Xinran Zhu

Xinran Zhu

Learning Analyst | Designer | Researcher

Ph.D. Candidate in Learning Sciences and Technologies

University of Pennsylvania - GSE

Hello!

Welcome!

This site is not being updated anymore, please go to https://zhu-xinran.com/ for my updates! Thank you for visiting my site :-)

Interests
  • Learning Sciences
  • Learning Analytics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Learning Technologies Design
Education
  • PhD in Learning Sciences and Technologies, 2024

    University of Pennsylvania

  • MA in Educational Psychology, 2018

    University of Connecticut

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Sep 2022 – Present Philadelphia
 
 
 
 
 
Instructional Designer
Sep 2019 – Sep 2022 Minneapolis
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Sep 2020 – Sep 2022 Minneapolis

Selected Publications and Presentations

(2022). Connecting Social Reading and Writing: A Social Annotation Synthesizer Tool. . Poster presented at the ISLS 2022 Conference (International Society of the Learning Science).

(2022). Socio-Semantic Network Motifs Framework for Discourse Analysis. In LAK22: 12th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK22), March 21–25, 2022.

Full-text

(2021). Designing Support for Productive Social Interaction and Knowledge Co-Construction in Collaborative Annotation. (Best Student Paper Award) Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computers in Education. Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.

Project Slides

(2021). Impact of a Social Annotation Platform on Knowledge Construction and Higher-Order Thinking Skills in an Online Global Health Ethics Graduate Course at Duke in Spring 2021. . Pandemic Pedagogy Research Symposium, Online..

(2020). Reading and connecting: Using social annotation in online classes. Information and Learning Sciences, Vol. 121 No. 5/6, pp. 261-271.

DOI Full-text