Breaking Through the Screen

Dr. Joan Kang Shin is an Associate Professor of Education at George Mason University and the Academic Program Coordinator of the Teaching Culturally & Linguistically Diverse & Exceptional Learners (TCLDEL) program. Dr. Shin specializes in teaching ESL/EFL to young learners and teenagers and has provided professional development programs and workshops to EFL teachers in over 100 countries around the world. She is a Series Editor of National Geographic Learning’s young learner programs Welcome to Our World, Our World, and Explore Our World, as well as the teen program Impact, and an author of the professional development title Teaching Young Learners English.

Dr. Jered Borup is an Associate Professor in the Division of Learning Technologies at George Mason University. He teaches primarily in the Learning Technologies in Schools Master’s degree concentration and certificate programs which are devoted to improving teacher practices in online and blended learning environments. He also frequently facilitates teacher workshops on practical online and blended teaching strategies. Before earning his Ph.D. at Brigham Young University, Jered taught history at a junior high school for six years. He has been teaching online and blended courses since 2008. He currently researches student support systems in online and blended environments.