Nilufer Guler Editor

Carine E. Ullom is the Associate Dean of Instructional Innovation at Ottawa University and serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Virtual Exchange. She has over 20 years’ experience implementing educational technology in higher education, having served in roles at The University of Kansas and St. Lawrence University (SLU) prior to joining Ottawa University. At SLU, she was the Director of the Language Resource Center. Her research focuses on the impact of GCTL on global identity development among pre-service teachers. She is passionate about faculty development regarding developing the globally aware self and internationalization of higher education through embedding intercultural competence development and global awareness capacity building opportunities in courses and programs via virtual exchange.

Nilufer Guler is director of the EdD program and associate professor of education at Rockhurst University. Her research interests include teacher education, ELL education, and internationalization of teacher education. She was a Global Teacher Education fellow in 2017-18, and she was co-lead on a grant from the Longview Foundation for Promoting Internationalization of Teacher Education Through Faculty Development. Her book Optimizing Elementary Education for English Language Learners was published in 2018, and she is a co-editor for the Globalization of Teacher Education book series at Rowman & Littlefield. Guler also serves on the Global Diversity Committee of AACTE.

Contributors include: Nila Akinyi Oduori, Gerardo Aponte-Safe, Elizabeth Asewe, Stefan Baumann, Delane Bender-Slack, Karen L. Biraimah, Natalie Bolton, Elisa Briga, Davide Capperucci, Jingxin Cheng, Melissa R. Collum, Sarah A. Coppersmith, Michelle D. Cude, Darla K. Deardorff, Nanda Dimitrov, Lorna Down, Laura Boynton Hauerwas, Kimberly Howard, Corinna Howland, Sarah-Louise Jones, Agreement L. Jotia, Shea Kerkhoff, Florence Kisirkoi, Brianna Kurtz, Melissa Liles, Heather A. Linville, Beatrice N. Manyasi, Rose Mbewe, Rosalyn McKeown, Jill Newton, Andrew Petersen, JoAnn Phillion, Ken Pritchard, Lankeu M. Reson, Ilaria Salvadori, Bima Sapkota, Ingrid Schudel, Alina Slapac, Laura L. Stachowski, Amara Stuehling, Shepherd Urenje, Carla Rey Vasquez, Lihong Wang, Chudi Zhou, and Lili Zhou