Besides managing the UC Riverside learning management system, he is also a consultant for the UCR campus re-accreditation process with experience in evaluating learning goals, outcomes and assessment with a particular interest in the development of rubrics to assess the effectiveness of learning goals. Working with other team members, he has helped to develop individual departmental approaches to assessing student-learning outcomes as they relate to departmental learning goals.

With additional interests in educational psychology and classroom ecology, he has been instrumental in developing classroom environments (Hyperstruction Studio and Flex classroom designs) that encourage greater student engagement and active participation especially in large lecture venues. Recently, an important area of interest has been evaluating effective ways to increase peer-to-peer collaboration via social media and the impact of mobile computing on the learning environment.

Ming Yang obtained his Ph.D in 1998 in Educational Administration with emphasis on Instructional Design and educational Technology.  His doctoral dissertation combines qualitative research with quantitative research methodologies and his research area covers inter-disciplinary studies of educational technology and administration. In 1988, He earned his MA in applied linguistics and BS degree in 1982 in technology and engineering.

He has been working in the Higher Educational field for about 30 years. He had been working in several universities in mainland China including Henan University of Science and Technology; Central China University of Science and Technology, and Shanghai University of Science and Technology as a researcher, an administrator, and an assistant professor. There, he published very well at some major publications nationally in the area of educational research.

Since 1992, Ming Yang has been working in the educational technology field in six US universities include University of Missouri, Kansas City, Oberlin College, Kenyon College, and University of California. His expertise includes distance learning, multimedia technology, technical writing and authoring, faculty technical training, instructional design, and technology implementation.

Currently at UCR, Dr. Ming Yang remains active in his instructional technology role by giving seminars/forums as appropriate and collaborating with departments, library and faculty. He is also active outside of campus in instructional technology. Ha has been a member of TechEd, EDCAUSE, and UCCSC. As co-chair of the Web 2.0 technical forum, Ming Yang brings new perspective to the campus.

Dr. Ming Yang has been teaching in Higher Education for many years. He had taught in universities in China for about 10 years before he came to US. Since 1999, Dr. Ming Yang has been teaching in University of Phoenix as a doctoral faculty for some main courses of informational technology, programming, as well as database management.