Jin-Gon Shon received a B.Sc. in mathematics and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Since 1991, he has been with the Department of Computer Science, Korea National Open University (KNOU). He was a Visiting Professor in 1997 at State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, USA. After serving as the Head of the Information & Computer Center and the Head of the e-Learning Center, Professor Shon established the Department of e-Learning, the first master's program of e-Learning in Korea, and served as the Chair of the Department until 2010. For two years after that, he worked for KNOU as Director of the Digital Media Center, where all of KNOU e-learning contents and TV programs are produced. His research interests are computer networks, distributed computing, and ITLET (Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training) He has been a member of the Korean Delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36 since 2000. He has made presentations at many conferences, and he won the Best Paper Award (Gold Medal) in the 24th AAOU Annual Conference in 2010. He has also published over 30 scholarly articles in noted journals and written several books on computer science and e-learning.