Dr Ming Nie

Research Associate in E-learning and SCORE Fellow

Dr Nie joined Beyond Distance Research Alliance on 10 July 2006. She is currently working as the Research Associate to a Higher Education Academy funded research project called IMPALA (Informal Mobile Podcasting And Learning Adaptation). IMPALA looks into students' learning experiences through Podcasting and how the beneficial effects can be enhanced.

Previously, she was a PhD student at Middlesex University, London, gaining her PhD in March 2006. Her PhD research looks into the impact of culture on Distance Learning, which investigates how students from different cultural backgrounds learn differently through a distance learning programme delivered by a UK university.

Dr Nie was originally from Beijing, China. Before she came to the UK, she worked as a customer service engineer for an IT company in Shenzhen, China for several years. She gained her first degree in Science from Beijing Polytechnic University in 1994

Contact Details
Direct line: + 44 (0) 116 252 3740
Fax: + 44 (0) 116 252 5275
ming.nie@leicester.ac.uk