Ronit Lis-Hacohen Author

Orit Hazzan is a Professor at the Technion’s Department of Education in Science and Technology. Her research interest is computer science and software engineering education. She has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and four books – three of them were published by Springer. In parallel to her academic research, she was an advisor to Israeli hi-tech companies on matters related to the implementation of agile project management. Currently, she works on change management processes in learning organizations in the context of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Ronit Lis-Hacohen is a project manager at the Technion of two main initiatives: a) establishment of the Technion Guangdong campus in China and b) Technion MOOCs strategic development. She is an industrial and management engineer and IT analyst with twenty years of experience in designing and managing information systems projects in various fields, especially ERP projects. She has a master degree in Education from the Open University of Israel. 
The two authors have extensive experience in the implementation of the MERge model in industry, academia and the public sector in various managerial, educational, and research roles.