Yue Li

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Bio

Yue Li, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of educational sustainability in the School of Education at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Her research focuses on online and face-to-face professional development for formal and non-formal educators, and community-engaged learning to address sustainability challenges. She collaborates with scholars across disciplines and bridges quantitative and qualitative methods to conduct interdisciplinary research in both online and face-to-face settings, and in different cultural contexts. Her recent collaborative research projects include comparing online learning processes and outcomes for learners with different cultural and language backgrounds and exploring college students’ place attachment through an online photo sharing community. She has taught environment and sustainability courses at Cornell and UWSP, which have provided high quality and equitable learning opportunities for students, environmental and sustainability educators and other professionals from all over the world.

Experience and Interests

Teaching

• Assistant Professor, Educational Sustainability, UW-Stevens Point (2022-present)
• Research Associate, Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University (2019-2022)

Awards

• Environmental Education 30 leaders under 30 years old, NAAEE and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, 2016

Presentations and Publications

Presentations

• Li Y. (2023). Community Engagement in Educational Sustainability. Presentation at the 27th Annual UWSP Teaching Conference, Teaching for Social Justice (online). January 20, 2023.
• Li Y., Krasny, M. E., Russ A. and Armstrong A. (2022). Measuring Online Professional Development Outcomes for Environmental Educators. Presentation at the North American Association for Environmental Education Research Symposium (online). October 2022.
• Liu Y., Li Y., Jorgensen B. and Krasny, M. E. (2022). Environmental Actions to Address Plastic Pollution Across Cultures. Presentation at the North American Association for Environmental Education Research Symposium (online). October 2022.

Publications

• Li Y. & M. E. Krasny. 2022. Network climate action through MOOCs. In Social and Emotional Learning – An Inclusive Learning Analytics Perspective. Springer Nature. p. 311-329
• Cho, J., Y. Li, M. E. Krasny & R. F. Kizilcec. (2022). Measuring Cultural Dimensions of Learning in Online Courses. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (L@S). 395–399.
• Krasny M. E., Y. Li, D. Gonzales & A. Bartel. (2021) E-Engagement: Approaches to using digital communications in student-community engagement. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 25(4).
• Li Y., and M. E., Krasny. (2021) Relationship between networks and practice change in environmental education. The Journal of Environmental Education.
• Cho J. , Y. Li, M. E. Krasny, A. Russ & R. F. Kizilcec. (2021) Online learning and social norms: Evidence from a cross-cultural field experiment in a course for a cause. Computer-based Learning in Context. 3(1): 18-36.
• Cho, J., Y. Li, A. Armstrong, A., A. Russ, M. E. Krasny, & R. F. Kizilcec. (2021). Using Social Norms to Promote Actions Beyond the Course. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (L@S). 161-172.
• Li Y., and M. E. Krasny. (2020). Development of professional networks among environmental educators. Professional Development in Education. 46(2): 337-353.
• Krasny, M.E. and Y. Li. (2020). Scaling Up Environmental Actions through Global Online Learning Communities. Blue DOT. UNESCO. 12: p 36-39.
• Li, Y., and M. E. Krasny. (2019). Practice change in environmental education: Lessons from professional development. Environmental Education Research. 25(7): 1119-1136
• Li Y., M. E. Krasny, and A. Russ. (2016). Interactive learning in an urban environmental education online course. Environmental Education Research, 22(1): 111-118.

Involvement

Campus

• Member, College of Professional Studies Diversity Taskforce (2022-present)

Professional Memberships

• Member/Conference Abstract Reviewer, North American Association for Environmental Education
• Manuscript reviewer, Environmental Education Research, Journal of Environmental Education, Professional
• Development in Education, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
• Advisory Board Member, China National Nature Education Network (2018-2021)

Professional Service

• Conference Proposal Reviewer: North American Association for Environmental Education Annual Conference and Research Symposium, and American Educational Research Association Annual Conference
• Manuscript reviewer: Environmental Education Research, Journal of Environmental Education, Professional Development in Education, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Sustainability, Environment and Behavior