Pierre Dillenbourg
Former teacher in elementary school, Pierre Dillenbourg graduated in educational science (University of Mons, B).
He started his research on learning technologies in 1984. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster (UK), in the domain of artificial intelligence applications for educational software. He has been director of TECFA, the educational technology unit at the University of Geneva.
He joined EPFL in November 2002. His current interests concern computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL): the design and experimentation of interactive furniture that sustain teamwork; the effects of awareness tools on group performance and mutual modeling; the authoring of CSCL scripts; the use of eye tracking method for predicting interaction patterns; etc.
P. Dillenbourg has been consultant consulting for large companies in Switzerland and Europe. He is the editor of the Kluwer Series Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning and former president of the International Society for Learning Sciences.
As director of CRAFT, the teacher serivce unit, Pierre Dillenbourg is very much involved in the training policy of EPFL, within the Vice-Presidency for Academic Affairs.
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