San Diego State University
Chinese Students and Scholars Association
圣地亚哥州立大学中国学生学者联合会
Bio: Minjuan Wang (王敏娟简介)
Contact: mwang@mail.sdsu.edu
5500 Campanile Dr. North ED 280
San Diego State University,
San Diego, CA 92182-1182
(T)619.594.3878 (f)619.594.6376 Homepage:
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/mwang/mwang.html
Linked-In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/minjuan
http://twitter.com/minjuan
Sina.com blog: http://blog.sina.com.cn/bellelune (with close to 30,000 followers)
Dr. Minjuan Wang is an Associate Professor of Educational Technology at San
Diego State University (SDSU). She is an adjunct faculty at Shanghai Jiaotong
University; and a research associate for Shanghai Distance Education Inc. She is also
a designer for Creative Science Inc., a U.K. company.
She teaches Methods of Inquiry, Designing and Developing for the Global Audience,
Technologies for Course Delivery, and Technologies for Teaching. Her research
specialties focus on the sociocultural aspects of online learning, mobile learning, and
technological interventions in language and literacy education. Currently, she
conducts research on teaching and learning in international multicultural settings and
the use of mobile learning in large classrooms.
Before joining SDSU, Minjuan was a research coordinator for the Center for
Technology Innovations in Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She
was also a research and development consultant for Motorola University and
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc.
Dr. Li An
Professor of Geography
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-4493
Office: Geography Annex 111
Phone: (619) 594-5932
e-mail: lan@mail.sdsu.edu
Education
Ph.D. (Systems Modeling), Michigan State University, 2003
M.S. (Probability and Statistics), Michigan State University, 2002
M.S. (Systems Ecology), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1992
B.S. (Economic Geography), Beijing University, 1989
Courses Taught
Research Interests
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GIScience (e.g., GeoComputation and Spatial Analysis) and its link with landscape ecology
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Complexity theory and its applications in human-environment interactions
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Landscape ecology: concepts, methods, and applications in environmental and natural resource conservation and policy-making
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Methodology of quantitative modeling in land-use/cover, wildlife habitat, and biodiversity dynamics
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Population, development, and their environmental effects in relation to human health, natural disaster, and biodiversity dynamics, especially in developing countries
Current Projects
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SDSU UGP Grant: Sampling at What Scales? A Computational Simulation Approach, PI.
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NSF PIRE Collaborative Research and Training in Social Context, Population Processes, and Environmental Change, Co-PI.