Dr. Jiyae Bong is an assistant professor of Educational Technology in the Department of Education at Concordia University. Bong’s research focuses on (a) assessing networked learning in informal online learning contexts including social media and open learning platforms and (b) exploring technology-integrated intervention design and implementation. Bong organized the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) conference as a chair in 2022 and served as a board associate in the Design and Development division of the Association for Educational Communication and Technology (AECT) in 2015. She received the NSF/AECT Early Career Award in 2019; PacificCorp Design and Development Award (currently Design and Development Competition) from the AECT in 2014; and the Excellence in Online Mentoring Award from Floria State University in 2015.