Agnieszka (Aga) Palalas is an associate professor of open, digital, and distance education at Athabasca University, the Canadian online university, and director of the MEd and EdD programs. Drawing from over twenty-five years of experience as a face-to-face and online educator, instructional designer, and an IT programmer, combined with her two-decade-long mindfulness practice, her scholarly interests lie in the area of mindfulness in online learning, digital well-being, and contemplative pedagogy and how these can be integrated into instructional design of online and blended learning.



