Ali
Jafari
Director
CyberLab, Professor of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue
University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Ali Jafari has worked in the fields of Information Technology and Multimedia
since 1985 as a software designer, system engineer, technology architect,
professor and researcher. He has worked in engineering, administrative and
academic positions at the Indiana University
Bloomington and IUPUI campuses. Dr.
Jafari has presented at more than 100 national and international conferences
and published in professional and scholarly journals on a variety of subjects
in information technology as it relates to teaching and learning. Dr. Jafari's
research interests include interface design, agent-based learning environments,
intelligent user interfaces and most recently Internet portals and electronic
portfilios. Dr. Jafari has initiated, directed and co-developed several major
research and development projects including the Interactive
Multimedia Distribution System (1997), the Oncourse
enterprise course management system (1999) and the ANGEL
Course Management Software and Portal environment (2000). He is the co-founder
of the CyberLearning Labs Inc.
Professor Jafari's new research and development project is electronic portfolios,
a new teaching and learning portal environment to be built by a consortium
of higher education institutions. For this purpose he has initiated and established
the ePortConsortium.
Ali Jafari is currently Director of the IUPUI CyberLab
and Professor of Computer Technology
in the School of Engineering and Technology
at IUPUI
