The core concern of Academy of Future Education (AoFE) is interdisciplinary research on education and management for the greater aim of promoting education reform and innovative teaching practices. Main research topics include: learning theories, teaching methods, systems of higher education institutions (governance, management, and language policies), reform and innovation in higher education.
Conducting cutting-edge leadership and education research:
Higher Education Management and Leadership
Child development and education
Inclusive education
Teacher Education
Educational Technology
Hexie management
Master Degree Programme:
Global Education
Child Development and Family Education
Digital Education
Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD):
Technology driven education innovation
AI and Education: Exploring the integration of artificial intelligence technologies in educational settings, focusing on enhancing teaching effectiveness, personalizing learning experiences, and assessing student performance through intelligent systems.
Eye Tracking in Education: Investigating the use of eye-tracking technology to gain insights into students’ visual attention and cognitive processes during learning activities, with the aim of optimizing instructional designs and improving learning outcomes.
Digital Game-Based Learning: Studying the application of digital games as a medium for education, examining how game mechanics and elements can be used to motivate learners, facilitate knowledge acquisition, and develop problem-solving skills.
Metaverse in Education: Exploring the potential of the metaverse, a virtual world that mirrors the real world, for creating immersive and interactive educational environments that can enhance student engagement, collaboration, and learning experiences.
STEM Education: Researching the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in educational curricula, aiming to cultivate students’ scientific literacy, technological competence, engineering design capabilities, and mathematical thinking.
Computational Thinking: Investigating the development and promotion of computational thinking skills, which involve problem-solving, logical reasoning, and algorithmic thinking, in order to equip students with the abilities necessary for the digital age.
Human-Computer Interaction in Education: Studying the interaction between humans and computers in educational contexts, focusing on designing user-friendly interfaces, improving usability, and enhancing the overall learning experience through technology.
Research on future universities
Devising new models for higher education: AoFE conducts research on fundamentals and overall goals, operational mechanisms, and the challenges faced by contemporary higher education institutions.
Research on the development of Chinese higher education: investigating problems and challenges for the reform of Chinese higher education; devising strategies for reform and promoting the deepening reform of universities.
Student-centred education systems: discovering and summarising paths and methods for student-centred education systems through observation and application.
Chinese education management research
To find methods for the management of universities as knowledge organisations, in particular, research on networking organisations.
Research on education leadership: focusing on the problems and difficulties for improving leadership, and how good leadership promotes the reform and the transformation of both Chinese and international higher education.
Discovering paths and modes of Chinese higher education reform by researching systemic innovations.
Research on internalisation in higher education
AoFE conducts research in the following areas in cooperation with the Internalization Research Center of the Chinese Ministry of Education:
Research on theories of higher education internalisation and transnational universities: in-depth scientific research on the essence, influencing factors, and effects of higher education internalisation.
Summarising and promoting patterns for university internalisation: best practices for higher education internalisation both in China generally, in model zones, and abroad.
Policies and suggestions on Chinese higher education internalisation: promoting higher education internalisation of local governments and universities based on problems and needs nationwide
Language policies in global education: studying university language policies in the context of internalisation, in particular – the regulations and practices of teaching in non-mother tongue languages.
The core concern of Academy of Future Education (AoFE) is interdisciplinary research on education and management for the greater aim of promoting education reform and innovative teaching practices. Main research topics include: learning theories, teaching methods, systems of higher education institutions (governance, management, and language policies), reform and innovation in higher education.
Conducting cutting-edge leadership and education research:
Master Degree Programme:
Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD):
Technology driven education innovation
Research on future universities
Chinese education management research
Research on internalisation in higher education
AoFE conducts research in the following areas in cooperation with the Internalization Research Center of the Chinese Ministry of Education:
Doctor of Education(EdD)