Yihua Zhang

Yihua is interested in understanding and improving students’ learning experiences in online and blended learning environments in engineering education through the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework as theoretical base. To achieve this aim, Yihua has undertaken a comprehensive literature review encompassing the implementation of the CoI framework in engineering education research and examined students’ learning experience in hybrid and online labs through the lens of CoI. In the future, Yihua is attempting to address some of the shortcomings of the CoI framework by broadening her research scope to include a wider array of theoretical frameworks to understand collaborative learning in online environments.