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Jesús Gabalán Coello: Jesus Gabalan Coello studied Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente in Cali - Colombia. He has a Master in Industrial Engineering at the Universidad del Valle in Cali - Colombia and a PhD in measure and evaluation in education at the Université de Montréal in Montréal - Canada. Professor Gabalán has participated as a consultant and academic pair, in quality assurance processes with the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, the Colombian Institute for Education Evaluation, COLCIENCIAS and CNA. He has published several papers and scientific articles nationally and internationally, on measurement and evaluation of programs and institutions. He has been professor of quantitative methods, statistics, operations research and evaluation in graduate and undergraduate programs; as well as training of university teachers in fields: assessment, evaluation and research at national and international contexts.



Michel Laurier: PhD in Curriculum from the University of Toronto. He works in the field of measurement and evaluation, and is particularly interested in the development of instruments to assess language competence. He worked in the development of policies on learning assessment. He also studied the evolution of higher education programs and the use of information and communication technologies in learning assessment. He published several articles and books in this field. He has been professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Montréal in Canada. He is now at the University of Ottawa where he has been Dean and Vice-President Academic.



Fredy Eduardo Vásquez-Rizo: Social Communicator-Journalist from the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente-UAO, Colombia; Master in Information Sciences and Knowledge Management from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey -Itesm, Mexico, and PhD student in Information and Communication Management in Organizations from the University