JUDITH E. MILLER is Director of Educational development, Technology, and Assessment, and Professor of Biology and Biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She has published and presented extensively in the areas of cooperative learning and educational productivity. She received the Outstanding Undergraduate Science Teacher award from the Society for College Science teachers and Kendall-Hunt Publishers in 1997.

JAMES E. GROCCIA is Director of the Program for Excellence in Teaching Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, and a member of the Graduate faculty in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His teaching and research interests, center on student-assisted learning, college teaching, educational innovation and productivity, and cross-cultural psychology.

MARILYN S. MILLER is Assistant Director of the Program for Excellence in Teaching, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has presented nationally on issues of communication across linguistic and cultural lines, and the role of inactive learning in compensating for linguistic difficulties of foreign instructors and students.