Mission Leaders

The Global Standards Project began with the Flipped Learning Initiative International Faculty in 2017. The initial aim was to establish “the gold standard” for Flipped Learning training.  The next stage began with an expanded initiative to establish a global framework for Flipped Learning practice. On February 2, 2018, FLGI announced the co-chairs of the Global Standards Community (GSC). The chairpersons include: Dr. Eric Mazur, the Balkanski Professor of Physics at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education; Dr. Caroline Fell Kurban, Director of MEF University’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching in Turkey; Dr. Raul Santiago Campion, Professor of Didactics and Pedagogy at University of La Rioja, Spain; Dr. Gwo-Jen Hwang, Chair Professor, Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology; Robyn Brinks Lockwood, instructor, Stanford Language Center; and Jon Bergmann, Chairman and Chief Academic Officer of the Flipped Learning Global Initiative. On May 15, 2018, the Global Standard Project was incorporated as a non-profit operating as the Academy of Active Learning Arts and Sciences.

Global Standards Project Co-Chairs

Dr. Eric Mazur	Jon Bergmann	Dr. Caroline Fell Kurban	Dr. Raul Santiago	Robyn Brinks Lockwood	Dr. Gwo-Jen Hwang
Harvard University	Flipped Learning Global Initiative	MEF University	University of La Rioja	Stanford University	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University, Member of the Faculty of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Past President of the Optical Society. Mazur is an internationally recognized educational innovator. In education, he is widely known for his work on Peer Instruction, an interactive teaching method aimed at engaging students in the classroom and beyond. In 2014 Mazur became the inaugural recipient of the Minerva Prize for Advancements in Higher Education. He has received many awards for his work in physics and in education and has founded several successful companies. He has written extensively on education and is the author of Peer Instruction: A User's Manual (Prentice Hall, 1997), a book that explains how to teach large lecture classes interactively.	Jon Bergmann is one of the co-founders and pioneers of the flipped classroom. He is an active learning thought leader whose 10 books are translated into 13 languages and have sold in excess of 125,000 copies. Jon received the presidential award for teaching excellence and has traveled over 700,000 miles helping educators and school systems learn how to reach every student in every class every day. He heads an international cohort of 30 certified and experienced instructors who provide world-class professional development and support around the globe. Jon has seen first-hand the global promise, passion, and potential for Flipped Learning. He has also seen the pitfalls and myriad ways that Flipped Learning can be compromised by bad practice, inappropriate technology, and poor execution. Jon is driven to support the successful adoption of Flipped Learning worldwide.	As Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at MEF University, the first and only fully flipped university in the world, Dr. Fell Kurban has the responsibility of supporting instructors and students in development of Flipped Learning. Her role has seen her undertake practitioner research into flipped learning in higher education. Through the Flipped Learning Global Initiative, Dr. Fell Kurban is excited to join other researchers who are passionate about striving for excellence in flipped learning for the benefit of our students. Caroline’s particular interest lies in the development of quality assurance parameters as well as the implementation of professional development programs to assure efficacy and quality of flipped learning provision in institutions of higher education.	Raul Santiago is the director of the Master in Methodologies and Emerging Technologies Applied to Education. He is the author of Online Training: a Guide for University Teachers; The Flipped Classroom: How to Convert Schools into Learning Spaces; Mobile Learning: New Challenges and Realities in the Classroom; Inductive Methodologies: The Challenge of Teaching by Questioning and Challenges, Gamification: How to Motivate Your Students and Improve the Climate in the Classroom. He is currently taking part in several research projects about the Flipped Classroom Model in the Spanish language. He has been Academic Co-Director of The II European Congress on Flipped Learning. Other research fields include evaluation systems, education quality programs, online and blended learning, teachers training and educational technology.	Robyn Brinks Lockwood teaches courses in English listening, speaking, and writing for international graduate students at Standford University. She is also the education coordinator of the American Language and Culture undergraduate summer program. She is an active member of the international TESOL organization, serves as the ad-hoc consultant for the Publishing Professional Council, and is a past chair of the Materials Writers Interest Section. She is a frequent presenter at TESOL regional and international conferences. Robyn has edited and written numerous textbooks, online courses, video programs, and teacher’s ancillaries for second-language writing, speaking, and listening English courses and TOEFL preparation. Her publications include those of University of Michigan Press, Macmillan Education, Cambridge University Press, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill.	Dr. Gwo-Jen Hwang is currently a Chair Professor at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He is also Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the university. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan in 1991. Dr. Hwang serves as an editorial board member and a reviewer for more than 30 academic journals of educational technology and e-learning. He has also been the principal investigator of more than 100 research projects funded by Ministry of Science and Technology as well as Ministry of Education in Taiwan. He defined the term “seamless flipped learning” as “mobile technology-enhanced flipped classroom with effective learning strategies.” Since 2013, he is in charge of a national mobile learning promotion program in Taiwan to assist high school teachers to develop teaching plans using mobile technologies.