Catherine Regina Heil
http://www.katie-heil.com

Teachers College, Columbia University
United States

Catherine is a recent M.A. Applied Linguistics graduate from Columbia University Teachers College. Her research interests include language assessment, cognitive linguistics, computer-assisted language learning, and pragmatics. She taught ESL for several years both in the United States and overseas. http://katie-heil.com

Jason S. Wu
Teachers College, Columbia University
United States

Jason Wu is a Ph.D. candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is currently a Doctoral Research Fellow with the Harlem Schools Partnership for STEM Education, and was formerly a bilingual elementary teacher. His research interests include the use of games in education, bilingual education, and English language learners.

Joey J. Lee
Teachers College, Columbia University
United States

Joey J. Lee is Research Assistant Professor of Technology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also a Director of the Games Research Lab at TC, leading the Real-World Impact Games Lab. He designs, develops and studies games and game-like experiences for education and social impact. His projects include both digital and non-digital games for climate change education, science education, cross-cultural education and language learning.

Torben Schmidt
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
United States

Dr. Torben Schmidt is Professor of English Didactics at the Institute of English Studies at Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany. His main fields of research are computer-assisted language learning, educational games, project work, and the teaching of listening and speaking skills in the English as a foreign language classroom.