"The last decade has seen universities around the world increasingly embrace ‘digital’ technologies as a new ‘common sense’ as evidenced by numerous policy and strategy documents, as they have been used to enhance the ‘student experience’ and provide the information and communication technology infrastructure that their student-customers and future employers in the global economy all appear to demand..." – Profs. Bin Zou (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China) and Michael Thomas (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Dr. Michael Thomas is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Chair of the Centre for Educational Research (CERES) at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He holds PhDs from Newcastle University and Lancaster University respectively and has taught and conducted research at universities in Germany, Japan, England and Wales over a twenty-five year period. He is author or editor of over 30 books and peer-reviewed special editions on computer-assisted language learning, digital natives, project-based pedagogy, online education and pedagogical theory. He is founding editor of four book series, including Digital Education and Learning, Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching and Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education.