Berlin Fang is the director of instructional design at Abilene Christian University. His research interests include faculty adoption of technology, media use in teaching, the use of screencast for teaching and learning, and performance improvement in higher education. Berlin contributes to a variety of media on topics related to instructional design and educational technology. His works appear in Performance Improvement, Open Education Research, Faculty Focus, WISE Ed Review, Educause Review, China Education News, and the Chinese editions of New York Times, Financial Times, and Radio Netherlands.
Leah Wickersham-Fish is an associate professor in the School of Educational Leadership at Abilene Christian University-Dallas. Her research interests include diffusion and adoption of technological innovations; instructional design for effective teaching and learning; critical thinking, collaborative learning and the impact on adult learning; and mentoring students online and fostering student growth in the online learning environment. She is published in numerous journals.
Rebecca A. Glazier is a political science professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is the director of the Little Rock Congregations Study. In addition to her research on religion and community engagement, she studies the scholarship of teaching and learning and is passionate about improving the quality of online education. Her research, videos, and public engagement on online education are available on her website, along with information about webinars and consulting: http://www.rebeccaglazier.net/
Heidi Skurat Harris is an associate professor and the graduate coordinator for the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her primary research areas are online writing instruction, online professional development, and online program development. She has more than 20 publications on online teaching and learning, and an upcoming book on using multimodal to enhance online learning. More information, including a full list of publications, is available at https://hasharris.com/
Tamara Champa is a lifelong educator who believes that trust and strong relationships are the foundation to successful school leadership. For the past 10 years, Dr. Champa has served as a district superintendent in Minnesota. While serving in this role, Dr. Champa has been nominated for superintendent of the year on three occasions, has obtained national superintendent certification, human capital leadership certification, and diversity and inclusion certification. Prior to serving as superintendent, Dr. Champa held leadership roles as a middle school principal, elementary principal, community education director, and director of early childhood. Tammy Champa began her career as a middle school teacher. Her determination to make a difference led to recognition as district teacher of the year, regional outstanding educator, and semifinalist for Minnesota teacher of the year.
Theresa Waterbury is a professor and chair of the Leadership Education Department at Winona State University. Her professional experience includes 8 years working as a quality manager in manufacturing and 23 years in higher education. She has taught online for 12 years and her courses meet the Quality Matters online standards of excellence. Her areas of expertise include lean for higher education, systems thinking, team building, online pedagogy, and leadership. She published Educational Lean in Higher Education: Theory and Practice, one of the first books illustrating how to implement lean in higher education. Waterbury has a PhD in organization and management from Capella University, MEd in human resource development with emphasis in adult learning from the University of Minnesota, and BS in Statistics from Winona State University.
Angela McQuinn is a Licensed School Social Worker. She possesses a bachelor of science degree, in social work and a master of science degree in leadership education. She is currently working to complete her K–12 principal’s license and certification in restorative practices. As a tenured staff, Angela has spent time supporting the needs of students, families, and colleagues from pre-K through high school. She has been working for the last three years as the school social worker at the senior high school and alternative high school. The past school year she worked with her team to implement weekly community circles for the alternative high school. Angela has dedicated herself as a restorative practitioner to address barriers with traditional paradigms and systems that interfere with reintegration, relationships, and reparations.
Sonique Sailsman is an assistant professor of nursing at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She teaches in the undergraduate BSN program. Her clinical practice experience includes pediatric acute care (PICU, CICU and PACU). Her areas of research interest focus on nursing education, pediatrics and healthy work environments. In addition to her scholarship and teaching, Dr. Sailsman is an active member of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society.
Faye Milne is an assistant professor of nursing at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She teaches in the undergraduate BSN program with an emphasis on community health. Her clinical practice includes acute care and community public health nursing. Dr. Milne’s research focus areas are innovative ways to educate today’s nursing students. Additionally, Dr. Milne is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society.
Santanu De is an assistant professor of anatomy and physiology in the Department of Biological Sciences, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He received a BSc in physiology (Honors) from Presidency College, Kolkata, India, an MSc in biophysics, molecular biology, and genetics from the University of Calcutta, India, and a PhD in physiology from Kent State University, Ohio. He pursued postdoctoral fellowships at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana and at Yale-NUS College, a collaboration of Yale University with the National University of Singapore. He was a visiting faculty in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. Dr. De has several years of experience teaching multiple courses in anatomy, physiology, cell biology, human biology, and general biology. His research interests include STEM education, pedagogy, and physiology, in which has published multiple peer-reviewed papers. More information can be found in his professional profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/santanu-de-62809923
Vanaja Nethi is an assistant professor at the Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice at Nova Southeastern University. She teaches research and STEM education courses at the doctoral level and advises doctoral dissertation students. She did her undergraduate degree, double majoring in biology and chemistry at Universiti Sains Malaysia, a master’s degree in science education at the University of London, and earned a PhD in education from Cornell University. She has worked internationally in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia and has more than 10 years of experience working in macrolevel educational research, policy, and planning. Her research interests include online and blended instruction, STEM education, qualitative research methodology, and transnational higher education. She has several publications, conference presentations, and ongoing research in these areas. She is the assistant editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Quarterly Review of Distance Education, a reviewer and member of the editorial board for the open-access online journal, The Qualitative Report, and a guest editor for the Transnational Social Review.
