I am Aini Marina, a senior lecturer in Educational Psychology at the Department of Foundations of Education of the Faculty of Educational Studies at Universiti Putra Malaysia. I completed my graduate education – from MSc until post-doctoral training – at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA from 2009 until 2015 where I specialized in the area of Cognitive Sciences of Teaching and Learning. My current research interests include cognitive performance, collaborative learning, argumentation and reasoning, innovative teaching and learning in higher education, language learning and early literacy development among underserved populations.