Education
Learning Design and Technology, Ph.D., Purdue University
Executive Business Administration, MBA, New York Institute of Technology
Learning Design and Technology, MS Ed, Purdue University
Material Science and Engineering, BS, Purdue University
Material and Metallurgical Engineering, AA, National Taipei Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Republic of China
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Head, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Professor, Educational Psychology
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Provost Fellow, Office of the Provost
Honors & Awards
RESEARCH
2022 Health Innovation Professorship, Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2020 Dean’s Prize for Innovation and Collaboration, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To the establishment of “Identifying Depression through Early Awareness (IDEA) Women’s Health Coalition”.
2019 Journal Article Award, First Place in Mixed-Method Category. Division of Distance Learning. Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Oh, E. G., Huang, W., Mehdiabadi, A. H., & Ju, B. (2018). Facilitating critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions: The effects of peer-redirection vs. instructor-redirection. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 30, 489 – 509.
2019 Invited Research Proposal Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2017 Highly Cited Research Award by the Internet and Higher Education Journal ((Huang, W., Hood, D., & Yoo, S.J. (2013). Gender divide and acceptance of collaborative Web 2.0 applications for learning in higher education. The Internet and Higher Education, 16, 57 – 64.))
2016 Certificate of Appreciation for Exemplary Academic Services in Support of the Educational Technology Research & Development journal (peer-reviewed journal, SSCI)
2014 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Division of Distance Learning (DDL) Crystal Award: 3rd Place Winner - Prototyping the Virtual Experiments Mobile App (VEMA) for Developing College Freshman Students' Pre-Lab Chemistry Lab Skills
2014 AECT Division of Distance Learning (DDL) Journal Article Award: 2nd Place Winner – Quantitative Focused Article
2013 Invited Panel Chair, Undergraduate Research Symposium, UIUC
2013 AHRD Cutting Edge Research Award, 20th Annual AHRD International Research Conference in the Americas
2012 Dean’s External Funding Incentive Program for Assistant Professors Award, College of Education, UIUC
2012 Invited Panelist, “Gamifying learning? Is this a joke?”, 2012 AECT International Convention
2011 Selected Panel Reviewer, Informal Science Education Grant Program, National Science Foundation
2010 Hardie Conference Award, College of Education, UIUC
2008 Outstanding Paper Award, E-Learn 2008, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Las Vegas, NV.
2007 Research Symposium Grant Award sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) and Association for Educational and Communication Technology (AECT) Research and Theory Division, October 2007.
TEACHING
2021 Excellence in Online Teaching Award, College of Education, UIUC
2021 (Spring) Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students List. Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC
2018 (Fall) Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students List. Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC
2018 (Spring) Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students List. Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC
2017 Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students List. Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC
2017 Honorary James Scholar, Lifelong Teaching Award. College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2016 Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students List. Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC
2014 Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students List. Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC
2011 Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC
SERVICE
2020 Dean’s Prize for Innovation and Collaboration, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To the establishment of “Identifying Depression through Early Awareness (IDEA) Women’s Health Coalition”.
2014 Outstanding Reviewer Award. Educational Technology Research & Development (peer-reviewed journal, SSCI)
Recent Publications
Huang, W. D., & Huang, J. (2024). Gamification of Learning for Adult Learners. In J. E. Coryell, L. M. Baumgartner, & J. W. Bohonos (Eds.), Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning: Strategies for Enhancing Instruction and Instructor Effectiveness (pp. 285-303). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003446019-23
Huang, W. D., Loid, V., & Sung, J. S. (2024). Reflecting on gamified learning in medical education: a systematic literature review grounded in the Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy 2012—2022. BMC Medical Education, 24(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04955-1
Sung, J. S., & Huang, W. H. D. (2024). Motivational design for inclusive digital learning: Women college engineering students’ motivation for online STEM learning. Contemporary Educational Technology, 16(1), Article ep489. https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/14047
Tabb, K. M., Bentley, B., Pineros-Leano, M., Simonovich, S. D., Nidey, N., Ross, K., Huang, W.-H., & Huang, H. (2022). Home Visiting as an Equitable Intervention for Perinatal Depression: A Scoping Review. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, Article 826673. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.826673
Tabb, K. M., Hsieh, W. J., Sung, J. S., Hoang, T. M. H., Deichen Hansen, M. E., Lux, E., & Huang, W. H. D. (2022). Patient engagement to examine perceptions of perinatal depression screening with the capabilities, opportunities, motivation, and behaviors (COM-B) model. Frontiers in Health Services, 2, Article 845441. https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2022.845441