Dr. Wanju Huang named 2022 Service-Learning Fellow

Dr. Wanju Huang, Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning Design & Technology in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Purdue University, has been named a Service-Learning Fellow for Spring 2022.

The Service-Learning Fellows Program is designed to foster the development and institutionalization of service-learning courses and curricula, projects, and scholarly pursuits at Purdue, as well as strengthen collaborative efforts and outcomes in communities.   

The program will officially begin January 2022 and end May 2022. During the spring semester, fellows will work closely with their community partner and the Service-Learning Director to collaboratively develop a successful, sustainable project and partnership. 

Prior to joining the LDT program, Dr. Huang was an instructional design manager at Teaching and Learning Technologies, Purdue Online, where she led a team of instructional designers and video producers for course design and development. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction (with a concentration in Technology) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For six years prior to joining Purdue in Fall 2016, she was a lecturer and an instructional designer at Eastern Kentucky University.

Dr. Huang has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses (e.g., learning theories and instructional design, educational applications of multimedia, statistics, critical thinking, and social intelligence) in face-to-face, blended, and online formats. Dr. Huang has published and presented research papers related to online learning and instructional design at national and international conferences. Her research interests include technology for building online communities, online identities and communication, the educational use of augmented reality, and the effectiveness of faculty development programs.

Learn more about Dr. Wanju Huang: https://education.purdue.edu//faculty-profiles/name/wanju-huang/

Read the Purdue News announcement about the 2022 Purdue Service-Learning Fellows Program: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/releases/2021/Q4/spring-2022-service-learning-fellowships-awarded-for-purdue-community-partnerships.html