Dr.Ocak completed his undergraduate education (1998) in Ankara University, Faculty of Science in the field of Mathematics, and his master's degree (2002) and doctorate education (2006) in the field of Instructional Technology at the New York State University-Albany Faculty of Education. He taught in schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education between 1998-1999. He started to work as a Research Assistant at Gazi University, Gazi Education Faculty, Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies in 2006. He received the title of Assistant Professor in 2008, Associate Professor in 2012 and Professor in 2020 in the same department. He has attended to hundreds of local and foreign conferences and congresses; published articles, books; studied in projects in the field of Information Technologies and has held administrative positions. He is still working as a full time professor at Gazi University. His recent works focus on metaverse, robotics, coding and the internet of things. He is the editor-in-chief of the international Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age.

Dr Ivana Krsmanović is a professor of applied sciences affiliated with the Faculty of Technical Sciences Čačak, University of Kragujevac, Serbia, where she also holds the position of Head of the Department for Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a recipient of the prestigious Joint Excellence in Sciences and Humanities (JESH) scholarship (2023), awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Dr Krsmanović’s scholarly pursuits focus on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction, Computer-assisted language learning, and Digital Humanities. She has been actively involved in several projects at the intersection of Digital Humanities and Computer-assisted Language Learning, especially in exploring the aspects of Community of Inquiry within the EFL online teaching. 

Prof. Dr. Sehnaz Baltaci is at the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies (CEIT) at Faculty of Education, Bursa Uludag University with expertise in e-learning, teacher education, and integration of online technologies in teacher education. She received her PhD at Instructional Technology from SUNY, Albany, NY. She took part as coordinator or researcher in many European Union and TUBITAK projects in the fields of technology integration and teacher education. She has conducted a series of studies dealing with e-learning, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, metaverse, entrepreneurship, and teacher education that were presented in international conferences and published in different journals.

Dr. Shanzhen Gao is an Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at Virginia State University, and a Lifetime Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications. He was born and raised in China and educated in China and the United States. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences. He taught more than 20 computer science and computer information systems courses to undergraduates, master’s, and Ph.D. students at Virginia State University, the University of Richmond, and UNC Charlotte. In addition, he taught mathematics courses at Florida Atlantic University. He has taught in-person, hybrid, and online in his teaching career. His research interests lie in applying mathematics to computer science and vice versa; the topics include cybersecurity, risk management, data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, parallel and distributed computing, algorithms, data science, discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and graph theory. He is enthusiastic about interdisciplinary collaboration, learning, and applying his knowledge to the real world.