Dr. Jou received his B.S and M.S from University of Missouri-Rolla and Ph.D. in 1994 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He joined the faculty of National United University in 1995 as an Associate Professor, and was appointed as a departmental director from 1997-2000. He returned to Taipei city in 2001 as a faculty member of National Taiwan Normal University. Dr. Jou received the Distinguished Professor award in 2013, and was appointed by the National Science Council (Taiwan) in 2009-2012 to serve as an executive board member in the Discipline of Applied Science Education. In 2014, he embarked on a journey to serve as a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota's Department of Educational Psychology.

Dr. Jou authored four technical books as well as over 50 research papers, of which 40 were published on SCI and SSCI journals, with subjects covering diverse areas such as development of ubiquitous/mobile learning systems, teaching strategies and course designs, critical thinking and creative learning and teaching, material processing technology, and CAE. In addition, he served as a reviewer in numerous SSCI and SCI indexed journals for many years. Dr. Jou is currently an Associate Editor of the Computers in Human Behavior (SSCI), an editorial board member of the International Journal of Electronic Democracy (Inderscience Publishers), International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications, and The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.