Norma RA Romm (DLitt et Phil) is a Professor in the Department of Adult Education and Youth Development at the University of South Africa. She is author of The Methodologies of Positivism and Marxism (1991), Accountability in Social Research (2001), New Racism (2010), Responsible Research Practice (2018), People’s Education in Theoretical Perspective (with V McKay 1992), Diversity Management (with R Flood 1996), and Assessment of the Impact of HIV and AIDS in the Informal Economy of Zambia (with V McKay 2006). She has co-edited five books—Social Theory (with M Sarakinsky 1994), Critical Systems Thinking (with R Flood 1996), Balancing Individualism and Collectivism (with JJ McIntyre-Mills and Y Corcoran-Nantes 2017), Mixed Methods and Cross-Disciplinary Research (with JJ McIntyre-Mills, 2019) and Democracy and Governance for Resourcing the Commons (with JJ McIntyre-Mills and Y Corcoran-Nantes, 2019). She has published over 100 research articles on social theorizing, transformative research towards social and ecological regeneration, Indigenous paradigms of knowing, and the facilitation of adult learning. ORCID number: 0000-0002-1722-9720. 

I am currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Technologies at the Faculty of Education, Amasya University. My research interests include educational technology, electronic performance support systems, gamification, educational games, professional development, digital competencies, and qualitative research methods. I have published numerous research articles in national and international journals.

Professor. Faculty of Education. UNED (Spain).
Department of Didactics and School Organization.

José Gijón Puerta is Associate Professor in the Department of Didactics and School Organization at the University of Granada.
He has a degree in Biology, a master's degree in Paleoanthropology-Human Evolution and a PhD in Pedagogy. He is director of the research group at the University of Granada Laboratory for Cognition, Health, Training and Interaction among Humans, Animals and Machines. He also currently directs the R+D+i Project National Research Plan Code PID2021-128774OB-I00 «Effects of the application of a dog-assisted activities program (AAP) on academic stress levels in university students»

Marcos Jesús Iglesias Martínez earned a PhD in Educational Research, Curriculum and Professional Development from the University of Alicante (UA), receiving the PhD Special Award. He is currently a senior lecturer in Didactics and School Organisation at the UA Faculty of Education. Winner of the DOCENTIA-UA Award for Teaching Excellence in multiple years. Coordinator of the practicum course on the Undergraduate Degree in Child Education. Member of the Qualitative Research Group in Education, Teaching and Learning (GICEDA) and of the UA Institute for Gender Studies Research. Former member of the Center for Qualitative Psychology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Within the PhD Programme in Educational Research, he is in charge of the research line on Teacher Training and Learning. Former deputy coordinator of the UA Education Science Institute’s Networks for University Teaching. His lines of research are oriented towards initial training and professional development of teachers, designs of educational processes, gender, student and teacher mobility, Higher Education and qualitative research in education. He has published in different national and international journals in the field of Educational Sciences and regularly participates as a reviewer in different journals whose research topic is teacher professional development. He has directed several doctoral theses on teacher training with a qualitative approach. Likewise, he has been a collaborator, coordinator and principal investigator in various research and teaching innovation projects.

He received his undergraduate degree from the Gazi Faculty of Education, Curriculum and Instruction Program in 1997, his master's degree from the same program at the same university in 2000, and his doctorate degree in 2004. He were appointed to assistant professor title in 2005, associate professor title in 2012 and prof.dr title in 2017. He currently works as a lecturer at Mersin University, Faculty of Education, Department of Basic Education.