Dr. Jade Jue Wang-Szilas is a researcher in distance education and digital language learning with two decades of experience in online course design, technology-enhanced learning, and intercultural pedagogy. She is Associate Researcher at the University of Geneva and at PLIDAM (INALCO, Paris), and Senior Adviser in Technology-Enhanced Learning at the University of Geneva’s Centre for Continuing and Distance Education (CFCD). Her research focuses on computer-assisted language learning (CALL), multilingual course design, intercultural pedagogy, multimodality, and the integration of AI in education, with particular emphasis on teacher training, digital competencies, and cross-cultural collaboration.

She has co-initiated and coordinated several internationally recognised initiatives, including the Chinese–French eTandem Programme, a pioneering telecollaboration connecting learners in Switzerland, France, and China; the Kit de contact en langues orientales: chinois (INALCO), the first introductory Chinese MOOC for French speakers; Initiation to the Dongba Script (University of Geneva, INALCO, BLCU), a MOOC dedicated to safeguarding an endangered script; and Didactique du FLE dans une perspective francophone (University of Geneva, OIF), a professional development MOOC for French teachers worldwide.