Professor Junhong Xiao
Professor Junhong Xiao
Junhong Xiao
Emeritus Professor
The Open University of Shantou (Shantou Radio & Television University), China
Profile
Junhong Xiao is Professor at the Open University of Shantou (formerly known as Shantou Radio & Television University), a local branch of the Open University of China, Visiting Professor at the Open University of Guangdong, China, and founding member of COER. He has been teaching English at higher education institutions since 1983. From 2001 to 2002, Professor Junhong Xiao worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education and Language Studies, the UK Open University, funded by the China Scholarship Council. During his stay at the UKOU, he was attached to the course teams of Language and Literacy in a Changing World (a MA course) and English Grammar in Context (a BA course). In 2004, he was involved in developmental testing for another OU course - The Art of English.
In the first 20 years of his academic life, Professor Junhong Xiao published widely in the fields of English grammar, discourse analysis, pragmatics, systemic-functional grammar, and TESOL. Since 2001, his main research interest has been in various aspects of open and distance learning. His publications include nearly 300 academic papers (including translations) in dozens of journals and 10 books. For a complete list of his journal publications, please click https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5316-2957.
Professor Junhong Xiao is Co-Editor of the SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education series. He is on the editorial boards of several international journals, serves as peer reviewer for numerous high-impact journals (both English and Chinese), and provides consultancy in the areas of his expertise. He was Associate Editor of Distance Education (2014-2022), Guest Editor of the International Forum of Distance Education in China (2013-2022), and on the Editorial Board of System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (2014-2020).
Publications
Xiao, J. (2024). Will Artificial Intelligence Enable Open Universities to Regain their Past Glory in the 21st Century?. Open Praxis, 16(1), 11–23.DOI: https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.16.1.618
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,DOI: 10.1080/08923647.2024.2303328
Xiao, J. (2023). Digital transformation in top Chinese universities: An analysis of their 14th five-year development plans (2021-2025). Asian Journal of Distance Education, 18(2), 186-201. Retrieved from http://www.asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/757
Xiao, J. (2023). Critiquing Sustainable Openness in Technology-Based Education from the Perspective of Cost-Effectiveness and Accessibility. Open Praxis, 15(3), 244–254.DOI: ttps://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
Xiao, J. (2023). Michael Grahame Moore. In: Geier, B.A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81037-5_172-1
Xiao, J. (2022). Introduction to History, Theory, and Research in ODDE. In: Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0351-9_1-1
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. (2021). Decoding new normal in education for the post-COVID-19 world: Beyond the digital solution. Asian Journal of Distance Education, 16(1), 141-155. Retrieved from http://www.asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/558
Xiao, J. (2021). From Equality to Equity to Justice: Should Online Education Be the New Normal in Education?. In A. Bozkurt. (Ed.),Handbook of Research on Emerging Pedagogies for the Future of Education: Trauma-Informed, Care, and Pandemic Pedagogy (pp. 1-15). IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7275-7.ch001