A Little Personal History

I have been working in the field of AI in Education since 1981, obtaining my PhD from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, the University of Edinburgh in 1987 under the supervision of Professor Jim Howe.

I worked (in various capacities) on several research projects: Learning Engineering Science in Schools (1981/82); Methods of Teaching Prolog (1984/85); Evaluating Prolog Environments (1985/88); Computer Aided Recognition of Misconceptions about Simple Electrical Circuits (1989/1992); and the Construction and Evaluation of a Prolog Techniques Editor (1991/94).

After approximately twelve years in Edinburgh, I moved to the Computing Department, Lancaster University in October 1993.

I am now working with people at HCRC, the University of Edinburgh on the SIGNAL project (Specificity of Information in Graphics and Natural Language) which finishes at the end of 1994, and folk at the Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham and QMW on the "UK Distributed Virtual Laboratory" project.

I am Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Advanced Learning Technologies (CSALT) here at Lancaster. I am also an associate member of LERANT (European Research Laboratory on Learning and New Technologies) linking researchers at: equipe COAST (COmmunication et Appropriation des Savoirs scientifiques et Techniques), Lyon; CNRS-IRPEACS, Lyon; and the DIFF (Deutsches Institut fur Fernstudien), University of Tuebingen, Germany.



Some Colleagues

A selection of people that I am working with at the moment.


Richard Cox: Research Fellow on the SIGNAL Project at the Human Communications Research Centre, the University of Edinburgh, and developing the

switchER environment.

Judith Good: Ph.D. Student at Department of Artificial Intelligence, the University of Edinburgh

Susan Bull: Ph.D. Student at Department of Artificial Intelligence, the University of Edinburgh

Normaziah Aziz: Ph.D. Student at Department of Artificial Intelligence, the University of Edinburgh

David Duncan: Ph.D. Student at Computer Studies Department, Napier University

Mark Burton: Ph.D. Student at Computing Department, Lancaster University

A picture of him:

Tamsin Treasure-Jones: Ph.D. Student at Computing Department, Lancaster University

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