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Maumee Valley Country Day School to Host Yong Zhao - Globalization & Education Speaker

Maumee Valley Country Day School is excited to announce that world-renowned educational speaker Yong Zhao will be speaking on campus on Tuesday, September 1, 2015, at 3:45pm in the Millennium Theater, 1715 S. Reynolds Rd., Toledo, OH, 43614. Yong Zhao’s presentation is free and open to the public.
Yong Zhao speaks around the world on educational issues, particularly on issues related to globalization and education, creativity, global
competitiveness, educational reforms, and educational technology. [1]

Yong Zhao currently serves as the Presidential Chair and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he is also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. He is also a professorial fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy, Victoria University. His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. He has published over 100 articles and 20 books. He is a recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association and was named one of the 2012 10 most influential people in educational technology by the Tech & Learn Magazine. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy for Education. His latest book World Class Learners has won several awards including the Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2013), Association of Education Publishers’ (AEP) Judges’ Award and Distinguished Achievement Award in Education Leadership (2013).

Zhao was born in China’s Sichuan Province. He received his B.A. in English Language Education from Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqing, China in 1986. After teaching English in China for six years, he came to Linfield College as a visiting scholar in 1992. He then began his graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. He received his A.M. in Education in 1994 and Ph.D. in 1996. He joined the faculty at MSU in 1996 after working as the Language Center Coordinator at Willamette University and a language specialist at Hamilton College. [2]

[1] Zhao, Yong. “About My Speeches.” Education in the Age of Globalization; zhaolearning.com.
[2] Zhao, Yong. “Biography.” Education in the Age of Globalization; zhaolearning.com.
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