Professor Philipp Gonon
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Philipp Gonon studied Law and Journalism from 1974
until 1976 at the University of Fribourg,
Switzerland. Afterwards he continued studying
Pedagogy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland,
and at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. From
1986 until 1992 he became research assistant and
lecturer at the Institute of Pedagogy of the
University of Bern, Switzerland where he finished
his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 1997. From
1999 until 2004, Gonon was appointed to Full
University Professor at the Chair of Vocational and
Operational Further Education at the University of
Trier in Germany. Since 2004, Gonon has held the
Chair of Vocational Education and Training and
Vocational Teacher Training at the University of
Zurich, Switzerland. Gonon has done research about
Georg Kerschensteiner, the relation of schooling and
vocation and about the European educational reforms.
He specialised in the areas of historical and
international comparative educational research. In
addition, Gonon does research in quality assurance
and evaluation, modularization in Vocational
Education and he publishes about Philosophy and
Theory of Vocational Education.
Prof. Masami Yoshida
Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chiba University, Japan
Masami Yoshida was born in Osaka, Japan in 1957. His
major is in educational technology and B.Sc. and
M.Edu. He used to work in the Faculty of Education,
Toyama University, and did studies about preservice
trainings. Then, he moved to National Institute of
Multimedia Education and engaged a research project
for faculty development. He also had experiences to
contribute to Japan International Cooperation
Agencies (JICA) as an expert and was dispatched to
Thailand, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea for
educational development there. Recently, he provided
training for directors of educational TV from
African, South American and Asian countries in a
JICA training center. Now, he works in the fields of
public education, studies of public affairs,
Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Chiba University, Japan. His recent publication is
“Countermeasures and culture preparation of
cyberbullying”, the center for research and
development in teacher education, Faculty of
Education, Chiba University (ed.), Tokyo: Hukumura
Pub. Prof. Yoshida is a member of the Japan Society
for Educational Technology, Japan Association for
Educational Media Society, Japan Society for
Information and Systems in Education, and Japan
Association for College and University Education.
Professor Jon-Chao Hong
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Jon-Chao Hong has received his doctoral degree in
Education from the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, and is currently working as a
Chair professor in the department of industrial
education at National Taiwan Normal University
(NTNU). As the director of Digital Game-based
Learning Laboratory (GBL), he has developed 9 web
games, 24 educational Apps and VR for skill training
and language learning.
As the secretary general of Taiwan Creativity
Development Association, he also organizes several
creative contests relevant to STEAM, such as
PowerTech Contest to invite elementary, junior and
senior high school students to produce robots or
miniatures in the morning and using these to compete
in the afternoon to ensure students’ hands-on
creation without parents or teachers’ assistance. As
the executive secretary of International Exhibition
for Young Inventors (IEYI), he also promotes the
innovative contest to give students an opportunity
to stimulate their science inquiry abilities, and
also cultivated students’ creativity and thinking
attitude of STEAM. In addition, he has published a
number of academic articles in international
journals related to digital game-based learning and
thinking skills and creativity about 45 articles on
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals and
received the Outstanding Research Prize from
Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan.
Associate Professor Pedro Teixeira Isaias
UNSW Business School, NUNSW Sydney, Australia
Pedro Isaias is an associate professor at the Information Systems & Technology Management School of The University of New South Wales (UNSW – Sydney), Australia. Previously he was an associate professor at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Before moving to Australia, he served at the Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) in Lisbon, Portugal, where he was responsible for several courses and director of the master degree program in Management / MBA. Pedro was director of the master degree program in Electronic Commerce and Internet for 10 years. Pedro Isaias holds a PhD in Information Management (in the specialty of information and decision systems) from the NOVA University of Lisbon. Author of several books, book chapters, papers and research reports, all in the information systems area, he has headed several conferences and workshops within the mentioned area. He has also been responsible for the scientific coordination of several EU funded research projects. He is also member of the editorial board of several journals and program committee member of several conferences and workshops. Currently he conducts research activity related to MIS in general, and more specifically Learning Technologies, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation, e-Business and WWW related areas.
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