Biography

Dr. Juhong Christie Liu is Professor and Director of Instructional Design in the Libraries of James Madison University (JMU). She leads instructional design (ID) programs and initiatives to serve the academic community at JMU in exploring and building innovative and accessible learning environments. She has taught graduate and undergraduate classes. Her research focuses on ID for digital learning environments, education design research (EDR), teaching and learning with emerging technologies, and evaluation and assessment for technology-mediated learning. Her scholarly works and activities can be found at Dr. Liu ORCID Scholar Profile and Google Scholar profile. One example is the Virginia's Academic Library Consortium (VIVA) and NSF sponsored OER textbook with her co-authorship and ID insights, Intro to Petrology. It is included in geoscience OER textbook collections such as Geosciences Libretexts, University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library, cited by OpenGeology.org, and on the catalogues of universities including Freien Universität Berlin and Villanova Library. According to the VIVA analytics, this OER book had 81.2K active users globally and 140k page views as of 2024.

Juhong has a Ph.D. degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Virginia Tech. Professionally, Juhong has leadership services with the Association of Educational Communications & Technology (AECT) as Design & Development Competition Committee chair (2023-present), Culture, Learning, and Technology (CLT) Division (president 2021-2022) and 2023-24 chair of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Instructional Technology Special Interest Group (AERA IT-SIG). Academically, she has served on NSF review panels, the advisory board of the VIVA IMLS Leadership Grant for COALA open homework repository, the editorial boards of TechTrends, Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE), and Journal of Computers for Science and Mathematics Learning (JCSML). She is currently an Associate Editor with Curriculum Journal of BERA.