Full Professor of Educational Technology and Leadership at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Doctor in Pedagogy (1998) and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) (2002). Research professor in educational technology, educational organisation, leadership and quality of education at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the UOC. Director of the Postgraduate Course in Leadership and Management of Educational Centres at the UOC. He has directed and participated in research projects related to the educational use of ICT. He has published several books and scientific articles in the international journals of impact (ORCID).

Dr Duart is the President of EDEN (Digital Learning Europe), Europe’s leading network in Digital Education. He is also the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, a peer-reviewed scientific journal in e-learning, Q1 in JCR and Scopus. He is also a member of “The University of the Future Network" and coordinator of REDUNETE, a network of Colombian universities using technology in education. 

Mike Sharples is Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK. His expertise involves human-centred design of new technologies and environments for learning. He inaugurated the mLearn conference series and was Founding President of the International Association for Mobile Learning. As Academic Lead for the FutureLearn company, he informed design of its social learning approach. He provides consultancy for organisations that include UNESCO and UNICEF. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. He founded the Innovating Pedagogy report series and is author of over 300 papers in the areas of educational technology, learning sciences, science education, human-centred design of personal technologies, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. His recent book is Practical Pedagogy: 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn, published by Routledge.

Dr. Alev Ateş-Çobanoğlu is an Associate Professor of Computer Education and Instructional Technology (CEIT) program of Faculty of Education, Ege University. She received her M.Sc in the Dokuz Eylul University in 2005. She had worked as an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) teacher at a high school of Ministry of National Education (MoNE) for three years. She received her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Ege University in 2013. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Computer and Instructional Technology. Her academic interests are blended learning, online learning, ICT integration in education, instructional technology and instructional design.

Educational Technology and Computing