Professor Kari Smith, Ph.D

Teacher Educator|Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Research interests are teacher education, professional development, mentoring novice teachers and assessment for and of learning.

She worked as a school teacher for 18 years, before she became a teacher educator. She acted as the Head of Teacher Education programs abroad as well as at the University of Bergen in Norway. She is also the Head of the Norwegian National Research School in Teacher Education (NAFOL) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She has been active in the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI), as well as a member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and of the International Study Association for Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) and sits on a number of international editorial boards for journals in teacher education and assessment.

Miri Shonfeld, Ph.D

Head of the Center | Technology, Education, and Cultural Diversity (TEC) | Mofet Institute (https://mofet.macam.ac.il/tec/) Faculty Member | Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel-Aviv

Her research deals with online learning environments, collaborative work, intercultural links and faculty development.

Miri Shonfeld is the academic chair of IAIE Conference 2021 (Intercultural Education in an Age of Information and Disinformation) June 27-20, 2021 (https://iaie.smkb.ac.il/). She was the head of ICT at Kibbutzim College of Education and the head of the graduate program of Technology in Education. She was involved in writing the national program for the 21th century, as well as numerous position papers.

She was invited by universities all over the world to present her philosophy and pedagogy on using ICT in education and she is one of the international leaders of AACE and the EduSummit supported by UNESCO. She received the unity award in 2018 for the TEC center from the President of Israel and from the Israeli Ministry of Education for the unique pedagogical initiative in 2013 and a prize for outstanding educational project for tolerance in 2010. She may be contacted at mirish@macam.ac.il.

Professor Gábor Halász, D.Sc

Professor and Leader| Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology - Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest Chair of this Conference

Research and Teaching areas are; education policy, sociology of higher education, education and European integration and global trends in education

He was DirectorGeneral of the Institute for Educational Research and Development in Budapest where he is now scientific advisor. Professor Halász has worked as an expert consultant for a number of international organizations, particularly the OECD, the European Commission, the World Bank, and the Council of Europe. Since 1996 he has been representing Hungary in the Governing Board of CERI (OECD), he also served as president of this Board.