Author Biographies

Nikoletta Agonács
Nikoletta Agonács holds a bachelor’s degree in Romanesque Philology, specialised in Italian and with a minor in English studies; a master’s degree in Foreign Language Teaching (Italian and Hungar...
Shlomo Back
Shlomo Back is a Professor of Philosophy of Education and the former president of Kaye Academic College of Education. He practices heutagogy in his courses, and his fields of research include Epistemo...
Maha Bali

American University in Cairo

Maha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-founder o...
Ilanit Bar-Tov
Ilanit Bar-Tov is the Principal of Tomer, an experimental elementary school in Beer Sheva, Israel. She has been working in the Israeli education system for 27 years. Bar-Tov holds an M.A. in Administr...
Lisa Marie Blaschke
Lisa Marie Blaschke is program lead of the online Home Hub at Learnlife in Barcelona, Spain. Previously, she was program director of and instructor in the Master in Management of Technology Enhanced L...
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...
Devin Carberry
Devin Carberry is the Director of Learning and the founding learning guide for Learnlife Barcelona. For the last twenty years, Devin has worked in a variety of educational settings — from after ...
Andy Collis
Andy Collis (BA.Hons, A.T.D., M.A., PhD.) was born in Nottinghamshire, U.K., in 1956. He gained a BA. Hons in Fine At Painting & Printmaking, from Sheffield University, taught art in high schools,...
Dave Cormier
Dave Cormier is currently working on digital learning strategy and special projects with the University of Windsor. As a change leader, an educational researcher and learning community advocate he has...
Matt Crosslin
Matt Crosslin, Ph.D. is currently an Instructional Designer II at Orbis Education, where he works with faculty to create student-centered, active learning-based courses. He is also part-time faculty a...
Nigel Ecclesfield
Nigel Ecclesfield is an independent researcher exploring learning, teaching and the use of digital technologies for learning, having worked in the English post-compulsory education sectors from 1978 t...
Philip Ecclesfield
Philip Ecclesfield has experience of running outdoor nurseries including managing an award-winning setting, and running training for teachers, parents and managers in schools and nurseries. Phil is an...
Toqa el Ahwal
Toqa El Ahwal is a 21-year old marketing senior at The American University in Cairo. Previously living in Alexandria before moving to Cairo to live through the 4 year university experience that helped...
Youssef Fahmy
Youssef Fahmy is a chemistry graduate student from the American University in Cairo. He is a musician in the Egyptian metal/rock scene and plays in the current underground music as a bass player. He a...
Fred Garnett
Fred Garnett started teaching about the social impact of technology in 1984. When the web came along, he started building web-based learning projects, becoming Head of Community Programmes at the UK D...
Amnon Glassner
Amnon Glassner (PhD) is a senior lecturer and pedagogical guide at Kaye Academic College of Education. His main research interests are heutagogy, cognition in education, creative and critical thinking...
Stewart Hase
Dr Stewart Hase has always been a believer in human agency, and he first realised that people have agency over their own learning while watching nurses learn at work in the 1970s. As an educator, he s...
Mai Hashad
Mai Hashad is a former student of the American University in Cairo (AUC). She graduated a in 2019 with a major in Finance and a double minor in Math and Financial Mathematics. She is currently working...
Khaled Abou Hussein
Khaled Abou Hussein attended school under the British IGCSE system and went on to graduate from the American University in Cairo in the Spring of 2020. Majoring in business administration with a conce...
Haya Kaplan
Haya Kaplan (PhD) is a senior lecturer at Kaye Academic College of Education. She is the head of the Center for Motivation and Self-Determination as well as the head of Kaye Induction Unit. Kaplan is ...
Chris Kenyon
Chris Kenyon has worked in every level of education over the past sixty years. He has also been a consultant to governments and organisations in Europe, Africa, North America, the Middle East and Asia...
Vijaya Bhanu Kote
Vijaya Bhanu Kote is a teacher and headteacher living and working in a remote rural location in Andhra Pradesh in India. She has been teaching since 1998 in primary schools, developing learning activi...
Val Margarit
Val Margarit is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Keiser University, Pembroke Pines, Florida. Previously, Val was a K12 teacher, college professor and department chair, course developer, and facul...
João Filipe Matos
João Filipe Matos is a Full Professor at the Instituto de Educação of the Universidade de Lisboa (IEULisboa) and a researcher at the Research Centre on Education and Training. He holds a degree in ...
Maria Northcote
Prof. Maria Northcote is the Director of Higher Research Degrees at Avondale University College (Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia). She has been an active educational researcher since 1998. Most of her ...
Emma O'Brien
Emma O'Brien is an Academic Developer in Technology Enhanced Learning in Mary Immaculate College where she teaches in the area of digital pedagogy both in the context of faculty development and underg...
Jean Reale
Jean Reale has over 20 years’ experience as a teacher and educational technologist in both the public and private sector in Ireland with a specific focus on creating inclusive learning environments....
Motladi Angie Setlhako
Dr. Motladi Angeline Setlhako has a doctorate in process evaluation of programmes from the University of South Africa. She joined UNISA as a Course Coordinator for Technology Education and developed T...

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