Instructional Design · Health Sciences Education
I design Communities of Practice, scale faculty development, and advance the scholarship of teaching and learning — work built to be sustainable for the people doing it.
Jiaqi Yu, PhD · Assistant Director of Instructional Innovation and Project Management, UNT Health at Fort Worth
Signature Contributions
Communities of Practice for Health Sciences Education
I build sustainable Communities of Practice that translate clinical teaching into scholarship.
Five interconnected Communities of Practice engaging 150+ faculty and 20+ active SoTL projects at UNT Health. The hub-and-spoke model has produced two annual Unconferences, a POD Network–funded study, and a statewide award.
Explore →Project Management for Instructional Designers
I make the invisible work of instructional designers visible — across institutions and at scale.
More than a decade of cross-institutional collaboration through the Online Learning Consortium, EDUCAUSE / Penn State ID2ID, and the POD Network. Templates and artifacts openly shared and actively reused across the field.
Explore →Cross-Institutional Peer Mentoring & Scholarly Infrastructure
I co-design the structures—communities, networks, and scholarship—that support instructional designers across career stages.
Advisory Committee service on the EDUCAUSE / Penn State ID2ID Peer Mentoring Program (2024 & 2025). Co-author of the forthcoming Routledge chapter documenting the program's evolution to an international network.
Explore →Featured Projects
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Collective at UNT Health
Five interconnected Communities of Practice engaging 150+ faculty and 20+ active SoTL projects across health sciences education — a hub-and-spoke model designed to sustain scholarship without adding to faculty workload.
Read the case study →Project Management for Instructional Designers: A Multi-Institutional Collaborative
More than a decade of cross-institutional work — OLC panels, EDUCAUSE / Penn State ID2ID mentoring, HigherID Podcast Ep 13 (most-listened of its season) — building shared vocabulary, templates, and mentorship pathways for ID project leadership.
Read the case study →ID2ID: A Cross-Institutional Peer Mentoring Program for Instructional Designers
Service, scholarship, and network leadership inside a decade-old Community of Practice — Advisory Committee work, multi-cohort mentor and mentee participation, and co-authorship of the forthcoming Routledge chapter documenting the program.
Read the case study →About
Scholar-practitioner in higher education. First-generation college student, immigrant scholar, and working parent — perspectives that shape why I design for sustainable scholarship, why I build Communities of Practice rather than offer one-off workshops, and why care for the people doing the work is part of the work.
Read more about what guides my work →