Researchers

Dr. Norm Friesen is Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Friesen has been developing and studying Web technologies in educational contexts since 1995, and is the principal investigator in the "learningspaces.org" project. Dr. Friesen has previously worked as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, and as an adjunct faculty member at Athabasca University and the University of Toronto, and most recently as a visiting scholar at the Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria.

 

 
Krista Poscente is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Technology at the University of Calgary and a researcher with the Galileo Education Network http://www.galileo.org/index.html. Krista received her Master's degree in Distance Education from Athabasca University where she simultaneously learned and experienced distance education theory. Krista has worked as a Multimedia Instructional Designer for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, and web communications specialist for the Canadian Association of Distance Education.
Grace Chung is a PhD Candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Currently in the thesis stage of her dissertation, Grace is investigating the decision-making process of the design of a monorail system in Seattle, Washington. Her research revolves around issues of technical communication, technology studies, and mixed methods. In addition, Grace presently works as a researcher on projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

 
Darryl Cressman is a PhD student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.   Darryl's involvement with the Learning Spaces Project is focused on experiential dimensions of educational technology use.   Darryl is also interested in investigating communications technology from a position informed by both communication studies and technology studies.
Ted Hamilton is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He has been studying debates around educational technologies and the transformation of higher education and the university for five years. His dissertation approaches the social and institutional aspects of educational technologies from perspectives in the sociology and philosophy of technology. He is particularly interested in the ways in which educational technologies, through their embedding in dynamic and often conflictual social contexts, come to embody different pedagogical, professional, institutional, or economic values and assumptions.