Meet our Team

Christopher Hromalik is Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of Spanish and French in the World Languages Department at Onondaga Community College. He is also the Chair of the ACTFL Distance Learning Special Interest Group. He has been invited to present on the use of digital technology in the language classroom on numerous occasions since 2007 and he has been a regular presenter for the Basic Online Language Design and Delivery (BOLDD) workshops since 2015. From 2016-2019, he served as the Faculty Coordinator and lead Instructional Designer for the Universal Design for Learning Academy, which was funded as part of the Onondaga Pathways to Careers project through a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy. He has published on his work with the Universal Design for Learning Academy and he has given presentations and conducted trainings for faculty, staff, and administrators on topics such as how to create accessible digital instructional materials and how to apply the Universal Design for Learning framework.

Heng Luo is an Associate Professor at School of Educational Information Technology in Central China Normal University. He received his Ph.D. in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation from Syracuse University and worked as a research associate at the Pennsylvania State University before accepting his current position in China. He has been an active member in academic organizations such as AECT, AERA and Online Learning Consortium with journal articles and conference papers published in their journals and conference proceedings. As the Principle Investigator, he has led and is leading several research projects in both China and the U.S. with a combined grant funding over $50k. His research efforts have been recognized with awards such as All-University Doctoral Prize given by Syracuse University and Divisional Outstanding Research Paper Award given by AECT.

Nick Smith is a professor of instructional design, development, and evaluation. Smith has served on numerous editorial boards, including as past editor-in-chief of New Directions for Program Evaluation. He has also edited such volumes as Metaphors for Evaluation: Sources of New Methods; New Techniques for Evaluation; Communication Strategies in Evaluation; and Varieties of Investigative Evaluation. In 2004, he served as president of the American Evaluation Association.