Dr. France Bélanger is University Distinguished Professor, R. B. Pamplin Professor, and Tom and Daisy Byrd Senior Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech. She is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. Dr. Bélanger has been teaching information systems (IS) for more than 30 years in the United States, as well as in Canada, Ethiopia, Portugal, and New Zealand. She has published several books and articles on IS education-related topics, including a highly cited book on distance learning. She has won several international awards. Dr. Bélanger is a proponent of learner-centered approaches to IS education and has developed a number of tools and materials to facilitate such learning. She has taught online and face-to-face classes for undergraduate, graduate, professional, and executive students, in addition to PhD students. She has led numerous workshops related to education, learner-centered teaching, and mentoring. In 2022, she co-launched an outreach program called “Voices of Privacy” to educate society about information privacy issues and solutions.

Dr. Robert E. Crossler is the Philip L. Kays Distinguished Professor in Information Systems and the Management, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship Department Chair at the Carson College of Business at Washington State University. Dr. Crossler has more than 15 years of university teaching experience, primarily in information systems. He has published on information systems education and facilitated innovative teaching workshops. In addition, he has applied the principles of learner-centered education to a variety of courses, including the Computer Concepts course for freshman, the Introduction to IS course for juniors and seniors, the Core IT course for MBA students, database courses at the undergraduate and master’s levels, and information security courses at the undergraduate level.

Dr. Craig Van Slyke is the Mike McCallister Eminent Scholar Chair in Computer Information Systems at Louisiana Tech University. Prior to joining Louisiana Tech, he was dean and professor of computer information systems at the W. A. Franke College of Business at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Van Slyke has more than 20 years of university teaching experience, primarily in the area of information systems. He has published extensively on information systems education and has coauthored four IS textbooks. Dr. Van Slyke has held leadership positions in the Southern Association for Information Systems and the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Education. In 2024, he launched a new initiative, “AI Goes to College,” a podcast and newsletter devoted to helping higher education professionals navigate the changes brought on by generative artificial intelligence.