Jon Dron

Biography

2015 Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University 2007 - 2015 Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University 2006 - 2007 Principal Lecturer (Head of Learning Environments), School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences University of Brighton, UK 2001 ? 2006 Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences University of Brighton, UK 1999 - 2001 Senior Lecturer, School of Information Management, University of Brighton, UK 1997 - 1999 Lecturer, School of Information Management, University of Brighton, UK 1995 - 1997 Academic Support Manager, Faculty of IT, University of Brighton, UK

Research Interest

In broad terms, my main research interests lie in how people can help people to learn. Notably, I care a lot about how crowds can teach, and how to teach crowds. Following from that, I am interested in the distributed nature of the teaching role, the nature of technological systems, and the ways in which structure influences behaviour (and in building systems in which behaviour influences structure). I am particularly interested in motivation, including the ways that systems and methods can positively or negatively affect it. But, to be honest, there is not much in the world of learning and technology that does not interest me! I am as interested in pedagogies and the scholarship of learning and teaching as I am in programming tools and building systems, and I care just as much about systemic issues, psychological issues, sociological issues, and philosophical concerns.