Goran Trajkovski Ph.D., MSML, MSCS, MBA, currently serves as a Senior Lead College Compliance Advisor at Western Governors University. He specializes in program, courseware, and assessmentware design and development for high-demand computing and data-science disciplines, and in the regulatory and accreditation processes in the higher education domain. He has been involved in the eLearning movement since its inception, through the conceptualization, development, and deployment of more than 35 undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of disciplines for online delivery and leading the development of more than 300 online courses. During his three decades in Higher Education, he has served in a variety of instructional and administration roles, including Dean of the School of Computer Information Systems at Virginia International University, Executive Director of Adult and Graduate Studies at Marian University, and Director of Product Strategy and Development at Laureate Education, Inc.
Marylee Demeter possesses administrative and academic experience in higher education serving in assessment leadership and adjunct positions at Rutgers University and Middlesex County College. She championed efforts as Chair of the Professional Development Committee for the Student Affairs Assessment Leaders, where she collaboratively developed the MOOC “Developing and Leading Assessment in Student Affairs.” She currently serves as a Senior Assessment Developer at Western Governors University.
Heather Hayes, PhD, is a psychometrician for the Colleges of Information Technology and Business at Western Governors University. She has been involved in the construction and validation of both cognitive ability and personality assessments for over 20 years. Her research interests center on the conjoint use of cognitive theory and Item Response Theory to aid in the construct validation of test scores as well as to improve the test experience itself through computer adaptive testing and automatic item generation. Her current focus is application of this line of research to developing and validating educational tests for online, competency-based education programs.