Gloria Natividad Author

Gloria Natividad is the Department of Academic Development´s Head, at the Technological Institute of Higher Education of Saltillo, Mexico. She earned a M.C. in Applied Technology, Training and Development and a Ph.D. in Applied Technology and Performance Improvement from the University of North Texas at Denton. She served as the Editorial Assistant of the fourth edition of the Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, as well as of the Encyclopedia of Educational Technology. She serves as the Editorial Assistant of the Development Section of Educational Technology Research & Development.

J. Michael Spector is a Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas. He was previously Professor of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia, and Professor of Instructional Systems at Florida State University. He served as Chair of Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation at Syracuse University and Director of the Educational Information Science and Technology Research Program at the University of Bergen. He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on intelligent support for instructional design, assessing learning in complex domains, and technology integration in education. Dr. Spector is a Past President of the Association for Educational and Communications Technology. He is editor of Educational Technology Research & Development and serves on numerous other editorial boards. He edited the third and fourth editions of the Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, as well as the Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, and has more than 150 publications to his credit.
Nicholas Evangelopoulos is a Professor of Decision Sciences at the University of North Texas. His research interests include statistics, text mining, and cognitive computing. His publications include articles appearing in Management Information Systems Quarterly, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, the European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and many others. In 2013 he received the University of North Texas College of Business Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award and in 2016 the University of North Texas College of Business Professional Development Institute Fellowship. He has published a book with Springer in 2013 and is currently writing a book which is under contract with Routledge (Taylor & Francis).