Emmy Vrieling is Associate Professor of Teachers’ Professional Development in Social Learning and Regulation of Learning at the Open Universiteit (the Netherlands). Her work concentrates on exploring social learning configurations as well as (socially shared) regulation of learning processes that facilitate professional development in educational institutes (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3479-7831). Her research addresses social learning, social presence, social media, (socially shared) regulation of learning,social learning configurations, metacognition, and motivation. She has published and presented her research in national and international research journals, books and conferences. Emmy is also Staff Member of the Dutch InteruniversityCenter for Educational Research and Editorial Board Member of the DutchAssociation for Teacher Educators.