Agnes Kukulska-Hulme is Professor Emerita of Learning Technology and Communication at The Open University, UK. Her expertise encompasses online education, mobile learning, migrant learning, and self-directed language learning. She is on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of several journals and is Past-President of the International Association for Mobile Learning. In addition to over 300 academic publications and papers, she has co-edited several books and authored policy and practice reports for UNESCO, British Council, Commonwealth of Learning, International Research Foundation for English Language Education and Cambridge University Press. Professor Kukulska-Hulme has served as an external evaluator in reviews of research and teaching in several institutions, and as an external examiner of over 40 doctoral theses. She has led and contributed to numerous research projects focusing on migrants’ language learning, future roles of digital/AI-enabled mobile learning and the English language in Higher Education, language-mediated access to essential online services, and teachers’ professional development.
Jonathon Reinhardt (PhD, Penn State) is Professor of English Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona, USA. His scholarly interests are in the theory and practice of technology-enhanced second and foreign language pedagogy, especially with emergent, informal technologies like social media and digital gaming. With over 50 publications and talks in over a dozen countries around the world, he is the author of "Gameful Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice" (2019) and, most recently, served as the game-based language learning section editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of CALL (2025).
Jeong-Bae Son, PhD, is an author, an educator, and a researcher. He worked as Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL in the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He serves as the President of the Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (APACALL) and the Director of the Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching Research Institute (TELTRI). He is the author of Teacher Development in Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Insights into Digital Literacy in Language Teaching (Castledown, 2024). Details of his research can be found on his website at https://drjbson.com.
Dr. Melinda Dooly is a Serra Húnter Full Professor in the Department of Language & Literature Education and Social Science Education at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has recently been awarded a five-year ICREA Acadèmia fellowship by AGAUR (2025-2030). Her research principally focuses on technology-enhanced project-based language learning, intercultural communication, and the development of 21st century competences in teacher education. She has published extensively in international journals and is the author and editor of numerous books and chapters in these areas. She is currently co-editor of the book series Telecollaborative Learning and Virtual Education in Education (formerly Telecollaboration in Education), published by Peter Lang. She currently serves as a member of the Research Council for Education at the Spanish National Agency for Investigation.
Professor Hui-Chin Yeh is currently the Distinguished Professor in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Dean of International Affairs, and Editor-in-Chief of Educational Technology & Society, a Q1-ranked journal. Her previous roles include Director of the Teaching Excellence Center, Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences, and Chair of the Department of Applied Foreign Languages. Professor Yeh's academic journey is distinguished by the publication of over 90 research papers, with 79% of these contributions featured in SSCI-indexed journals, reflecting the significant impact and high quality of her research. Her scholarly reputation is further enhanced by being recognized in Stanford University’s AD Index as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists. She is a four-time recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholar Awards from the National Science and Technology Council (2011, 2017, 2020, and 2023), and has twice received the Research Excellence Award from YunTech — a testament to her sustained contributions to academic excellence. These awards are emblematic of the continuous recognition of her exemplary research and her ongoing commitment to academic excellence.