IAFOR Journal of Education
Volume 5 – Issue 2 – Summer 2017
appointed by the Hong Kong Education Bureau as a professional member of a territory-wide review panel. His research interests include inclusive pedagogy in Confucian-heritage Culture, eLearning strategies, professional craft knowledge, and second language teacher education. He is particularly interested in constructing/deconstructing the cultural model of inclusion, and exploring how quality education for all could be fostered in Chinese communities. Email: eddyli@cantab.net Jillian Marchant, James Cook University, Australia Jillian Marchant holds a Master’s in Public Administration with a major in Policy and is a PhD candidate at the School of Education, James Cook University, Australia. She is the author of several articles that seek to appreciate the unfolding association between increasingly accessible formal adult learning and social development in remote and sparsely populated areas. As a resident of relatively isolated community with a low population density, she remains committed to exploring the ways in which adult tertiary education may be facilitated to assistant the inhabitants of these fragile areas. She is an invited ad hoc reviewer for Australian education conferences as well as recently contributing as an associate editor at Common Ground Publishing. Her research interests include the impact of adult education on the life chances of individuals and other practices that interrupt social and political stratification. Email: jillian.marchant@my.jcu.edu.au Dr Dave E. Marcial, College of Computer Studies, Dumaguete City, Philippines Dave Marcial holds various positions in many professional organizations in the Philippines. He is the founder of the Society for ICT in Teacher Education (ICT4TEd) in the Philippines. He is the founding president of the ICT Association of Dumaguete & Negros Oriental (ICTDgte), Philippines. Formerly, he is President of the Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE) and Board Secretary of the Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP). He is currently Board of Trustee of the Philippine e-Learning Society (PeLS). He is also member of the Technical Committee for Information Technology of the Philippine Commission on Higher Education. His research interest lies in e-learning, local knowledge computing, and information systems where he has been the recipient of some local, national and international research grants. Dr Marcial is the dean of the College of Computer Studies, Dumaguete City, Philippines. Email: demarcial@su.edu.ph Dr Richard Mather, Buckinghamshire New University, United Kingdom Richard Mather is a Course Leader in the Department of Computing where he teaches software engineering and co-leads research in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). He holds postgraduate qualifications in software engineering (MSc, Oxford) and in environmental sciences (DPhil, Oxford; MSc, UCNW). His pedagogic research and PhD supervision include adaptive assessment practices, technologies and collaborative behaviours for learning computer science subjects. For the past twenty years he has also provided services to education, governments and industry concerning the development and use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing for environmental management. In 2010 he was awarded The Institution of Analysts and Programmers Prize for Software Engineering after developing a system to automate vegetation mapping from aerial imagery. His geospatial project outputs provide a rich source of case studies for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Email: richard.mather@bucks.ac.uk Dr Alyson Miller, Deakin University, Australia Alyson Miller is a writer, critic and scholar from Geelong, Australia. Her research focuses on scandalous literature, and the representation of freaks in literary and popular texts, as well as
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