Dr Oblinger is President and CEO of EDUCAUSE, responsible for the association’s teaching and learning activities and the director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and education organizations, including 200 corporations. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Adult and Higher Education at North Carolina State University.  Dr Oblinger is internationally known for her leadership in teaching and learning with technology. She is editor or co-editor of seven books and the author or co-author of dozens of monographs and articles. Dr Oblinger has received several awards for teaching, research and distinguished service. She holds three degrees from Iowa State University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi.  

Dr Marcia Devlin (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her research involves both theoretical and practical investigations into contemporary higher education issues, policies, practices and trends. Current national work includes sitting on the National Advisory Group for the development and implementation of the Australian Survey of Student Engagement and working with the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council to advise the federal Minister for Education on Indigenous Higher Education. She is frequently invited to deliver national and international keynote addresses, workshops and seminars to provide policy and practice advice on a range of topics related to teaching, learning and quality in higher education.

Professor Kerri-Lee Krause (PhD) is Chair in Higher Education and Director, Griffith Institute for Higher Education, Griffith University, Australia. Her research expertise and experience spans broadly across higher education policy areas, but her particular research focus is the student experience in higher education. She currently leads a national study of the teaching-research nexus aimed at developing evidence-based resources for academics and policy makers. She recently led the national ten-year trend study of the first year experience in Australian universities. A significant part of her work involves providing policy and practical advice to university academics and administrators on managing and responding to the changing student experience in higher education.  

Professor Ron Piper is Vice-Principal (Governance & Planning) at St Andrew's University in Scotland.  A physics graduate of Pomona College, California, and a New Testament graduate of Kings College, London, Professor Piper was Head of the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews from 1992-2001 and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity 2001-02. Between 2002 and 2003 he was Research Fellow of the Centre of Theological Inquiry at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, returning to the University of St Andrews as Vice-Principal (Learning and Teaching).