George D. MagoulasGeorge Magoulas is Professor of Computer Science and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a member of the London Knowledge Lab (www.lkl.ac.u). The main thrust of his work is in the development of intelligent techniques for learner modelling and personalised learning environments. He was an invited speaker at the Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems 2003 (AH2003), part of the 9th International Conference on User Modeling (UM'2003), and keynote speaker at the International e-Learning Forum 2007, Tokyo, Japan. He has secured 1.2m+ GBP funding from UK funding agencies as Principal Investigator or co-Investigator of research and development projects that have attracted a total of 3.5m+ GBP in competitive external funding. Within these and other projects he has worked closely with partners active in various areas of information technology, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and lifelong learning, and was involved in collaborations with public bodies, such as the Linking London Lifelong Learning Network , the UCAS and the learndirect . He was co-editor of the books: “Adaptable and Adaptive Hypermedia Systems” (2005) and “Advances in Web-based Education: Personalized Learning Environments” (2006). George is currently working with practising teachers to research, and co-construct, an interactive Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) to scaffold teachers’ decision-making from basic planning to creative TEL design. He is leading the research on the intelligent components of the LDSE and the design and implementation of the interactive environment. Through an iterative research-design process the LDSE team hopes to address some important challenges in the area of learning design and build the means by which the teaching community can collaborate further on how best to deploy TEL. Read More Read Less