Mike Sharples
Mike Sharples | |
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| Born | 14 December 1952 Sale, England |
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| Occupation | Technologist |
| Known for | human-centred design, evaluation of technologies of learning, application of studies of human cognition and social interaction to the design of novel interactive systems |
Michael Sharples (born 14 December 1952 in Sale, England) is a British academic working in educational technology. He is an Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University.[1]
Background
[edit | edit source]Sharples graduated from St. Andrews University in 1976 with a BSc. Hons in Computational Science, then moved to the Dept of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh as a post graduate student. His PhD thesis was on the topic of Cognition, Computers and Creative Writing.[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]Sharples held various academic appointments before becoming director for the Centre for Educational Technology and Distance Learning at the University of Birmingham[3] and later professor of learning sciences and Director of Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Nottingham.[4]
Research
[edit | edit source]Sharples' research focus is on adapting and developing new technology and socio-technical systems to facilitate learning, such as the use of mobile devices.[3]
In 2022 he published the book Story Machines with Rafael Pérez y Pérez.[5] The book is about the history of story-generating machines. A review of the book in Science described it as "a readable, engaging, and instructive introduction to the mechanisms according to which computers have been made to produce “stories".[6]
Books
[edit | edit source]- Sharples, M. (1985) Cognition, Computers and Creative Writing, Chichester: Ellis Horwood.
- Sharples, M., Hogg, D., Hutchison, C., Torrance, S., Young, D. (1989) Computers and Thought: a Practical Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. MIT Press. 406 pp.
- Sharples, M. (ed.)(1993) Computer Supported Collaborative Writing. Springer-Verlag.
- Sharples, M. & van der Geest, T. (eds.)(1996) The New Writing Environment: Writers at Work in a World of Technology. Springer-Verlag.
- Sharples, M. (1999) How We Write: Writing as Creative Design. London: Routledge.
- Littleton, K., Scanlon, E. & Sharples, M. (eds.)(2012) Orchestrating Inquiry Learning. Routledge. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
References
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External links
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