Bo Yang
Doctoral Student
Dept. of Applied IT, Division of Learning, Communication & ITAbout Bo Yang
Bo Yang is currently a PhD student at the Division of Learning, Communication & IT, Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Previously, he got a bachelor's degree in English education from Southwest University, China and a master's degree of mass communication with the specialisation in social media analytics from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before starting the phd career at University of Gothenburg, he first worked as a teacher in a high school in China and then as an assistant researcher in educational technology at Beijing Normal University, China.
Now, Bo's research interest stands within learning interaction, engagement and collaboration in large-scale online learning (such as MOOCs). He considers large-scale participation and mass collaboration to open up new possibilities for learning practices that is traditionally accommodated in small groups. He delves into the emerging technics, tools and platforms which potentially enhance the online learning interactivity among massive learners, from a multidisciplinary perspective of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). In the usual research, he uses web crawling, statistical analysis, and machine learning models to retrieve and process data and relies primarily on mixed methods including qualitative approaches like content analysis and quantitative methods like sentiment analysis, text mining/natural language processing and social network analysis. He is a big fan of data analysis and data visualisation using R.