Beatrice A. Boateng is an Assistant Professor in the department of pediatrics, College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She is also the co-director of faculty development in the department of pediatrics. She holds a doctorate from the Instructional Technology program, College of Education at Ohio University. Beatrice's research interest is in the millennials, instructional technology in medical education and open source tools for education. She has authored articles, book chapters, and a book, on technology applications in rural schools.

A special thanks to Kwasi Boateng for his support throughout the writing of this book.

Kwasi Boateng is an Assistant Professor at the School of Mass Communication at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has a doctorate from The School of Media Arts and Studies (formerly the School of Telecommunications); Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University. Kwasi has research interest in new technologies in electronic communication and open source tools for online communication. He has authored various articles, book chapters, and a book on electronic media. He teaches courses on web design, motion graphics, media and culture, and the Internet regulation and policy. He has worked with students to build websites for non-profit organizations by using open source content management systems, and organizes workshops to introduce high and middle school students to open source tools for online communication.

I am appreciative of the support of Beatrice Boateng, my spouse and co-author of this book. Beatrice has been very instrumental in the writing of this book with her probing questions and her knack for getting things done.