Lilly Lu

Associate Professor

email:

lillylu@unomaha.edu

office:

WFAB 210

office phone:

402.554.2479

fax:

402.544.3436

Additional Information

Biography

Dr. Lu received a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction specializing in Art Education with a M.A., in Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, Bloomington. She focuses her research on virtual environment (virtual worlds, mixed reality, and virtual reality), gaming (video games, game design, play/game pedagogy), gaming and digital visual cultures, and integrating new media/technology in art education and education.

Dr. Lu had been awarded many grants including two competitive research grants in 2007 and 2016 from the National Art Education Foundation, an affiliation of the National Art Education Association (NAEA). Dr. Lu was awarded a teaching grant ($20,000) from the 2015 Kelly Endowed Fund. She also led a UNO student team to develop and host the video game design summer camps for KANEKO in 2017 and 2018.

Dr. Lu’s work has been published in premier journals in Art Education as well as in Technology in Teacher Education.

Curriculum Vitae

Featured Projects & Research Interests

Projects:

• Creative Media & Visualization (CMAV) Lab

• HIVE | Highly Interactive Virtual Environments

Interests:

• Digital/new media arts and digital visual culture

• Mixed/augmented reality and virtual reality

• Gaming (video games, game design, and play/game pedagogy) and gaming culture

• Interactive virtual art and virtual world pedagogy

• Online learning and community of practice, and e-learning

• Integration of digital technology/media into art education and in teacher education

• Web 2.0 tools and social media

• Mobile technology and applications

Education

Ph.D., major in Curriculum & Instruction, specializing in Art Education; minor in Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, Bloomington

M.A., Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, Bloomington

B.A., Educational Media and Library Science, specializing in Instructional and Informational Design, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Grants Awarded

Game Design Camps for KANEKO ($11,685+) (2017- present)

2015 National Art Education Foundation (NAEF) Research Grant entitled “Empowering the Digital Generation through Creating Highly Interactive Virtual Environments (HIVEs),” ($8,250) (2015-2016)

2015-2016 Kelly Endowed Fund award for the project “Creating Blended Learning Environments for the Media Arts program” ($25,000) (2015-2017)

2008 Research Grant awarded by the National Art Education Foundation (NAEF), an affiliate of the National Art Education Association (NAEA)

For additional grants awarded for research and artistry, and venture grants (a total of $51,309) between 2006 and 2013, please see Curriculum Vitae

Scheduled Teaching & Office Hours

• Art 3370 Technology in Arts Education

• Art 4350/7350 Trends in Art Education

• Art 4000/8006 Special Studies in Art Education (3D Virtual Worlds and Videogames) Media Art

• Art 1220 Digital Media Foundations

• Art 3140 Computer-Generated Imagery I

• Art 3170 Digital Game Design

• Art 4180 Advanced Digital Game Design

• Art 4190 Game Design Studio

Office Hours
Tue./Thur. 1-2 p.m. and 5:15-6:16 p.m. or by appointment

Exhibitions

Rocks Tell Stories (Photography), School of Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (2013-2014)