William Swart is a Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management at East Carolina University. He received his BS in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University and his PhD in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has held leadership positions in industry, including Corporate Vice President, and in the academia, including Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He is the recipient of a NASA/JFK Group Achievement Award, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Operations Research Practice Award, and the Achievement in Operations Research Medal from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS).

Dr. Nagib Callaos is the Founding President of a 32 years old Multi-Disciplinary Organization oriented to 1) solve real life problems which mostly require multi-disciplinary teams and 2) to synergistically relate all disciplinary and inter-disciplinary departments of the University Simon Bolivar with the public and the private sectors as well as with business and the Venezuelan society at large. He is also the Founding President of the IIIS and the Founding Editor in Chief of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI). He is former Dean of Research and Development of the University Simon Bolivar.

Professor Callaos was also the founding president of several organizations on research, development, and technological innovation, e.g. The Foundation of Research and Development of the University Simon Bolivar, the founding president of the Venezuelan Fund for Technological Innovations (created by presidential decree), which required the evaluation of projects from any discipline as well as technological innovations that required multi-disciplinary teams, The Venezuelan Association of Executives in Patents and Copyrights. As a professional, Dr. Callaos was for many years consultant in Information Systems in the largest corporations in Venezuela including its Central Bank. In this context he is the Founding president of a consulting 32 years old consulting firm in information systems and software engineering. His main research, academic, and professional activities, along almost 50 years were in the area of systemic Methodologies of Information System Development, Group Decision Support Systems, and Action-Research mainly via Operations Research. He tutored more than 100 undergraduate and graduate theses and produced more than 100 research papers and reflection articles. He has also edited, or co-edited many books, mostly conferences proceedings."

When e-learning is used as a substitute of face to face learning, it certainly might increase the efficiency of teaching processes but this might be being achieved lowering the educational effectiveness. But, when e-learning is used as complement to face to face classrooms then it certainly may increase the effectiveness of the educational process. To address this issue the notions of Education and Instruction should be differentiated. Instruction might be a necessary condition of education but is it a sufficient condition? Instruction is one of the means of education which should not be confused as its end. Do all professors of higher education know the difference between both notions? How we can find professors of higher education that did not reflect enough about the real meaning of the notion of “education”? What did Albert Einstein mean affirming that “Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”? Is Flipped learning more educational that e-learning used as substitute of face to face classrooms?