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I am a Professor of Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology

I have a variety of professional interests including:

• intelligent tutoring systems
• structural knowledge
• instructional design theory
• performance support systems
• interactive courseware design
• knowledge management
• human cognition

Course Outlines and Materials for a few IT Courses

• Fundamentals of Instructional Technology
• Interactive Courseware
• Performance Support System Design

Projects and Papers

• Operations and Strategy Learning in Edutainment Interfaces Paper presented at AACE Ed-Media Conference, Lugano Switzerland, 2004.
• The Conversational Diagnostic AgentPaper presented at AACE Ed-Media Conference, Lugano Switzerland, 2004.
• The Knowledge Warehouse: Reusable Knowledge Components (Published in Performance Improvement Quarterly, Vol 12, No. 3, 1999)
• Interactivity Demystified: A Structural Definition for Online Learning and Intelligent CBT (Published in Educational Technology, August 2000)
• Factors Contributing to Ideal Instructional Interactivity (Accepted to EDMEDIA 2001, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Tempere, Finland. Co-authored with Paul Hyman)
• The Intelligent Test ToolKit (Provost's Productivity Grant: Final Report)
A similar paper was presented at EDMEDIA 1999, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Seattle Washington.