Rate My Professor Eunsung Park

Eunsung Park, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Educational Technology in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction within the College of Education at Tennessee Technological University, a position she has held since 2022. She earned her Ph.D. in Learning, Design, and Technology from Pennsylvania State University in 2021, with a dissertation titled "Adaptive learning analytics dashboard and self-regulated learning support: A mixed-method case study of blended undergraduate finance course." Park also holds an M.Ed. in the same field from Penn State University (2014) and a B.S. in Computer Science Education (minor: Education) from Silla University in Busan, Korea (2002). Prior to her current role, she served as a Postdoctoral Researcher (2021–2022) and Instructor (2021–2022) at Texas Tech University’s Center for Innovation in eLearning. Her extensive experience at Penn State University spans 2013–2021 in various capacities, including Graduate Assistant/Researcher in Learning, Design, and Technology, Research Assistant at the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, Learning Designer for Penn State World Campus, and Research Assistant for World Campus Research & Development. Earlier, Park taught as a Secondary School Technology Instructor for eight years (2003–2010, 2012–2013) under South Korea’s Ministry of Education.

Park’s research centers on personalized learning in advanced technology learning environments, encompassing adaptive learning, learning analytics, virtual reality, gamification, instructional design, and computational thinking. Her scholarship includes peer-reviewed publications such as "Adaptive or adapted to: Sequence and reflexive thematic analysis to understand learners’ self-regulated learning in an adaptive learning analytics dashboard" (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023, with D. Ifenthaler); "Item-level monitoring, response style stability, and the hard-easy effect" (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021, with R. Clariana); "Promising educational technology meets complex system: A six-year case study of an adaptive learning project from initial exploration through the end of a pilot" (Journal of Formative Design in Learning, 2021, with A. Gregg et al.); "Theory to practice in instructional design" (Handbook of Distance Education, 2019, with R. Shearer); and "The Theory of Transactional Distance" (Open and Distance Education Theory Revisited, 2019, with R. Shearer). She has earned distinctions including LASER Institute Scholar (2023, North Carolina State University), AERA Division C Graduate Student Conference Fund (2021), AECT Graduate Student Dissertation and Research Award (2019), and multiple Graduate Student Travel Awards from Penn State University (2013–2020). Park contributes through university committees such as AI Force at Tennessee Tech University and as a reviewer for journals like Journal of Computer Assisted Learning and AERA annual meetings.