Carolina R Buitrago Author

Martha A. Ramirez is an English instructor in the Department of Languages and Culture at Universidad de Los Andes. She has a bachelor's degree in foreign languages from the National Pedagogical University and a master's degree in education from the University of Los Andes. She's a master teacher for the Flipped Learning Global Initiative (FLGI), and an expert in the Flipped Learning Level II course and the FLGI Differentiation Certification course. She served as a volunteer coordinator for Electronic Village Online (EVO; TESOL initiative) for four years, and has been a virtual moderator of the Flipped Learning EVO session since 2016. Ramirez has participated in several national and international flipped learning projects, including those at La Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad Externado, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador and University of Oregon. Currently, Ramirez is part of a research group on bilingualism and multilingualism in the Andes, studying growth mentality and applying flipped learning to her research projects.

Carolina R. Buitrago has been an EFL teacher for over 20 years. She currently works as a professor and researcher at Institución Universitaria Colombo Americana–UNICA. Buitrago is a master teacher for the Flipped Learning Global Initiative, and was recently named to the FLGI 50, a list of the top 50 flipped learning leaders in higher education worldwide. She is also one of 49 international delegates who participated in the revision and evaluation of the Global Standards for Flipped Learning. Buitrago co-led the project "Flipping English learning, improving our 21st century Colombian learners' outcomes through technology and autonomy," which won the BETT Education and Technology in Higher Education Award in 2015. She also led the planning team for FlipTech Latam 2019. Buitrago has served on the board of the Flipped Learning Network since 2021.