Former members of the Learning Futures Group, Drs. Tianhui Huang and Yizhou Fan, have both won the Dissertation Award at the Forum on Emprical Educational Research in China.

Dr. Huang’s dissertation investigates the mechanism of social interaction in MOOCs and its connection with instructional design. Dr. Fan’s dissertation examined learning strategies of MOOC learners using a data mining approach. Both of them visited the University of Minnesota as a visiting scholar.