The Team

Charlotte Nirmalani “Lani” Gunawardena is Distinguished Professor of distance education and instructional technology in the Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences Program at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, U.S.A.

Casey Frechette is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Journalism and Digital Communication at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. There, he teaches production, writing, and editing classes.

Ludmila Layne is retired from Simon Rodriguez Experimental University, Venezuela, as an Associate Professor. She has over 28 years of experience teaching, developing curriculum, and training students and faculty in instructional technologies in the United States, Mexico, Venezuela and Afghanistan, and more than 10 years participating in research and evaluation in instructional technologies and distance education in culturally diverse environments.

Guest Contributors

Damien M. Sánchez, Ph.D., CRP, is an associate with the Return on Investment (ROI) Institute, where he conducts program evaluations and teaches face-to-face and online workshops on evaluating programs to ROI.

Linda Barril received her Ph.D. in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences Program at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, U.S.A, in May 2017.