Jingjing Zhang

Jingjing Zhang directs the Big Data Centre for Technology-mediated Education at the Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University (BNU), China. Jingjing received her BSc in Computer Science from BNU, an MRes from University College London (UCL), an MSc and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. At Oxford, she was a Clarendon scholar and an HCR committee member of Brasenose College (funded by the ORS scholarship). Before joining the Faculty of Education at BNU, Dr. Zhang was trained at the OECD in Paris, followed by an internship at the UN headquarters in New York. Her research has been cross-disciplinary and spanned the fields of psychology, sociology, computer science and statistics. Dr. Zhang’s current work focuses on developing data mining techniques (e.g. social network analysis) to explore human relationships and activities online, particularly in the learning sciences. This includes the impact on learning and collaboration in using open educational resources (OERs), massive open online courses (MOOCs), and knowledge visualization.