Dr. Chad Hoggan is a researcher, scholar, and public speaker. He is an Associate Professor of Adult Education at North Carolina State University and Co-editor of the Journal of Transformative Education. Dr. Hoggan's research addresses significant learning experiences in adulthood. One branch of research explores the learning and change required during major life transitions. This research has addressed such diverse groups as college students, breast cancer survivors, military veterans, and migrants. Based on this and other research, he developed a Typology of Transformative Learning Outcomes and other analytic tools to aid scholars in understanding and researching transformative learning. Another important area of scholarship deals with the learning necessary for all people in order for free and democratic societies to function.

Dr Blackman has taught in the areas of literature, English, communications studies, and educational research. She has a profound interest in how classroom experiences can strategically incorporate alternative pedagogies and assessments, and she began working MacEwan with some 15 years of experience in post-secondary teaching and learning. Her PhD in Educational Research, Curriculum and Learning (University of Calgary) focused on instructors’ and students’ experiences of the dialogic classroom. Her areas of expertise include discussion pedagogies, arts-based pedagogies (especially popular culture), academic writing pedagogies, students as partners, collaborative class learning conditions, instructor responsiveness to diversity in the classroom, and understanding learners’ experiences.

Dr. Charmaine Bissessar is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CoETaL) and still functions as the Director of Educational Onlining Support Systems (EDoSS). She is also Senior Lecturer with the University of Guyana where she lectures in Education at the Masters and Post-Graduate levels. She supervises the Master’s Theses students.  She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Dr. Bissessar has presented at conferences regionally and globally and has written extensively on leadership in education focusing on gender. Her publications add to the limited extant research on anecdotal and empirical data on the Caribbean. Her passion continues to be research and teaching. Additionally, she peer- reviews for several international journals to keep abreast of the latest research in her field. Her interests encompass education, professional development, quality assurance in education and online learning and teaching. In her spare time, she writes prose and short stories. Her latest prose was published in an issue of the Caribbean Writer dedicated to Dereck Walcott.