BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:179@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20150221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20150221T100000 DTSTAMP:20231222T082942Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/yong-zhao-education-and -globalization/ SUMMARY:Dr. Yong Zhao on "Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Educatio n in the Age of Globalization" *Global Education Series* DESCRIPTION:Missed this program? Listen to the podcast on Alaska Public Med ia by clicking here.\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio:\nDr. Yong Zhao is an internat ionally known scholar\, author\, and speaker. His works focus on the impli cations of globalization and technology on education. He has designed scho ols that cultivate global competence\, developed computer games for langua ge learning\, and founded research and development institutions to explore innovative education models. He has published over 100 articles and 20 bo oks\, including Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entr epreneurial Students.\n\nDr. Zhao is a recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association and was named one of t he 2012 10 most influential people in educational technology by the Tech & amp\; Learn Magazine. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy for Education. His latest book World Class Learners has won several award s including the Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2013)\, Ass ociation of Education Publishers’ (AEP) Judges’ Award and Distinguishe d Achievement Award in Education Leadership(2013).\nHe currently serves as the Presidential Chair and Director of the Institute for Global and Onlin e Education in the College of Education\, University of Oregon\, where he is also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement\, Policy\ , and Leadership.\n\nUntil December\, 2010\, Yong Zhao was University Dist inguished Professor at the College of Education\, Michigan State Universit y\, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teachi ng and Technology\, executive director of the Confucius Institute\, as wel l as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence.\n\nDr. Zh ao was born in China’s Sichuan Province. He received his B.A. in English Language Education from Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqi ng\, China in 1986. After teaching English in China for six years\, he cam e to Linfield College as a visiting scholar in 1992. He then began his gra duate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. H e received his A.M. in Education in 1994 and Ph.D. in 1996. He joined the faculty at MSU in 1996 after working as the Language Center Coordinator at Willamette University and a language specialist at Hamilton College.\n\n\ n\nThis program was made possible by the following sponsors:\n\n \;\n\ n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with:\n\n \n\n           \n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/wp-content/upload s/2014/12/BioYZhao.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Education Series,International Program Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20141102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0900 TZNAME:AKST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR