His research interests include knowledge representation and database systems for the World Wide Web, information integration and ontology articulation and merging. His research interests and publications cover a broad range of topics from ontologies and metadata, to text mining, knowledge representation, knowledge management, and up to the engineering of the Semantic Web. The potential impact of the Web on learning is enormous. This workshop will bring together practitioners from both the academic and the commercial worlds to discuss the issues surrounding learning with the Web. The workshop will involve a series of round table discussions where participants will have time to explore a range of issues that will be finalized as position papers are reviewed.
More details are available from the workshop Web site.
He's been researching Online Learning for over ten years. His background is in Computer Science but has been more recently looking at the human factors that influence the effectiveness of Online Learning.