Meet the Authors

Joe Backman

Alpine School District

Dr. Joe Backman, Curriculum Director of Professional Learning and Elementary Mathematics for Alpine School District (largest in Utah) has led out on professional learning in all 62 elementary schools ...

TJ Bliss

Idaho State Board of Education

TJ Bliss is a change-maker in higher education. He focuses on making change with people by building strong relationships of trust, and has proven track records in education leadership, philanthropy, f...

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...

Anuoluwapo (Anu) Brahim

University of Tampa, Florida

Anu is an Instructional Designer (MS. Instructional Design & Tech) currently working in the healthcare sector. Her career background is in education and training. Her inspiration for course design is ...

Mark Brown

Dublin City University

Professor Mark Brown is Ireland's first Chair in Digital Learning and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL). He has over 30-years of experience working in the area of blended,...

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

Elon University

I study educators’ self-directed professional learning experiences via social media and have published on educators’ uses of Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and Reddit. I have multiple research pro...

Cheryl Cuiller Casey

University of Arizona

Cheryl (Cuillier) Casey is the Open Education Librarian at the University of Arizona, where she has led course material affordability initiatives since 2014. She is involved nationally in open educati...

Catherine Cronin

Independent scholar

Dr. Catherine Cronin is an independent scholar whose work focuses on critical and social justice approaches in digital, open, and higher education....

Monalisa Dash

Brajrajnagar College

Darren Edgar Draper

Alpine School District

A fierce and faithful proponent of the effective use of technology in schools, Dr. Darren E. Draper is a CoSN Certified Education Technology Leader who currently serves as the Director of Innovative L...

Mandi Goodsett

Cleveland State University

Mandi Goodsett (she/her) is the Performing Arts & Humanities Librarian, as well as the Open Educational Resource & Copyright Advisor, at Cleveland State University. She serves as an OhioLINK A...

Charles R. Graham

Brigham Young University

Charles R. Graham is a Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University. He studies the design and evaluation of online and blended learning environments as well as the...

Leo Havemann

University College London / The Open University

Leo Havemann is a higher, digital, open education practice and policy specialist and researcher. He works with colleagues across the disciplines to develop and enhance programmes at UCL, while working...

Clark J. Hickman

University of Missouri-St. Louis

I earned a doctorate in education psychology from the University of Missouri in 1993. I retired as Associate Dean and Associate Research Professor of the College of Education at the University of Miss...

Charles B. Hodges

Georgia Southern University

Charles B. Hodges, Ph.D. is a Professor of Instructional Technology at Georgia Southern University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Instructional Technology and Design program at Virginia Tech, as well ...

Jeanne K. Hoover

East Carolina University

Jeanne Hoover is Head of Scholarly Communication at Academic Library Services at East Carolina University. She leads the Scholarly Communication team in supporting faculty and student scholarly commun...

Scott L. Howell

Brigham Young University

Scott L. Howell is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Brigham Young University. He has previously served as the Director of the Salt Lake Center and the Director of Evening Classes at BYU....

Shironica P. Karunanayaka

Royce Kimmons

Brigham Young University

Royce Kimmons is an Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University where he studies digital participation divides specifically in the realms of social media...

Suzan Koseoglu

University of Greenwich

Dr. Suzan Koseoglu is a Lecturer in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at the University of Greenwich (UK). Suzan's research and writing focuses on feminist pedagogy, critical pedagogy and open...

Daniel G. Krutka

University of North Texas

Daniel G. Krutka, Ph.D. is a human and citizen whose job is Associate Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of North Texas. He researches intersections of technology, democracy, and ...

Paula Marcelle

Indiana University, Bloomington

Paula Marcelle is an emerging scholar and practitioner. She is an instructional designer and adjunct faculty teaching courses in the design of instructional materials, and foundational science. Her re...

Claire McAvinia

Punya Mishra

Arizona State University

Dr. Punya Mishra is associate dean of scholarship & innovation and professor in the Division of Educational Leadership & Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to ASU, Dr. Mishra ...

Stephanie L. Moore

University of New Mexico

Stephanie Moore, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computing in Higher Educ...

Angelica Pazurek

University of Minnesota

Dr. Angel Pazurek is a Senior Lecturer in Learning Technologies at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarship focuses on critical digital pedagogy and learning design in adult and higher education. ...

Kenneth J. Plummer

Brigham Young University

Ken Plummer, PhD, is a Teaching & Learning Consultant at Brigham Young University. He has published numerous articles on assessment, course design, and Decision Based Learning. He has been invited...

Michelle F. Read

Texas State University

Michelle F. Read is a Senior Instructional Designer at Texas State University where she also develops and delivers faculty professional development on online teaching and learning topics. She complete...

Stephanie Robertson

Brigham Young University - Hawaii

Stephanie Robertson is an Outreach Librarian and Assistant Professor at BYU–Hawaii. Her MA is in English with an emphasis in Composition & Rhetoric and her MLISc is in Academic Librarianship...

Atikah Shemshack

Legacy Traditional Schools

Dr. Atikah Shemshack serves Legacy Traditional Schools as the Kelley Elementary campus principal in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Shemshack is focused on cultivating a diverse and inclusive school community...

Cecil R. Short

Emporia State University

Cecil R. Short is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Emporia State University. His research focuses on Personalized Learning, Blended Teaching, Open Educational Resources (OER), and OER-...

Richard H. Swan

Brigham Young University

Richard H. Swan currently serves as an Associate Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning at Brigham Young University. He has worked in the field of educational development and instructional...

Torrey Trust

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Torrey Trust, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Learning Technology in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amhers...

Sara H. Tuiloma

Brigham Young University

Sara Tuiloma is a doctoral student in the Instructional Psychology and Technology department at Brigham Young University. The focus of her studies is student engagement in online and blended learning ...

Melissa Warr

New Mexico State University

Dr. Melissa Warr is an Assistant Professor of Learning Design and Technology at New Mexico State University. Her research blends teacher education, design, creativity, and technology to explore how de...

Michael Whitchurch

Brigham Young University

Michael Whitchurch is the OER and Media Literacy Librarian at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library. He received his MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where hi...