Professor Distinto da Fundação na Universidade do Kansas, o Dr. Yong Zhao é Professor Distinto da Fundação na Escola de Educação da Universidade do Kansas. Ele anteriormente serviu como Presidente Titular, Vice-Decano e Diretor do Instituto para Educação Global e Online na Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de Oregon, onde também foi professor no Departamento de Medição Educacional, Política e Liderança. Antes de Oregon, Yong Zhao foi Professor Distinto na Faculdade de Educação da Michigan State University, onde também atuou como diretor fundador do Centro de Ensino e Tecnologia, diretor executivo do Instituto Confúcio, bem como do Centro EUA-China para Pesquisa sobre Excelência Educacional. Ele é membro eleito da Academia Nacional de Educação e membro da Academia Internacional de Educação. Yong Zhao recebeu diversos prémios, incluindo o Prémio de Carreira Inicial da Associação Americana de Pesquisa Educacional, Educador Público de Destaque da Horace Mann League dos EUA, Prémio de Realização Distinta em Desenvolvimento Profissional da Associação de Editores de Educação, Prémio ACEL Nganakarrawa, Prémio de Artefato de Aprendizagem Digital de Destaque AECT 2022 e Prémio de Desenvolvimento Distinto AECT. Ele foi reconhecido como um dos académicos mais influentes na área da educação. Seus trabalhos focam-se nas implicações da globalização e tecnologia na educação. Ele publicou mais de 100 artigos e quase 40 livros, incluindo Focused: Understanding, Negotiating, and Maximizing Your Influence as a School Leader (w J. Watterston) (2024), Duck and Cover: Confronting and Correcting Dubious Practices in Education (w R. Ginsberg) (2023), Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao (w G. W. McDiarmid) (2023), Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students in a Rapidly Evolving World (w G. W. McDiarmid) (2022), Learners without Borders (2021), Teaching Students to Become Self Determined Learners (w M. Wehmeyer) (2021), An Education Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: How Radical Changes Can Spark Student Excitement and Success (2019) What Works May Hurt: Side Effects in Education (2018), Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children (2018), Counting What Counts: Reframing Education Outcomes(2016), Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job: Correcting Top 5 Ed Tech Mistakes (2015), Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World (2014), Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization (2009)and World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students (2012). Ele também trabalhou com diversas escolas para desenhar novos modelos de educação dentro do sistema escolar existente. Zhao nasceu na província de Sichuan, na China. Ele obteve sua licenciatura em Ensino da Língua Inglesa no Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages em Chongqing, China, em 1986. Após ensinar inglês na China por seis anos, ele foi para o Linfield College como pesquisador visitante em 1992. Em 1993, iniciou seus estudos de pós-graduação na Universidade de Illinois em Urbana-Champaign. Ele obteve o mestrado em Educação em 1994 e o doutoramento em 1996. Ele ingressou no corpo docente da MSU em 1996 após trabalhar como Coordenador do Centro de Línguas na Willamette University e especialista em línguas no Hamilton College.
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Foundation Distinguished Professor at The University of Kansas Dr. Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. He previously served as the Presidential Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he was also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. Prior to Oregon, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the International Academy of Education. Yong Zhao has received numerous awards including the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association, Outstanding Public Educator from Horace Mann League of USA, Distinguished Achievement Award in Professional Development from the Association of Education Publishers, ACEL Nganakarrawa Award, and AECT 2022 Outstanding Digital Learning Artifact Award and AECT Distinguished Development Award. He has been recognized as one of the most influential education scholars. His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. He has published over 100 articles and nearly 40 books, including Focused: Understanding, Negotiating, and Maximizing Your Influence as a School Leader (w J. Watterston) (2024), Duck and Cover: Confronting and Correcting Dubious Practices in Education (w R. Ginsberg) (2023), Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao (w G. W. McDiarmid) (2023), Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students in a Rapidly Evolving World (w G. W. McDiarmid) (2022), Learners without Borders (2021), Teaching Students to Become SelfDetermined Learners (w M. Wehmeyer) (2021), An Education Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: How Radical Changes Can Spark Student Excitement and Success (2019) What Works May Hurt: Side Effects in Education (2018), Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children (2018), Counting What Counts: Reframing Education Outcomes(2016), Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job: Correcting Top 5 Ed Tech Mistakes (2015), Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World (2014), Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization (2009)and World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students (2012). He has also worked with numerous schools to design new models of education within the existing school. Zhao was born in China’s Sichuan Province. He received his B.A. in English Language Education from Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqing, China in 1986. After teaching English in China for six years, he came to Linfield College as a visiting scholar in 1992. He then began his graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. He received his master’s 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.
