Mary Cooch is the author of Moodle 2.0 First Look and Moodle 1.9 For Teaching 7-14 Year Olds, also published by Packt Publishing. A languages and geography teacher for 25 years, Mary is based at Our Lady's High School, Preston, Lancashire, UK, but now spends part of her working week traveling Europe showing others how to make the most of this popular Virtual Learning Environment. Known online as the moodlefairy, Mary runs a blog on www.moodleblog.org and may be contacted for consultation via the training center based in her school, www.ourlearning.co.uk.
Kyle Goslin is a researcher and Ph.D. student at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin and has been researching and developing Moodle plug-ins and all things e-learning for the last number of years. Kyle's main areas of research are e-learning, user interaction, and enriching e-learning environments.
You can find his website and blog at http://www.kylegoslin.ie.
Susan Smith Nash is currently Director of Education and Professional Development for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma. She was associate dean for graduate programs at Excelsior College (Albany, NY). Previous to that, she was online courses manager at Institute for Exploration and Development Geosciences, and director of curriculum development for the College of Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, where she developed a degree program curriculum for online courses. She also developed interfaces for courses as well as administrative and procedural support, support programmers, protocol and training manuals, and marketing approaches. She obtained her Ph.D. and M.A. in English and a B.S. in Geology from the University of Oklahoma. Nash blogs at E-Learning Queen (http://www.elearningqueen.com) and E-Learners (http://www.elearner.com), and has written articles and chapters on mobile learning, poetics, contemporary culture, and e-learning for numerous publications, including Trends and issues in instructional design and technology (3rd ed.), Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications, Talisman, Press1, International Journal of Learning Objects, GHR, World Literature, and Gargoyle. Her latest books include Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques (Packt Publishing, 2010), E-Learners Survival Guide (Texture Press, 2009), and Klub Dobrih Dejanj (2008).