Learning in the Age of AI

Publications

Yong Zhao has published nearly 200 journal articles and book chapters, as well as over 40 scholarly books, many of which have been translated in different languages.  Refer to his vita to for a complete list of his publications.  Here are a few of his most recent publications:

Recent Books

Zhao, Y. (2025). Fix the Past or Invent the Future: Moving Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Education. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

McDiarmid, G. W., Beghetto, R. A. & Zhao, Y. (2025). Agents of Impact: How Education Can Empower Students to Change Themselves, Their Communities, and Their World. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree.

Watterston, J. & Zhao, Y. (2024). Focused: Understanding, Negotiating, and Maximizing Your Influence as a School Leader. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Ginsberg, R. & Zhao, Y. (2023). Duck and Cover: Confronting and Correcting Dubious Practices in Education. New York: Teachers College Press.

McDiarmid, G. W. & Zhao, Y. (2023). Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree

Zhao, Y. & Wehmeyer, M. (2023). Chinese Translation of Educating the Self-Determined Learners. Beijing, Zhanglu.

McDiarmid, G. W. & Zhao, Y. (2022). Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students in a Rapidly Evolving World. New York: Routledge.

Zhao, Y. (2021). Learners without Borders. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners (with M. Wehmeyer), 2020, Arlington, VA: ASCD.

Recent Articles

  1. Zhao, Y., Kingston, N. & Ginsberg, R. (2025). The Death and Rebirth of Research in Education in the Age of AI: Problems and Promises. ECNU Review of Education (OnlineFirst). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/20965311251367053
  2. Zhao, Y. & Zhong, R. (2025). From Meritocracy to Human Interdependence: Redefining the Purpose of Education. ECNU Review of Education, 8(2). Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20965311251351988.
  3. Zhong, R. & Zhao, Y. (2025). Education Paradigm Shifts in the Age of AI: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Learning. ECNU Review of Education, 8(2). Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20965311251315204.
  4. Zhao, Y. & R. Zhong (2024). Paradigm Shifts in Education: An Ecological Analysis. ECNU Review of Education, 8(2). Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20965311241296162
  5. Zhao, Y. (2024). Artificial Intelligence and Education: End the Grammar of Schooling. ECNU Review of Education, 8(2). Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20965311241265124
  6. Zhao, Y. & Beghetto, R. A. Effects and Side Effects: What Is Missing in Education Research. Review of Research in Education, 48: vii-xxviii.
  7. Zhao, Y., Lai, C., and Zhong, R. (2024). Shijie Jiaoyu de Zhouxiang. (Directions of Education in the World). Huadong Shifang Daxue Xuebao (Academic Journal of East China Normal University). 7(2024). 1-10.
  8. Zhao, Y. (2024). AI Shidai de Jiaoyu yu Pingjia (Education and Assessment in the Age of AI). Zhongguo Kaoshi (Journal of China Examinations), 3(2024), 1-7.
  9. Zhao, Y. (2023). Learning for uncertainty: reach for greatness. Educational Research for Policy and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10671-023-09358-z.
  10. Williamson McDiarmid and Yong Zhao (2023). Time to Rethink: Educating for a Technology-Transformed World. ECNU Review of Education, 6(2), 189-214.

More about Yong Zhao

Dr. Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. He previously served as the Presidential Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he was also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. Prior to Oregon, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. Additionally, he worked as a professor of educational leadership in the Faculty of Education at University of Melbourne and senior researcher at the Mitchell Institute of Victoria University in Australia. He was a visiting Global Professor at University of Bath and a visiting scholar at Warwick University in the UK.

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