship Award (GRASA)

    Boston University

    The Graduate Research and Scholarship Award (GRASA) is a competitive award given to students to support research and travel to present at scholarly meetings. For research proposals, strong applicants will be those who are in good academic standing and propose a research project or activity that directly relates to helping the student achieve progress towards their degree.

  • Merit Based Scholarship

    Boston University School of Education

    SED Merit Scholarships are awarded based on academic and professional achievement and potential.

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC) First Prize

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    The Shared Learning Collaborative is an alliance of states, foundations, educators, content providers, developers and vendors who are passionate about using technology to improve education.

  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

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    Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest, largest, and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Its chapters are on more than 300 campuses in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Each year, approximately 30,000 members are initiated.

    Since its founding, Phi Kappa Phi has initiated more than 1 million members into its ranks; all of these members have received emblems and certificates of membership…

    Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest, largest, and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Its chapters are on more than 300 campuses in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Each year, approximately 30,000 members are initiated.

    Since its founding, Phi Kappa Phi has initiated more than 1 million members into its ranks; all of these members have received emblems and certificates of membership. However, Phi Kappa Phi is much more than an emblem and a line on a résumé. It is a global network comprised of the best and brightest from all academic disciplines - a community of scholars and professionals building an enduring legacy for future generations.

Languages

  • Mandarin

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Elementary proficiency

  • Japanese

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

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