Youngjin Lee
University of North Texas
Learning Technologies
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Education

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.
Major: Education
Degree Specialization: Educational Computing
MEd, Seoul National University, 1996.
Major: Science Education
BS, Seoul National University, 1994.
Major: Earth Science

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Associate Professor, University of North Texas. (August 2019 – Present).
Associate Professor, University of Kansas. (July 2013 – August 2019).
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas. (July 2007 – July 2013).
Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (August 2005 – July 2007).
Senior Research Programmer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications. (January 2004 – August 2005).
Professional
Research Scientist, Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute. (December 1995 – February 1999).

Professional Memberships

Association for Computing Machineary. (2019 – Present).

International Educational Data Mining Society. (2014 – Present).

American Educational Research Associations. (2007 – Present).

Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (2007 – Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
LTEC 3260, Web Authoring, 1 course.
LTEC 5310, Human Computer Interaction, 1 course.
LTEC 5420, Web Authoring, 1 course.
LTEC 5421, Advanced Web and Media Development, 2 courses.
LTEC 5510, Technology Based Learning Environments, 2 courses.
LTEC 5610, Analysis of Research in Learning Technologies, 6 courses.
LTEC 6480, Research Seminar, 1 course.
LTEC 6500, Introduction to Quantitative Research in Learning Technologies, 1 course.
LTEC 6510, Introduction to Research in Learning Technologies, 2 courses.
LTEC 6511, Analysis of Research in Learning Technologies, 3 courses.
LTEC 6514, Seminar on Advanced Research Topics in Learning Technologies and Information Sciences, 7 courses.
LTEC 6800, Special Topics in Learning Technologies, 3 courses.
LTEC 6900, Special Problems in Learning Technologies, 1 course.
LTEC 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 14 courses.

Teaching at Other Institutions

University of Kansas, Constructivist Learning Technology, ELPS 811, Spring 2019.

Univeristy of Kansas, Dissertation Seminar, ELPS 896, Spring 2019.

University of Kansas, Instructional Media Development, ELPS 712, Fall 2018.

University of Kansas, Interactive Courseware Development, ELPS 998, Fall 2018.

University of Kansas, Constructivist Learning Technology, ELPS 811, Spring 2018.

University of Kansas, Instructional Media Development, ELPS 712, Fall 2017.

University of Kansas, Interactive Courseware Development, ELPS 998, Fall 2017.

University of Kansas, Constructivist Learning Technology, ELPS 811, Summer 2017.

University of Kansas, Constructivist Learning Technology, ELPS 811, Spring 2017.

University of Kansas, Educational Technology for Elementary/Middle Education, ELPS 301, Spring 2017.

University of Kansas, Educational Technology for Elemetary/Middle Education, ELPS 301, Fall 2016.

University of Kansas, Instructional Media Development, ELPS 712, Fall 2016.

University of Kansas, Constructivist Learning Technology, ELPS 811, Summer 2016.

University of Kansas, Constructivist Learning Technology, ELPS 811, Spring 2016.

University of Kansas, Educational Technology for Elementary/Middle Education, ELPS 301, Spring 2016.

University of Kansas, Educational Media Development, ELPS 810, Fall 2015.

University of Kansas, Educational Technology for Elementary/Middle Education, ELPS 301, Fall 2015.

University of Kansas, Educational Media Development, ELPS 810, Fall 2014.

University of Kansas, Educational Technology for Elementary/Middle Education, ELPS 301, Fall 2014.

University of Kansas, Educational Media Development, ELPS 810, Summer 2014.

University of Kansas, Constructivist Learning Technology, ELPS 811, Spring 2014.

University of Kansas, Educational Technology for Elementary/Middle Education, ELPS 301, Spring 2014.

University of Kansas, Educational Technology for Elementary/Middle Education, ELPS 301, Fall 2013.

University of Kansas, Educational Media Development, ELPS 810, Spring 2013.

University of Kansas, Educational Technology for Middle/Secondary Education, ELPS 302, Spring 2013.

Directed Student Learning

Major Professor, Learning Technologies. (September 2023 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Learning Technologies. (July 2023 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Learning Technologies. (July 2023 – Present).

Major Professor, Learning Technologies. (July 2023 – Present).

Major Professor, Learning Technologies. (July 2023 – Present).

Major Professor, Learning Technologies. (July 2023 – Present).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Learning Technologies. (October 2022 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Learning Technologies. (November 2021 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Learning Technologies. (2021 – Present).

Major Professor, Learning Technologies. (August 2020 – Present).

Major Professor, Learning Technologies. (February 2022 – September 2023).

Major Professor, Learning Technologies. (February 2020 – August 2023).

Dissertation Committee Member, Learning Technologies. (September 2021 – May 2023).

Major Professor, Learning Technologies. (January 9, 2020 – May 2022).

Major Professor, Learning Technologies. (November 2019 – December 2021).

Dissertation Committee Chair, Learning Technologies. (2019 – August 2020).

Dissertation Committee Member, Learning Technologies. (January 2020 – July 2020).

Dissertation Committee Member, Learning Technologies. (2019 – March 2020).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter
Hsu, Y., Meyen, E., Lee, Y. (2018). Understanding emotional analytics for student engagement: An instructional visual design perspective. Student-centered virtual learning environments in higher education. 70-102. Hershey, PA:.
Journal Article
Goodman, A., Lee, Y., Elieson, S., Knezek, G. (2024). Using self-regulated learning theory and learning analytics to identify explanatory variables affecting learning outcomes in online/hybrid undergraduate calculus. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching. 42(2), 125-154. Waynesville, NC: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Lee, Y. (2023). The effect of course format change on learning behaviors and performance of students. International Journal on E-Learning. 22(2), 159-176. Waynesville, NC: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Lee, Y. (2022). Identifying prerequisite courses in undergraduate biology using machine learning. Journal of Data Science. (1-16), 1–16.
Wang, X., Lee, Y., Lin, L., Mi, Y., Yang, T. (2021). Analyzing instructional design quality and students’ reviews of 18 courses out of the Class Central Top 20 MOOCs through systematic and sentiment analyses. The Internet and Higher Education. 50, 100810.
A, L., Lee, Y. (2020). College students' perception of pleasure in learning: Designing gameful educational gamification. International Journal on E-Learning. 19(2), 93–123.
Lee, Y. (2019). Estimating student ability and problem difficulty using Item Response Theory (IRT) and TrueSkill. Information Discovery and Delivery. 47(2), 67-75.
Gu, P., Lee, Y. (2019). Promoting students' motivation and use of SRL strategies in the Web-based mathematics learning environment. Journal of Educational Technology Systems. 47(3), 391-410.
Lee, Y. (2018). Effect of uninterrupted time-on-task on students’ success in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Computers in Human Behavior. 86, 174-180.
Lee, Y. (2018). Using Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and clustering to investigate problem solving patterns in the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): An exploratory study. Journal of Educational Computing Research. 57(2), 471-490.
Lee, Y. (2017). Modeling students’ problem solving performance in the computer-based mathematics learning environment. International Journal of Information and Learning Technology. 34(5), 385-395.
Sullivan, D. K., Goetz, J. R., Gibson, C. A., Mayo, M. S., Washburn, R. A., Lee, Y., Ptomey, L. T., Donnelly, J. E., (2016). A virtual reality intervention (Second Life) to improve weight maintenance: Rationale and design for an 18-month randomized trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 46, 77–84.
Lee, Y. (2016). Predicting students' problem solving performance using Support Vector Machine. Journal of Data Science. 14, 231–244.
Lee, Y. (2015). Analyzing log files to predict students’ problem solving performance in a computer-based physics tutor. Educational Technology & Society. 18(2), 225–236.
Lee, Y. (2015). Developing iPad-based physics simulations that can help people learn Newtonian physics concepts. The Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching. 34(3), 299–325.

Presentations Given

Oral Presentation

Lee, Y. (Author & Presenter), Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Meeting, TrueSkill: An online machine learning algorithm that can efficiently estimate student ability in MOOCs, United States of America. (2019).

Lee, Y. (Author & Presenter), American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, An investigation on the learning behaviors of students enrolled in a large-scale MOOC, United States of America. (2017).

A, G. (Author & Presenter), Lee, Y. (Author), American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Consequential factors in education gamification: An instrument for studying pleasurability in learning, United States of America. (2017).

Lee, Y. (Author & Presenter), Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Meeting, Clustering MOOC students using Self-Organizing Map (SOM), United States of America. (2017).

Gu, P. (Author & Presenter), Lee, Y. (Author), Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Meeting, Promoting students’ motivation and use of SRL strategies in online mathematics learning, United States of America. (2017).

Lee, Y. (Author & Presenter), American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Estimating students’ problem solving performance in a Web-based learning environment: A data mining approach, United States of America. (2016).

Hsu, K. (Author & Presenter), Lee, Y. (Author), Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Meeting, Social gamification of e-learning for science education outreach, United States of America. (2016).

Lee, Y. (Author & Presenter), Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Meeting, Understanding student learning in MOOC: A data mining approach, United States of America. (2016).

Lee, Y. (Author & Presenter), Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Meeting, Developing an automated data collec- tion mechanism in Second Life, United States of America. (2015).

Hsu, K. (Author & Presenter), Lee, Y. (Author), E-Learn, Social gamification in multimedia instruction to advance glacier science for students grades K-4, United States of America. (2015).

Awards and Honors

Leading Light Award, University of Kansas. (2013 – Present).

MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics Research Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2006 – Present).

MIT Physics Department Research Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2005 – Present).

Conference Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (2003 – Present).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Scholarship & Awards Committee. (2022 – Present).

Member, Learning Analytics Working Group. (February 2021 – Present).

Member, Data Science Innovation Lab Working Group. (January 2021 – Present).

Committee Member, Executive Committee. (April 2021 – 2024).

Chairperson, Graduate Curriculum Committee. (August 2020 – 2023).

Committee Member, Search committee: Open rank faculty position. (August 2022 – 2022).

Committee Member, Data Analyst Search Committee. (April 2021 – 2022).

Committee Member, Residential Doctoral Student Recruitment/Retention Committee. (January 2021 – 2022).

Committee Member, Personal Affairs Committee and RPTC. (September 2019 – 2021).

Committee Member, Scholarship & Awards Committee. (September 2019 – August 2020).

Program Coordinator, Educational Technology MSE Program. (2017 – August 2019).

Chairperson, Personnel Committee. (September 2016 – August 2019).

Committee Member, Teacher Education Committee. (September 2015 – August 2019).

Member, Research Computing Liaison. (January 2013 – August 2019).

Chairperson, Shorelight Master's Accelerator Program Committee. (September 2015 – August 2018).

Committee Member, Technology Committee. (September 2012 – August 2017).

Committee Member, Classroom Design Group. (2015 – 2016).

Member, eLearning Design Lab. (January 2013 – December 2016).

Chairperson, Educational Technology Lecturer Search Committee. (September 2014 – January 2015).

Committee Member, Undergraduate Committee. (2009 – 2014).

Professional Service

Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Nicosia. (February 2024 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. (2017 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Educational Technology & Society. (2014 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Educational Psychology. (2012 – Present).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, American Educational Research Association. (2011 – Present).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (2011 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. (2011 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Computers & Education. (2010 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Educational Computing Research. (2009 – Present).

Committee Member, 13th International Conference on Educational Data Mining Programm Committee. (2019 – 2020).

Committee Member, 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining Program Committee. (2017).

Committee Member, 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining Program Committee. (2016).

Consulting

Academic, University of Georgia, United States of America. (August 2018 – July 2019).

Awards and Honors

Bob Frederick Faculty Award, University of Kansas. (2012 – Present).