Contributors

Anadolu University

Dr. Cengiz Hakan AYDIN is a Full Professor at the Distance Education Department of Anadolu University’s Open Education Faculty, where he studies designing and implementing open, flexible, qualit...

Svenja Bedenlier

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Svenja Bedenlier is an Assistant Professor of E-Learning in Higher and Adult Education at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). She obtained her PhD at Carl von Ossietzky ...

Melissa Bond

University of South Australia, Australia

Dr Melissa Bond is a Lecturer in Digital Technology Education at the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (University of South Australia) and is a member of the Center for Open Education Resea...

Aras Bozkurt

Anadolu University, Turkey

Aras Bozkurt is a researcher and faculty member in the Department of Distance Education, Open Education Faculty at Anadolu University, Turkey. He holds MA and PhD degrees in distance education. Dr. Bo...

Dianne Conrad

Athabasca University

Dr. Dianne Conrad is a long-time adult and Distance Educator with expertise in prior learning, assessment, and all aspects of open and online learning. Now retired from Athabasca University, she conti...

Insung Jung

Christian University in Tokyo, Japan

Insung Jung formerly was a Professor of International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. Her major books include Quality Assurance in ODE; Distance and Blended Learning in Asia; Quality Assurance a...

Yasar Kondakci

Middle East Technical Univeristy (METU) Ankara, Turkey

Yasar Kondakci is a Professor in Educational Administration at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. His research focuses on higher education, change, and development in educati...

Victoria I. Marín

University of Lleida, Spain

Victoria I. Marín is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Lleida (Spain) and a member of the research group COMPETECS at the same university. At the time of...

Paul Prinsloo

University of South Africa, South Africa

Paul Prinsloo is a Research Professor in Open and Distance Learning in the Department of Business Management at the University of South Africa. His research focuses on distance, distance and distribut...

Jennifer Roberts

University of South Africa, South Africa

Jennifer Roberts is an Associate Professor at the Open Distance Learning Research Unit in the College of Education at the University of South Africa. Her research publications focus on distance educat...

George Veletsianos

Royal Roads University, Canada

Dr. George Veletsianos is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology at Royal Roads University. His research focuses on three strands: (1) design, development, and evalu...

Junhong Xiao

Shantou Radio & Television University/Open University of Shantou, China

Junhong Xiao is a Professor at Shantou Radio & Television University/Open University of Shantou, China, International Editor of Distance Education in China (the Open University of China), Associat...

Olaf Zawacki-Richter

University of Oldenburg & Center for Open Education Research (COER), Germany

Olaf Zawacki-Richter is a Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences and Director of the Center for O...

Jingjing Zhang

Beijing Normal University, China

Jingjing Zhang is Professor of Educational Technology at Beijing Normal University, where she directs the Big Data Centre for Technology-mediated Education. Dr. Zhang’s current work focuses on d...