**About the Editor**

#### **Palitha Edirisingha**

Palitha Edirisingha is an Associate Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Palitha's research, teaching and PhD supervision interests are on digital technologies and their application to teaching and learning in international contexts. He also carries out research concerning international education in distance learning contexts. He leads three distance learning programmes at the University of Leicester: International PGCE, MA International Education, and Post-Graduate Certificate in Learning Technologies.

He has published on topics related to podcasting, mobile learning, virtual worlds, digital literacy, and open and distance education in developing countries. He conducts learning technology workshops for academic staff and has been involved in developing Open Educational Resources (OERs) for the University of Leicester OER repository.

Palitha is also an editorial board member of the Journal "Interactive Learning Environments". "Trends in Higher Education", and "Journal of Studies and Research on Technological Education". He is a topic board member of the journal "Education Sciences".
