I was born and grew up in Thai Nguyen Province - a mountainous Northeast region of Vietnam. Since childhood, I dreamt to follow in my mother's footsteps and becoming a teacher. I earned my bachelor's in English Linguistics and then an MA, also in English Linguistics at Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. I worked as a high school teacher for gifted students in my home country for more than 10 years before my academic adventure in the USA. 

I attended Bowling Green State University, OH as a TEA (Teaching Excellence and Achievement) scholar under the sponsorship of the Fulbright program in the Spring of 2014. Then I continued my M.Ed in Comparative and Global Education at Lehigh University, PA as a Fulbrighter under another sponsorship of the Fulbright program. Currently, I am in the final stage of my Ph.D. program in Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO with a plan to graduate by December 2022. 

As my background is strongly rooted in education, I am interested in developing methods, principles, and theories to optimize students' learning, especially learning with cutting-edge technologies in classrooms and online environments. 

I used mixed methods for my research, which includes learning analytics, content analysis, interviewers, tasks analysis, and more. 

Email: phamngocminhclc@gmail.com