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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 professional development for formal and non-formal educators, interventions to enhance learning and action, and community-engaged learning to address environmental and 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 centers on nature-based environmental education, sense of place, transformative learning, and generative AI in teaching and learning. 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)
• Faculty Fellow, Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning, UW-Stevens Point (2024-present)

Research

• Research Associate, Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University (2019-2022)

Presentations and Publications

Presentations

• Li, Y., Armstrong A. & Krasny, M. E. (2024). Student Teaching Assistants’ Global Engaged-learning through MOOCs. iPresentation at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference. April 11-14, 2024, Philadelphia, PA.
• Li, Y., Chan, Y. W. & Tseng, Y. C. (2024). Nature-based Environmental Education in China: A Scholarly Review. Presentation at the North American Association for Environmental Education Research Symposium. November 5-6, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA.
• St Maurice, H., Li, Y., Cook, P. & Solinsky, C. (2024). The Land Ethic at the Landfill. Presentation at the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education Annual Conference. October 24-26, 2024, Wisconsin Dells, WI.
• Redman, E., Li, Y., Fernholz, L., Scheder, C. (2024). Deliberate Phases of Transformative Learning Theory Applied to an Educational Sustainability Doctoral Program. Presentation at the International Transformative Learning Conference. September 11-13, 2024, Tuscany, Italy. Non-presenting co-author.

Publications

• Li, Y., Armstrong, A. K. & Krasny, M. E. (2024). MOOC teaching assistants’ global engaged-learning in the United States and China. Online Learning. 28(4), 147-171.
• Xiang, M., Zhang, J., & Li, Y. (2024). Examining the dynamics of knowledge convergence in online learning context: A network perspective. Computers and Education.
• Li Y. and M. E. Krasny. (2022). Network climate action through MOOCs. In Wang, Y., Joksimović, S., San Pedro, M.O.Z., Way, J.D., Whitmer, J. (eds) Social and Emotional Learning and Complex Skills Assessment. An Inclusive Learning Analytics Perspective. Springer. 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. 52(3): 174-189.
• 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, University Institution Review Board (IRB) Committee (2023-present)
• Member, College of Professional Studies Diversity Taskforce (2022-present)

Professional Service

• Co-program chair, Environmental Education Special Interest Group (SIG) at AERA (2024-2025)
• Guest editor, Integrative Conservation, Special Issue on Nature Education: Connecting Humans and Nature for Conservation in China (2024)
• 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