Dr. Baiyun Chen is a Senior Instructional Designer at the Center for Distributed Learning at the University of Central Florida. She leads the Personalized Adaptive Learning team, facilitates faculty professional development programs, and teaches graduate courses on Instructional Systems Design. Her team works in close collaboration with teaching faculty members to design and develop adaptive learning courses by utilizing digital courseware to personalize instruction that maximizes student learning. Her research interests focus on using instructional strategies in online and blended teaching in the STEM disciplines, professional development for teaching online, and application of adaptive technologies in education. On related topics of online instruction, she has published peer-reviewed journal articles, editorial-reviewed articles, and book chapters, and delivered presentations at international and local conferences and events since 2006. She had served as the Co-Managing Editor of the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository in 2010-2018. In 2016 and 2017, Dr. Chen co-facilitated BlendKit, a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on Becoming a Blended Learning Designer. As an Online Learning Consortium Institute faculty, she designed, developed and taught the Blended Learning Mastery Series: Research into Practice in 2016-2020.
Work
Team Lead: Personalized Adaptive Learning/Senior Instructional Designer, Center for Distributed Learning, University of Central Florida (2017 - Present)
- Lead the overall functioning of the personalized adaptive learning (PAL) initiative
- Design and facilitate faculty professional development programs
- Served as the Co-Managing Editor of the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (2010-2018)
- Designed and facilitated faculty professional development programs
- Served as the Co-Managing Editor of the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (2010-2018)
- Co-taught IDL6543 Interactive Distributed Learning for Technology-Mediated Course Delivery
- Provided faculty consultations on online course design and delivery
- EME6062 Research in Instructional Technology
- EME6613 Instructional System Design
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, 2007, Instructional System Design
- Graduate Certificate of Data Mining, University of Central Florida, 2011, Statistics and Actuarial Science
- Master of Arts, Shanghai International Studies University, 2002, English Language & Literature
- Bachelor of Arts, Shanghai International Studies University, 1999, English Language & Literature
Minor in International Finance
Certificates
- Applying the Quality Matters Rubric, 2024