Professor Ference Marton is Professor of Education at Göteborg University, Sweden. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong 1998 - 2001. Currently he is Honorary Professor at HKU and Advisory Professor at The Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is an expert in the field of student learning and is well known for his work on surface and deep approaches to learning, and on students’ conceptions of learning, as well as for developing the phenomenographic approach to the study of student’s experience of learning and the theory of variation.

Professor Gu Lingyuan is the Vice Director of Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences. He is also Researcher and Professor in East China Normal University. He has presided over the Mathematics Education Reform Experiment in Qingpu County of Shanghai city for 15 years and has done 10 years of follow-up research. He has been awarded many times as Shanghai Municipal and China National “Model Worker” and once won the recipient of the “National 5.1 Labor Medal” and the first batch of “Great Contributor to Shanghai Education”. He is now sitting in numerous national councils and committees of education research, curriculum reform, and teacher education. Some of his major publications are “Learn to Teach”, “Theory of Teaching Experiment”, “Revelation from Qingpu Experiment”, “Action and Interpretation of Teaching Reform” etc, he is also a chief editor of “Math Education Inquiring for 21 st Century”, “ Basic School for Future” and others.