University of Toronto

Faculty Member, Department of Chemistry

Lecturer

Mississauga

About

My undergraduate work was in science and music. I worked as a classical musician in Toronto for a number of years, and then technological change (musical synthesizers) caused me to move into teaching. I worked for the Toronto Board of Education for fifteen years primarily as a science teacher, and then returned to academia to pursue a postgraduate degree. For the past few years, I have been working as a researcher with the Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology (IKIT), and now have a position at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus (UTM).

Under the general umbrella of computers in education, my specific interests focus on complexity theory in education. This expands into a series of related areas, including self-organizing systems, self-organized criticality, and network science in online educational environments. In particular, I have been working with the online knowledge building environment called Knowledge Forum™, created at OISE/UT. Much of my work on networks has been built into an evolving suite of analytic tools we are creating for the automated analysis of knowledge building behaviours in the Knowledge Forum™ environment.

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