Steve McCarty was born in Boston and specialized in Japan at the University of Hawaii. He was a regular faculty member and full Professor in Japan from 1985-2015. He currently lectures for Osaka Jogakuin University, Kansai University, KIC Graduate School of IT, and (since 2004) the Japanese government international agency JICA. Since 1998 he has been the elected President of ... Read morethe academic NGO World Association for Online Education. Dr. Hiroyuki Obari is a Professor at the Aoyama Gakuin University College of Economics, and part-time Lecturer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology graduate school and Waseda University Faculty of Law. He obtained his MA in TESOL from Columbia University and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tsukuba. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford in 1998-1999 and 2007-2008.  Takeshi Sato is an Associate Professor at the Division of Language and Culture Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. He holds MA degrees in TESOL from Keio University and the Institute of Education (London). His academic interests include L2 vocabulary acquisition, computer & mobile-assisted language learning, and English as a Lingua Franca pedagogy. He has published articles in TESOL Quarterly, ReCALL, Asian EFL Journal, etc. Show Less