Peter Scott

Dr Peter Scott is Director of the Knowledge Media Institute (KMI) of the UK Open University - and also Head of the Centre for New Media at KMI.

Peter's research group prototypes the application of new technologies and media to learning at all levels. Peter's current research interests range widely across knowledge and media research. Three key threads at the moment are: tele-presence; streaming media systems; and ubiquity. He has a BA (1983) and PhD (1987) in Psychology.

He is also currently serving as the President of the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning (EATEL).

Before joining the Open University in 1995, Dr Scott lectured in Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Sheffield. He has a textbook in each of these subjects, with a range of associated teaching multimedia support applications. He joined the OU to help launch the innovative Knowledge Media research agenda. In this new field he has over 15 recent major research grants from the UK EPSRC, Department of Health and Department for Education and Science. Recent EU grants include the successful EU Network of Excellence, Prolearn, where he serves on the executive board. The Prolearn network also supports two of Peter’s hottest current technology developments: Hexagon and FlashMeeting. The FlashMeeting research into effective live and online events is also now a core element of the Open University's OpenLearn LabSpace which was launched in October 2006. Dr Scott has a strong portfolio of over 40 conventional research publications in this field. Furthermore, with the world wide web as the primary source of research excellence in his field, he has dozens of major websites to his credit.

Dr Scott is regularly a keynote speaker at international research conferences, from Netties in Oulu, Finland; Learning Management Congress Munich, Germany; the K2 Summit in Amsterdam, Holland; to Tedis in Venice, Italy. This year, 2006, he was an invited speaker at EdMedia in Florida, USA and is a keynote speaker at the i-Know congress, Graz Austria. One recent prestigious invitation was May 2001 for the plenary keynote presentation to the newly established "learning track" at WWW10 - The tenth international world-wide-web conference, in Hong Kong.

In the policy arena, Dr Scott's knowledge media and open learning research is highly valued; in recent years he has been invited to consultations at both the UK's House of Commons and the House of Lords. He is also regularly invited to corporate focused events such as recent invitations to Shell, AT&T, BP Amoco and ICL. Dr Scott is a founding director of WebSymposia Ltd, an internet multimedia webcasting company.

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