This site explores a number of topics, including my research into the role of peer student thought-leaders in guiding community learning. In my research work, I developed an analytical framework by which patterns of adaptive role-behaviors in online learning communities could be related to peer learner influence. The framework identified eight key role-behaviors of social engagement in a community of inquiry, ranging in levels of influence from none (vicarious learner), through simple acknowledgement of others contributions, to “high impact” behaviors through which iterative collaborative knowledge building is enacted (initiator, facilitator and complicator role-behaviors).

My career has spanned a number of roles:

• I spent eight years working for the Metropolitan Police in London UK, where I was often called on as a expert witness in cases involving technology
• I worked as an IT consultant for various software houses, developing software applications and computer architecture
• I then built on my undergraduate degree in psychology, obtaining an MSc in Occupational Psychology and serving as HCI Evaluation Specialist for various human-centered learning technology projects at a time when the domain was still under development.