Ramesh Sharma , Ph.D., is currently working as Director of Human Resource Development Centre at Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi, India. Previously he has served as an Associate Professor of Educational Technology and Learning Resources in the Educational Technology Unit at Wawasan Open University, Malaysia; Visiting Professor at University of Fiji, Fiji; Commonwealth of Learning as Director of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, New Delhi; Indira Gandhi National Open University, India; and University of Guyana, Guyana, South America. He is the co-Editor of the 'Asian Journal of Distance Education'. In addition, he has been associated with peer reviewed journals as Reviewer, Editor and Editorial Advisory Board member in the field of Open and Distance Learning such as “Distance Education”, ” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL)”, “International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET)”, and “Indian Journal of Open Learning (IJOL)”. He is also on the Editorial Advisory Board and an author for the “Encyclopedia of Distance Learning (4 volumes), 2005” ( ). Hakan Yıldırım is a senior lecturer at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Türkiye. He received his B.A. in Computer Education and Instructional Technology from Anadolu University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Distance Education at Anadolu University respectively in 2017 and 2023. His research interests include blockchain technology, human-computer interaction, and learning management systems.