Junhong Xiao is Emeritus Professor at the Open University of Shantou in China. His current research interests cover various aspects of open, distance and digital education. His international publications include a major contribution to the Springer Handbook of Open, Digital, and Distance Education, and many contemporary themes of online learning.
Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/1716725/c1e-owpjuv99mvf708dx-5r51zq0ph789-t5r3pd.mp3 | recorded March 2024
Junhong’s online profile: Junhong Xiao is Emeritus Professor at the Open University of Shantou (formerly known as Shantou Radio & Television University), a local branch of the Open University of China and a founding member of the Center for Open Education Research, the University of Oldenburg. He is Editor of the SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education series, and columnist for inspired, the newsletter of Open University Malaysia. He is on the editorial boards of various international journals, serves as peer reviewer for numerous high-impact journals (both English and Chinese), and provides consultancy in the areas of his expertise. His main research interest has been in various aspects of open, distance, and digital learning. For a complete list of his journal publications, please click https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5316-2957.
Junhong’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-junhongxiaob840955/
Junhong’s Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RetRgLsAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN&oi=ao
Nominated works (free to access):
- Xiao, J. (2024). Will Artificial Intelligence Enable Open Universities to Regain their Past Glory in the 21st Century?. Open Praxis, 16(1), 11–23. https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.16.1.618
- Xiao, J. (2023). Critiquing Sustainable Openness in Technology-Based Education from the Perspective of Cost-Effectiveness and Accessibility. Open Praxis, 15(3), 244–254. https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.569
- Xiao, J. (2023). Critical Issues in Open and Distance Education Research. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 24(2), 213–228. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v24i2.6881
- Peng, Y., & Xiao, J. (2022). Is the empirical research we have the research we can trust? A review of distance education journal publications in 2021. Asian Journal of Distance Education, 17(2). Retrieved from http://asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/659
- Xiao, J. (2022). Introduction to History, Theory, and Research in ODDE. In O. Olaf Zawacki-Richter & I. Jung. (Eds.), Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education (pp. 15-25). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0351-9_1-1
Nominated works (may require purchase):
- Xiao, J. (2024). Revisiting the Theory of Transactional Distance: Implications for Open, Distance, and Digital Education in the 21st Century. American Journal of Distance Education, https://doi.org/ 10.1080/08923647.2024.2303328
- Xiao, J. (2023). Michael Grahame Moore. In B. A. Geier. (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81037-5_172-1
- Xiao, J. (2019). Digital transformation in higher education: critiquing the five-year development plans (2016-2020) of 75 Chinese universities. Distance Education, 40(4), 515-533. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/01587919.2019.1680272
- Xiao, J. (2018). On the margins or at the center? Distance education in higher education. Distance Education, 39(2), 259-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2018.1429213
- Xiao, J. (2017). Learner-content interaction in distance education: The weakest link in interaction research. Distance Education, 38(1), 123-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2017.1298982