New Directions in Educational Technology and Administration

Prof. (Dr.) Fred Paas is professor and chair of the research group Educational and Developmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He is also a professorial fellow at the School of Education/Early Start of the University of Wollongong in Australia. He holds a master's degree (1988) in human movement sciences and a Ph.D. degree (1993) in instructional technology. His research focuses on the design of effective and efficient learning environments by applying contemporary, multidisciplinary scientific knowledge about the human cognitive system. He has published more than 300 articles and book chapters and he was recognized as the world's most productive author in the five best journals in the field of educational psychology. Since 2015 he has been the editor-in-chief of the journal Educational Psychology Review, which is the number one journal in the field of educational psychology. He is also on the editorial board of several other renowned journals, such as the Journal of Educational Psychology, Educational Technology Research and Development, and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Prof. (Dr.) Srikanta Patnaik is the Director of IIMT, Bhubaneswar. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999 and supervised 34 Ph. D. theses and more than 60 M. Tech theses in the area of Machine Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and edited 82 books and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc. He is the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England and also Editors-in-chief of Book Series on "Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology" published from Springer, Germany.

Prof. (Dr.) Taosheng Wang is a doctor, professor of Applied Economics (International Trade Direction), specialist of General Office of the State Council, director of Chinese Society of World Economy, Vice Chairman of the Expert Committee of China Association of Trade in Service, master tutor. He is the dean of School of Business of Hunan International Economics University, chief expert of the provincial-level social science key research base. He is also foregoer of provincial-level key construction course 'International Trade', provincial-level teaching team 'International Trade', provincial-level characteristic specialty 'International Economics and Trade'. His main research areas are international economic and trade theory and policy; institutional innovation and international trade; international competitive advantage and competitive strategy.