Gulsun Kurubacak-Meric is a professor in Distance Education at the College of Open Education at Anadolu University. Dr. Meric undertook graduate studies at Anadolu University, Turkey (MA. Educational Technology) and the University of Cincinnati, USA (Ed.D. Curriculum & Instruction), and also has worked a post-doctoral fellow at the College of Education at New Mexico State University, USA (2001-2002). Dr. Meric earned her B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the College of Informatics Technologies and Engineering of Hoca Ahmet Yesevi International Turk-Kazakhstani University in the year 2012-2013. Dr. Meric has over thirty-five years of experience in focusing on the egalitarian and ecological aspects of open and distance learning; finding new answers, viewpoints and explanations to online communication problems through critical pedagogy; and improving learner critical and creative thinking skills through project-based online learning, universal design principles and new communication technologies (ubiquities technologies, mobile technologies, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, etc.). Dr. Meric had been the Group Coordinator of R&D and International Relations at the College of Open Education of Anadolu University between 2014-2018. She has been the Quality Group Coordinator at the same College since January 2020. Dr. Gulsun Meric is the founder and editor-in-chief of AUAd (Açıköğretim Araştırmaları ve Uygulamaları Dergisi - Journal of Open Education Research and Applications - http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr). Dr. Meric is also the founding member of the Open and Distance Education Programs Accreditation Agency (AUDAK), and the head of the board of management member at the same accreditation agency. She continues to provide pedagogical support for distance learning.