Dr. Elliot King is professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Loyola University Maryland, where he is the founder and supervisor of an online M.A. program in Emerging Media. He has written about the impact of new communication technology for 30 years and is the author of seven books including Best Practices in Online Program Development (Routledge, 2014) and Planning Strategically for Online Education (Routledge, forthcoming). He has also written extensively about the impact of the Internet on journalism, including Free for All: The Internet’s Transformation of Journalism (Northwestern University Press 2010) which was the first history of the Internet and the news media and The Online Journalist (Harcourt Brace, 1995) which was one of the first books to explain how journalists could use the Internet for reporting. Dr. King began teaching online in 1999, when he was a member of the faculty of a Pan Asian Master’s Degree program in journalism sponsored by the Ateneo de Manila University, the premier private university in The Philippines. In that program, he taught students in six Asian countries including The Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam, Nepal and Bengla Desh. He has been teaching online ever since and launched the online M.A. program at Loyola in 2013. The program currently has 100 students. A recipient of a Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities, he is the founder of the Media History Exchange, a social network and archive for media historians and executive chair of the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, an annual interdisciplinary conference for people studying media and communication history. Prior to entering the academic world, Dr. King edited Scientific Computing and Automation, a professional journal that looked at the ways new computer technology was changing scientific research and was a co-founder of Unisphere Research, which conducted research into Information Technology issues for companies such as IBM. Over the years, he has written hundreds of articles for popular, professional and academic journals. He received an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Media Sociology from the University of California, San Diego. He blogs at University5dot0.com and you can follow him on Twitter @elliotkingphd.

Teresa Slobuski is the liaison librarian for Teacher Education and Special Education at San Josè State University. She also serves as the Research Services Coordinator. In this role, she oversees the Research Department and liaisons with other library departments to provide excellent public service to SJSU students, staff, and faculty.

Deborah Keyek-Franssen, Ph.D. and Associate Vice President for Digital Education and Engagement at the University of Colorado System Office, is a creative educator and thought leader with over two decades of experience in IT and higher education. She began her career at the University of Colorado in 1998, where she served as director of academic technology; oversaw strategy and research in the use, implementation, and evaluation of educational technologies; and managed a team of consultants and technologists. Currently, Deborah works across the CU System in the areas of teaching and learning with technology, online education, access to higher education, and student success. She has been instrumental in furthering CU campuses’ implementation of digital and online education solutions, including MOOCs. She serves as the director of the Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT) Conference and oversees state authorization compliance. She is an inaugural member of the Coursera Advisory Council, serves as faculty for the EDUCAUSE Management Institute, and sits on the steering committee for the National Association for System Heads’ (NASH) Taking Student Success to Scale initiative. She has supported the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT) for more than a decade and participated in research and program development to increase the number of girls, women, and underrepresented minorities in IT education and work. Deborah is a graduate of Dartmouth College and completed her Ph.D. in German Literature at the University of Michigan, where she also earned a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies.

Jennifer provides leadership in researching, scoping, managing, and evaluating key projects, programs, and customized solutions that are aligned with OLC’s Advisory Services domestically and internationally. Dr. Mathes has nearly 20 years of experience in both public and private for-profit higher education where she has supported online learning initiatives since she taught her first online course in 1997. She has been instrumental in working with start-up online initiatives as well as leading growth in institutions with an existing online program. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she wrote her dissertation on “Predictors for Student Success in Online Education.” She also has earned a Master of Science degree in Business Education and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications from Illinois State University.